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Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2015 02:41:04 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	dvlasenk@...hat.com, luto@...capital.net, bp@...en8.de,
	mingo@...nel.org, brgerst@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bp@...e.de
Subject: [tip:x86/asm] x86/alternatives: Guard NOPs optimization

Commit-ID:  69df353ff305805fc16082d0c5bfa6e20fa8b863
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/69df353ff305805fc16082d0c5bfa6e20fa8b863
Author:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
AuthorDate: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 23:07:42 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 09:24:09 +0200

x86/alternatives: Guard NOPs optimization

Take a look at the first instruction byte before optimizing the NOP -
there might be something else there already, like the ALTERNATIVE_2()
in rdtsc_barrier() which NOPs out on AMD even though we just
patched in an MFENCE.

This happens because the alternatives sees X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
AMD CPUs set it, we patch in the MFENCE and right afterwards it sees
X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC which AMD CPUs don't set and we blindly
optimize the NOP.

Checking whether at least the first byte is 0x90 prevents that.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428181662-18020-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 7c4ad00..aef6531 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ done:
 
 static void __init_or_module optimize_nops(struct alt_instr *a, u8 *instr)
 {
+	if (instr[0] != 0x90)
+		return;
+
 	add_nops(instr + (a->instrlen - a->padlen), a->padlen);
 
 	DUMP_BYTES(instr, a->instrlen, "%p: [%d:%d) optimized NOPs: ",
--
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