linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/24] x86,vmx: Fix indirect call

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Message-ID: <20180125093623.GY2228@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:36:23 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@...el.com>,
        Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/24] x86,vmx: Fix indirect call

Subject: x86,vmx: Fix indirect call
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Date: Tue Jan 23 14:10:19 CET 2018

Replace indirect call with CALL_NOSPEC.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
---
 - now with THUNK_TARGET()

 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -9129,14 +9129,14 @@ static void vmx_handle_external_intr(str
 #endif
 			"pushf\n\t"
 			__ASM_SIZE(push) " $%c[cs]\n\t"
-			"call *%[entry]\n\t"
+			CALL_NOSPEC
 			:
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 			[sp]"=&r"(tmp),
 #endif
 			ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT
 			:
-			[entry]"r"(entry),
+			THUNK_TARGET(entry),
 			[ss]"i"(__KERNEL_DS),
 			[cs]"i"(__KERNEL_CS)
 			);