From 612e8e9350fd19cae6900cf36ea0c6892d1a0dca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:28:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking The alternatives code checks only the first byte whether it is a NOP, but with NOPs in front of the payload and having actual instructions after it breaks the "optimized' test. Make sure to scan all bytes before deciding to optimize the NOPs in there. Reported-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tom Lendacky Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Lutomirski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Paul Turner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180110112815.mgciyf5acwacphkq@pd.tnic --- arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index 3344d3382e91..e0b97e4d1db5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -344,9 +344,12 @@ done: static void __init_or_module noinline optimize_nops(struct alt_instr *a, u8 *instr) { unsigned long flags; + int i; - if (instr[0] != 0x90) - return; + for (i = 0; i < a->padlen; i++) { + if (instr[i] != 0x90) + return; + } local_irq_save(flags); add_nops(instr + (a->instrlen - a->padlen), a->padlen); -- 2.30.2