x86/alternatives: Disable interrupts and sync when optimizing NOPs in place
commit 2dc41961 upstream. apply_alternatives() treats alternatives with the ALT_FLAG_NOT flag set special as it optimizes the existing NOPs in place. Unfortunately, this happens with interrupts enabled and does not provide any form of core synchronization. So an interrupt hitting in the middle of the update and using the affected code path will observe a half updated NOP and crash and burn. The following 3 NOP sequence was observed to expose this crash halfway reliably under QEMU 32bit: 0x90 0x90 0x90 which is replaced by the optimized 3 byte NOP: 0x8d 0x76 0x00 So an interrupt can observe: 1) 0x90 0x90 0x90 nop nop nop 2) 0x8d 0x90 0x90 undefined 3) 0x8d 0x76 0x90 lea -0x70(%esi),%esi 4) 0x8d 0x76 0x00 lea 0x0(%esi),%esi Where only #1 and #4 are true NOPs. The same problem exists for 64bit obviously. Disable interrupts around this NOP optimization and invoke sync_core() before re-enabling them. Fixes: 270a69c4 ("x86/alternative: Support relocations in alternatives") Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZT6narvE%2BLxX%2B7Be@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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