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Commit 41f4ff9f authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/alternatives: Sync core before enabling interrupts

commit 3ea1704a upstream.

text_poke_early() does:

   local_irq_save(flags);
   memcpy(addr, opcode, len);
   local_irq_restore(flags);
   sync_core();

That's not really correct because the synchronization should happen before
interrupts are re-enabled to ensure that a pending interrupt observes the
complete update of the opcodes.

It's not entirely clear whether the interrupt entry provides enough
serialization already, but moving the sync_core() invocation into interrupt
disabled region does no harm and is obviously correct.

Fixes: 6fffacb3

 ("x86/alternatives, jumplabel: Use text_poke_early() before mm_init()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZT6narvE%2BLxX%2B7Be@windriver.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 42537915
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