x86/alternatives: Make optimize_nops() interrupt safe and synced
Richard reported the following crash: [ 0.036000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 55501e06 [ 0.036000] IP: [<c0aae48b>] common_interrupt+0xb/0x38 [ 0.036000] Call Trace: [ 0.036000] [<c0409c80>] ? add_nops+0x90/0xa0 [ 0.036000] [<c040a054>] apply_alternatives+0x274/0x630 Chuck decoded: " 0: 8d 90 90 83 04 24 lea 0x24048390(%eax),%edx 6: 80 fc 0f cmp $0xf,%ah 9: a8 0f test $0xf,%al >> b: a0 06 1e 50 55 mov 0x55501e06,%al 10: 57 push %edi 11: 56 push %esi Interrupt 0x30 occurred while the alternatives code was replacing the initial 0x90,0x90,0x90 NOPs (from the ASM_CLAC macro) with the optimized version, 0x8d,0x76,0x00. Only the first byte has been replaced so far, and it makes a mess out of the insn decoding." optimize_nops() is buggy in two aspects: - It's not disabling interrupts across the modification - It's lacking a sync_core() call Add both. Fixes: 4fd4b6e5 'x86/alternatives: Use optimized NOPs for padding' Reported-and-tested-by: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1509031232340.15006@nanos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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