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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: x86@kernel.org, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>,
	seanjc@google.com
Subject: [RFC][PATCH] x86,static_call: Fix __static_call_return0 for i386
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 21:44:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220318204419.GT8939@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)


Paolo reported that the instruction sequence that is used to replace:

    call __static_call_return0

namely:

    66 66 48 31 c0	data16 data16 xor %rax,%rax

decodes to something else on i386, namely:

    66 66 48		data16 dec %ax
    31 c0		xor    %eax,%eax

Which is a nonsensical sequence that happens to have the same outcome.
*However* an important distinction is that it consists of 2
instructions which is a problem when it needs to be overwriten with a
regular call instruction again.

As such, replace the instruction with something that is a 5 byte single
instruction and decodes the same on both i386 and x86_64.

Fixes: 3f2a8fc4b15d ("static_call/x86: Add __static_call_return0()")
Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/static_call.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/static_call.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/static_call.c
@@ -12,10 +12,9 @@ enum insn_type {
 };
 
 /*
- * data16 data16 xorq %rax, %rax - a single 5 byte instruction that clears %rax
- * The REX.W cancels the effect of any data16.
+ * cs cs cs xorl %eax, %eax - a single 5 byte instruction that clears %[er]ax
  */
-static const u8 xor5rax[] = { 0x66, 0x66, 0x48, 0x31, 0xc0 };
+static const u8 xor5rax[] = { 0x2e, 0x2e, 0x2e, 0x31, 0xc0 };
 
 static const u8 retinsn[] = { RET_INSN_OPCODE, 0xcc, 0xcc, 0xcc, 0xcc };
 

             reply	other threads:[~2022-03-18 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-18 20:44 Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2022-04-05  8:29 ` [tip: locking/urgent] x86,static_call: Fix __static_call_return0 for i386 tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra

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