From: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Fix ALTERNATIVE_2 padding generation properly
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:27:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150407092708.GA25397@chrystal.uk.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150404133443.GE21152@pd.tnic>
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 03:34:43PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
> Quentin caught a corner case with the generation of instruction padding
> in the ALTERNATIVE_2 macro: if len(orig_insn) < len(alt1) < len(alt2),
> then not enough padding gets added and that is not good(tm) as we could
> overwrite the beginning of the next instruction.
>
FWIW, this patch looks good to me (I have not tested it though).
Thanks!
Quentin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-07 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-02 13:11 [PATCH] x86/xsave: Robustify and merge macros Borislav Petkov
2015-04-02 15:52 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-02 16:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-02 16:33 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-02 16:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-03 14:06 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-03 14:14 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-03 15:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-03 15:40 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-03 17:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-03 17:33 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-03 17:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-03 20:42 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-04 7:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-04 8:36 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-04 9:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-04 10:11 ` Quentin Casasnovas
2015-04-04 10:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-04 13:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-04 13:34 ` [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Fix ALTERNATIVE_2 padding generation properly Borislav Petkov
2015-04-07 9:27 ` Quentin Casasnovas [this message]
2015-04-07 9:40 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
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