From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josh Poimboeuf Subject: [PATCH 10/13] x86/alternative: Support indirect call replacement Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 10:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: x86@kernel.org Cc: Juergen Gross , Rusty Russell , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Slaby , Boris Ostrovsky , Mike Galbraith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sasha Levin , Chris Wright , Thomas Gleixner , Andy Lutomirski , "H. Peter Anvin" , Borislav Petkov , live-patching@vger.kernel.org, Alok Kataria , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Add alternative patching support for replacing an instruction with an indirect call. This will be needed for the paravirt alternatives. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf --- arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index 3344d3382e91..81c577c7deba 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -410,20 +410,28 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start, insnbuf_sz = a->replacementlen; /* - * 0xe8 is a relative jump; fix the offset. - * - * Instruction length is checked before the opcode to avoid - * accessing uninitialized bytes for zero-length replacements. + * Fix the address offsets for call and jump instructions which + * use PC-relative addressing. */ if (a->replacementlen == 5 && *insnbuf == 0xe8) { + /* direct call */ *(s32 *)(insnbuf + 1) += replacement - instr; - DPRINTK("Fix CALL offset: 0x%x, CALL 0x%lx", + DPRINTK("Fix direct CALL offset: 0x%x, CALL 0x%lx", *(s32 *)(insnbuf + 1), (unsigned long)instr + *(s32 *)(insnbuf + 1) + 5); - } - if (a->replacementlen && is_jmp(replacement[0])) + } else if (a->replacementlen == 6 && *insnbuf == 0xff && + *(insnbuf+1) == 0x15) { + /* indirect call */ + *(s32 *)(insnbuf + 2) += replacement - instr; + DPRINTK("Fix indirect CALL offset: 0x%x, CALL *0x%lx", + *(s32 *)(insnbuf + 2), + (unsigned long)instr + *(s32 *)(insnbuf + 2) + 6); + + } else if (a->replacementlen && is_jmp(replacement[0])) { + /* direct jump */ recompute_jump(a, instr, replacement, insnbuf); + } if (a->instrlen > a->replacementlen) { add_nops(insnbuf + a->replacementlen, -- 2.13.6