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| author | Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> | 2017-10-05 20:30:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2017-10-09 13:35:17 +0200 |
| commit | 6b32c126d33d5cb379bca280ab8acedc1ca978ff (patch) | |
| tree | 90b2a48d574c8ac2c055e69696fb989bc4f14900 /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 924c6b900cfdf376b07bccfd80e62b21914f8a5a (diff) | |
x86/alternatives: Fix alt_max_short macro to really be a max()
The alt_max_short() macro in asm/alternative.h does not work as
intended, leading to nasty bugs. E.g. alt_max_short("1", "3")
evaluates to 3, but alt_max_short("3", "1") evaluates to 1 -- not
exactly the maximum of 1 and 3.
In fact, I had to learn it the hard way by crashing my kernel in not
so funny ways by attempting to make use of the ALTENATIVE_2 macro
with alternatives where the first one was larger than the second
one.
According to [1] and commit dbe4058a6a44 ("x86/alternatives: Fix
ALTERNATIVE_2 padding generation properly") the right handed side
should read "-(-(a < b))" not "-(-(a - b))". Fix that, to make the
macro work as intended.
While at it, fix up the comments regarding the additional "-", too.
It's not about gas' usage of s32 but brain dead logic of having a
"true" value of -1 for the < operator ... *sigh*
Btw., the one in asm/alternative-asm.h is correct. And, apparently,
all current users of ALTERNATIVE_2() pass same sized alternatives,
avoiding to hit the bug.
[1] http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerMinOrMax
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Fixes: dbe4058a6a44 ("x86/alternatives: Fix ALTERNATIVE_2 padding generation properly")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507228213-13095-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h index e7636bac7372..6c98821fef5e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h @@ -62,8 +62,10 @@ #define new_len2 145f-144f /* - * max without conditionals. Idea adapted from: + * gas compatible max based on the idea from: * http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerMinOrMax + * + * The additional "-" is needed because gas uses a "true" value of -1. */ #define alt_max_short(a, b) ((a) ^ (((a) ^ (b)) & -(-((a) < (b))))) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h index c096624137ae..ccbe24e697c4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h @@ -103,12 +103,12 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end) alt_end_marker ":\n" /* - * max without conditionals. Idea adapted from: + * gas compatible max based on the idea from: * http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerMinOrMax * - * The additional "-" is needed because gas works with s32s. + * The additional "-" is needed because gas uses a "true" value of -1. */ -#define alt_max_short(a, b) "((" a ") ^ (((" a ") ^ (" b ")) & -(-((" a ") - (" b ")))))" +#define alt_max_short(a, b) "((" a ") ^ (((" a ") ^ (" b ")) & -(-((" a ") < (" b ")))))" /* * Pad the second replacement alternative with additional NOPs if it is |