4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org
commit 1aa7a5735a41418d8e01fa7c9565eb2657e2ea3f upstream
The macro is not type safe and I did look for why that "g" constraint for the asm doesn't work: it's because the asm is more fundamentally wrong.
It does
movl %[val], %%eax
but "val" isn't a 32-bit value, so then gcc will pass it in a register, and generate code like
movl %rsi, %eax
and gas will complain about a nonsensical 'mov' instruction (it's moving a 64-bit register to a 32-bit one).
Passing it through memory will just hide the real bug - gcc still thinks the memory location is 64-bit, but the "movl" will only load the first 32 bits and it all happens to work because x86 is little-endian.
Convert it to a type safe inline function with a little trick which hands the feature into the ALTERNATIVE macro.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa@csail.mit.edu Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) matt.helsley@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov amakhalov@vmware.com Reviewed-by: Bo Gan ganb@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org ---
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -195,15 +195,16 @@ static inline void vmexit_fill_RSB(void) #endif }
-#define alternative_msr_write(_msr, _val, _feature) \ - asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("", \ - "movl %[msr], %%ecx\n\t" \ - "movl %[val], %%eax\n\t" \ - "movl $0, %%edx\n\t" \ - "wrmsr", \ - _feature) \ - : : [msr] "i" (_msr), [val] "i" (_val) \ - : "eax", "ecx", "edx", "memory") +static __always_inline +void alternative_msr_write(unsigned int msr, u64 val, unsigned int feature) +{ + asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("", "wrmsr", %c[feature]) + : : "c" (msr), + "a" (val), + "d" (val >> 32), + [feature] "i" (feature) + : "memory"); +}
static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void) {