4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Alexander Kuleshov kuleshovmail@gmail.com
commit a4733143085d6c782ac1e6c85778655b6bac1d4e upstream
We are using %rax as temporary register to check the kernel address alignment. We don't really have to since the TEST instruction does not clobber the destination operand.
Suggested-by: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov kuleshovmail@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Cc: Alexander Popov alpopov@ptsecurity.com Cc: Andrey Ryabinin ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@amacapital.net Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453531828-19291-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmai... Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-11-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.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/kernel/head_64.S | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S @@ -76,9 +76,7 @@ startup_64: subq $_text - __START_KERNEL_map, %rbp
/* Is the address not 2M aligned? */ - movq %rbp, %rax - andl $~PMD_PAGE_MASK, %eax - testl %eax, %eax + testl $~PMD_PAGE_MASK, %ebp jnz bad_address
/*