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| author | Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> | 2017-10-05 20:30:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-10-18 09:20:43 +0200 |
| commit | ad505a7b4fb0fd8d533f78083df203d88cdf1a27 (patch) | |
| tree | 72fe8f150c5b36bd7967af6380e61b1f974eae29 /arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h | |
| parent | 208563455aac7540755bb9d8e8edaf7c5ef61d8c (diff) | |
x86/alternatives: Fix alt_max_short macro to really be a max()
commit 6b32c126d33d5cb379bca280ab8acedc1ca978ff upstream.
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>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507228213-13095-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/alternative-asm.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 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))))) |