From 3ea1704a92967834bf0e64ca1205db4680d04048 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 20:49:24 +0100 Subject: x86/alternatives: Sync core before enabling interrupts text_poke_early() does: local_irq_save(flags); memcpy(addr, opcode, len); local_irq_restore(flags); sync_core(); That's not really correct because the synchronization should happen before interrupts are re-enabled to ensure that a pending interrupt observes the complete update of the opcodes. It's not entirely clear whether the interrupt entry provides enough serialization already, but moving the sync_core() invocation into interrupt disabled region does no harm and is obviously correct. Fixes: 6fffacb30349 ("x86/alternatives, jumplabel: Use text_poke_early() before mm_init()") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZT6narvE%2BLxX%2B7Be@windriver.com --- arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index 73be3931e4f0..fd44739828f7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -1685,8 +1685,8 @@ void __init_or_module text_poke_early(void *addr, const void *opcode, } else { local_irq_save(flags); memcpy(addr, opcode, len); - local_irq_restore(flags); sync_core(); + local_irq_restore(flags); /* * Could also do a CLFLUSH here to speed up CPU recovery; but -- cgit v1.2.3