Re: [RFC] x86/alternative: Support relocations in alternatives

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 03:10:33PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> (sorry for the repost, forgot lkml)

Btw, you need to rediff this against tip/master. There's alt_instr.flags
change in there which conflicts with yours.

> +static void __always_inline
> +apply_reloc(int n, void *ptr, uintptr_t diff)
> +{
> +	switch (n) {
> +	case 1: apply_reloc_n(8, ptr, diff); break;
> +	case 2: apply_reloc_n(16, ptr, diff); break;
> +	case 4: apply_reloc_n(32, ptr, diff); break;
> +	default: BUG();
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +static void __init_or_module noinline
> +apply_relocation(u8 *instr, size_t len, u8 *dest, u8 *src, size_t src_len)

First param is instr, third is dest.

at the call site you have

apply_relocation(insn_buff, a->instrlen, instr, replacement, a->replacementlen);

and instr is third param. Let's call the function params:

static void __init_or_module noinline
apply_relocation(u8 *insn_buff, size_t len, u8 *instr, u8 *repl, size_t repl_len)

for less confusion pls.

> +{
> +	struct insn insn;
> +	int i = 0;
> +
> +	for (;;) {
> +		if (insn_decode_kernel(&insn, &instr[i]))

I guess say a warning here so that we catch when it goes into the fields early.

> +			return;
> +
> +		switch (insn.opcode.bytes[0]) {
> +		case 0x0f:
> +			if (insn.opcode.bytes[1] < 0x80 ||
> +			    insn.opcode.bytes[1] > 0x8f)
> +				break;
> +
> +			fallthrough;	/* Jcc.d32 */
> +		case 0x70 ... 0x7f:	/* Jcc.d8 */
> +		case JMP8_INSN_OPCODE:
> +		case JMP32_INSN_OPCODE:
> +		case CALL_INSN_OPCODE:
> +			u8 *target = src + i + insn.length + insn.immediate.value;
> +			if (target < src || target > src + src_len) {
> +				apply_reloc(insn.immediate.nbytes,
> +					    instr + i + insn_offset_immediate(&insn),
> +					    src - dest);
> +			}

Uff, it took me a while to parse this. So this can be simpler. The basic
math is:

	new_offset = next_rip - target_address;

where
	next_rip = instr + insn.length;

and I admit that my function was a bit clumsy but I think yours can be
made simpler while keeping it cleaner.

Also, calling this all "reloc" here is kinda confusing because this is not a
relocation but the offset from the next RIP to the target of the
JMP/CALL.

Lemme think about it a bit more.

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    Boris.

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