[PATCH v2 2/4] x86/alternative: add indirect call patching

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Mon Oct 16 2023 - 08:39:56 EST


In order to prepare replacing of paravirt patching with alternative
patching, add the capability to replace an indirect call with a direct
one to alternative patching.

This is done via a new flag ALT_FLAG_CALL as the target of the call
instruction needs to be evaluated using the value of the location
addressed by the indirect call. For convenience add a macro for a
default call instruction. In case it is being used without the new
flag being set, it will result in a BUG() when being executed. As in
most cases the feature used will be X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS add another
macro ALT_CALL_ALWAYS usable for the flags parameter of the ALTERNATIVE
macros.

For a complete replacement handle the special cases of calling a nop
function and an indirect call of NULL the same way as paravirt does.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 5 ++++
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index 67e50bd40bb8..dd63b96577e9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@

#define ALT_FLAG_NOT (1 << 0)
#define ALT_NOT(feature) ((ALT_FLAG_NOT << ALT_FLAGS_SHIFT) | (feature))
+#define ALT_FLAG_CALL (1 << 1)
+#define ALT_CALL(feature) ((ALT_FLAG_CALL << ALT_FLAGS_SHIFT) | (feature))
+#define ALT_CALL_ALWAYS ALT_CALL(X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS)

#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__

@@ -150,6 +153,8 @@ static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */

+#define ALT_CALL_INSTR "call x86_BUG"
+
#define b_replacement(num) "664"#num
#define e_replacement(num) "665"#num

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 1c8dd8e05f3f..01b89a10d219 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -395,6 +395,40 @@ noinstr void x86_BUG(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_BUG);

+/*
+ * Rewrite the "call x86_BUG" replacement to point to the target of the
+ * indirect pv_ops call "call *disp(%ip)".
+ */
+static int alt_replace_call(u8 *instr, u8 *insn_buff, struct alt_instr *a)
+{
+ void *target, *bug = &x86_BUG;
+
+ if (a->replacementlen != 5 || insn_buff[0] != CALL_INSN_OPCODE) {
+ pr_err("Alternative: ALT_FLAG_CALL set for a non-call replacement instruction\n");
+ pr_err(" Ignoring the flag for the instruction at %pS (%px)\n", instr, instr);
+ return 5;
+ }
+
+ if (a->instrlen != 6 || instr[0] != 0xff || instr[1] != 0x15) {
+ pr_err("Alternative: ALT_FLAG_CALL set for unrecognized indirect call\n");
+ pr_err(" Not replacing the instruction at %pS (%px)\n", instr, instr);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ /* ff 15 00 00 00 00 call *0x0(%rip) */
+ target = *(void **)(instr + a->instrlen + *(s32 *)(instr + 2));
+ if (!target)
+ target = bug;
+
+ /* (x86_BUG - .) + (target - x86_BUG) := target - . */
+ *(s32 *)(insn_buff + 1) += target - bug;
+
+ if (target == &x86_nop)
+ return 0;
+
+ return 5;
+}
+
/*
* Replace instructions with better alternatives for this CPU type. This runs
* before SMP is initialized to avoid SMP problems with self modifying code.
@@ -462,6 +496,12 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start,
memcpy(insn_buff, replacement, a->replacementlen);
insn_buff_sz = a->replacementlen;

+ if (a->flags & ALT_FLAG_CALL) {
+ insn_buff_sz = alt_replace_call(instr, insn_buff, a);
+ if (insn_buff_sz < 0)
+ continue;
+ }
+
for (; insn_buff_sz < a->instrlen; insn_buff_sz++)
insn_buff[insn_buff_sz] = 0x90;

--
2.35.3