[PATCH v5 3/5] x86/alternative: add indirect call patching

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Wed Nov 29 2023 - 08:34:24 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>
---
V4:
- 32-bit mode doesn't have %rip relative addressing (kernel test robot)
- define ALT_CALL_INSTR in assembly, too (kernel test robot)
V5:
- BUG() in case of inconsistent flag/instruction (Boris Petkov)
- rename flag (Boris Petkov)
- make target address calculation more readable (Boris Petkov)
---
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 9 ++++++
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 56 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index ce788ab4e77c..472334eed6f3 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_DIRECT_CALL (1 << 1)
+#define ALT_DIRECT_CALL(feature) ((ALT_FLAG_DIRECT_CALL << ALT_FLAGS_SHIFT) | (feature))
+#define ALT_CALL_ALWAYS ALT_DIRECT_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 BUG_func"
+
#define b_replacement(num) "664"#num
#define e_replacement(num) "665"#num

@@ -386,6 +391,10 @@ void nop_func(void);
.byte \alt_len
.endm

+.macro ALT_CALL_INSTR
+ call BUG_func
+.endm
+
/*
* Define an alternative between two instructions. If @feature is
* present, early code in apply_alternatives() replaces @oldinstr with
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index ca25dd280b8c..e7e53b9e801b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -395,6 +395,47 @@ noinstr void BUG_func(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(BUG_func);

+/*
+ * Rewrite the "call BUG_func" 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 = &BUG_func;
+ s32 disp;
+
+ if (a->replacementlen != 5 || insn_buff[0] != CALL_INSN_OPCODE) {
+ pr_err("ALT_FLAG_DIRECT_CALL set for a non-call replacement instruction\n");
+ BUG();
+ }
+
+ if (a->instrlen != 6 || instr[0] != 0xff || instr[1] != 0x15) {
+ pr_err("ALT_FLAG_DIRECT_CALL set for unrecognized indirect call\n");
+ BUG();
+ }
+
+ disp = *(s32 *)(instr + 2);
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ /* ff 15 00 00 00 00 call *0x0(%rip) */
+ /* target address is stored at "next instruction + disp". */
+ target = *(void **)(instr + a->instrlen + disp);
+#else
+ /* ff 15 00 00 00 00 call *0x0 */
+ /* target address is stored at disp. */
+ target = *(void **)disp;
+#endif
+ if (!target)
+ target = bug;
+
+ /* (BUG_func - .) + (target - BUG_func) := target - . */
+ *(s32 *)(insn_buff + 1) += target - bug;
+
+ if (target == &nop_func)
+ 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 +503,12 @@ 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_DIRECT_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