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authorBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2024-03-27 16:43:14 +0100
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2024-04-09 18:03:53 +0200
commitee8962082a4413dba1a1b3d3d23490c5221f3b8a (patch)
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x86/alternatives: Catch late X86_FEATURE modifiers
After alternatives have been patched, changes to the X86_FEATURE flags won't take effect and could potentially even be wrong. Warn about it. This is something which has been long overdue. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Srikanth Aithal <sraithal@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240327154317.29909-3-bp@alien8.de
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h8
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpuid-deps.c3
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index 686e92d2663e..f07687ddb13d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -150,8 +150,12 @@ extern const char * const x86_bug_flags[NBUGINTS*32];
extern void setup_clear_cpu_cap(unsigned int bit);
extern void clear_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c, unsigned int bit);
-#define setup_force_cpu_cap(bit) do { \
- set_cpu_cap(&boot_cpu_data, bit); \
+#define setup_force_cpu_cap(bit) do { \
+ \
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(bit)) \
+ WARN_ON(alternatives_patched); \
+ \
+ set_cpu_cap(&boot_cpu_data, bit); \
set_bit(bit, (unsigned long *)cpu_caps_set); \
} while (0)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpuid-deps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpuid-deps.c
index b7174209d855..5dd427c6feb2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpuid-deps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpuid-deps.c
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ static void do_clear_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c, unsigned int feature)
if (WARN_ON(feature >= MAX_FEATURE_BITS))
return;
+ if (boot_cpu_has(feature))
+ WARN_ON(alternatives_patched);
+
clear_feature(c, feature);
/* Collect all features to disable, handling dependencies */