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Borislav Petkov authored
Take a look at the first instruction byte before optimizing the NOP - there might be something else there already, like the ALTERNATIVE_2() in rdtsc_barrier() which NOPs out on AMD even though we just patched in an MFENCE. This happens because the alternatives sees X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, AMD CPUs set it, we patch in the MFENCE and right afterwards it sees X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC which AMD CPUs don't set and we blindly optimize the NOP. Checking whether at least the first byte is 0x90 prevents that. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428181662-18020-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.deSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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