x86/alternatives: Prevent uninitialized stack byte read in apply_alternatives()
In the current form of the code, if a->replacementlen is 0, the reference to *insnbuf for comparison touches potentially garbage memory. While it doesn't affect the execution flow due to the subsequent a->replacementlen comparison, it is (rightly) detected as use of uninitialized memory by a runtime instrumentation currently under my development, and could be detected as such by other tools in the future, too (e.g. KMSAN). Fix the "false-positive" by reordering the conditions to first check the replacement instruction length before referencing specific opcode bytes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@google.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524135500.27223-1-mjurczyk@google.comSigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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