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x86/bugs: Use fixed addressing for VERW operand
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:52:33 +0000 (15:52 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 3 Apr 2024 13:11:58 +0000 (15:11 +0200)
commitb75a45fe97bd438598a2fc27a769d472f9513d9e
treeff32ac8f879d0fea2dc5446224e887c0bc071e62
parent23ff855e1404f240c8873e9e4577e0a61d404a1f
x86/bugs: Use fixed addressing for VERW operand

commit 8009479ee919b9a91674f48050ccbff64eafedaa upstream.

The macro used for MDS mitigation executes VERW with relative
addressing for the operand. This was necessary in earlier versions of
the series. Now it is unnecessary and creates a problem for backports
on older kernels that don't support relocations in alternatives.
Relocation support was added by commit 270a69c4485d ("x86/alternative:
Support relocations in alternatives").  Also asm for fixed addressing
is much cleaner than relative RIP addressing.

Simplify the asm by using fixed addressing for VERW operand.

[ dhansen: tweak changelog ]

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20558f89-299b-472e-9a96-171403a83bd6@suse.com/
Fixes: baf8361e5455 ("x86/bugs: Add asm helpers for executing VERW")
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240226-verw-arg-fix-v1-1-7b37ee6fd57d%40linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h