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x86/alternative: Optimize returns patching
authorBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Fri, 12 May 2023 12:05:11 +0000 (14:05 +0200)
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Fri, 12 May 2023 15:53:18 +0000 (17:53 +0200)
commitd2408e043e7296017420aa5929b3bba4d5e61013
tree8f02c7889df096fd43ab30c8a2bb7ae031b3f521
parentb6c881b248ef9d629ec2365808cb4894991c0837
x86/alternative: Optimize returns patching

Instead of decoding each instruction in the return sites range only to
realize that that return site is a jump to the default return thunk
which is needed - X86_FEATURE_RETHUNK is enabled - lift that check
before the loop and get rid of that loop overhead.

Add comments about what gets patched, while at it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512120952.7924-1-bp@alien8.de
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c