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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 13:32:50 +0000 (15:32 +0200)
commita62d6e700c1d61ece08802d61ca6a4f0b984afb2
treee347ccf883ac2be0c1063f8b51eb1ef55802c793
parent4acef16fe269b9a4d091e949d354cff9654cc640
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