x86/alternatives: Prevent uninitialized stack byte read in apply_alternatives()
authorMateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@google.com>
Wed, 24 May 2017 13:55:00 +0000 (15:55 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 24 May 2017 14:18:12 +0000 (16:18 +0200)
commitfc152d22d6e9fac95a9a990e6c29510bdf1b9425
treec784fbbc87c38aa14979ec3ff7d4a70741761ffa
parentcbed27cdf0e3f7ea3b2259e86b9e34df02be3fe4
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.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c