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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index 4a234677e21..1eeeafcb441 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -210,6 +210,15 @@ void __init_or_module apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start, u8 insnbuf[MAX_PATCH_LEN]; DPRINTK("%s: alt table %p -> %p\n", __func__, start, end); + /* + * The scan order should be from start to end. A later scanned + * alternative code can overwrite a previous scanned alternative code. + * Some kernel functions (e.g. memcpy, memset, etc) use this order to + * patch code. + * + * So be careful if you want to change the scan order to any other + * order. + */ for (a = start; a < end; a++) { u8 *instr = a->instr; BUG_ON(a->replacementlen > a->instrlen); @@ -679,7 +688,7 @@ void __kprobes text_poke_smp_batch(struct text_poke_param *params, int n) __stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, NULL); } -#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) || defined(HAVE_JUMP_LABEL) +#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) || defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL) #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 unsigned char ideal_nop5[5] = { 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x66, 0x90 }; |