Commit b0e2dc95 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/alternative: Handle Jcc __x86_indirect_thunk_\reg



commit 2f0cbb2a upstream.

Handle the rare cases where the compiler (clang) does an indirect
conditional tail-call using:

  Jcc __x86_indirect_thunk_\reg

For the !RETPOLINE case this can be rewritten to fit the original (6
byte) instruction like:

  Jncc.d8	1f
  JMP		*%\reg
  NOP
1:

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.296470217@infradead.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 381fd04c
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