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)
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:06:17 +0000 (17:06 -0800)
commit8009479ee919b9a91674f48050ccbff64eafedaa
treed35a8f38ef9b110fe1bee90fc300f20c8799997d
parent6890cb1ace350b4386c8aee1343dc3b3ddd214da
x86/bugs: Use fixed addressing for VERW operand

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
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h