Peter Zijlstra 1cd5f059d9 x86,static_call: Fix __static_call_return0 for i386 ...

Paolo reported that the instruction sequence that is used to replace:

    call __static_call_return0

namely:

    66 66 48 31 c0	data16 data16 xor %rax,%rax

decodes to something else on i386, namely:

    66 66 48		data16 dec %ax
    31 c0		xor    %eax,%eax

Which is a nonsensical sequence that happens to have the same outcome.
*However* an important distinction is that it consists of 2
instructions which is a problem when the thing needs to be overwriten
with a regular call instruction again.

As such, replace the instruction with something that decodes the same
on both i386 and x86_64.

Fixes: 3f2a8fc4b1 ("static_call/x86: Add __static_call_return0()")
Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220318204419.GT8939@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net

2022-04-05 09:59:37 +02:00

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