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commit 26c44b776dba4ac692a0bf5a3836feb8a63fea6b upstream. Currently, text_poke_bp() is very strict to only allow patching a single instruction; however with straight-line-speculation it will be required to patch: ret; int3, which is two instructions. As such, relax the constraints a little to allow int3 padding for all instructions that do not imply the execution of the next instruction, ie: RET, JMP.d8 and JMP.d32. While there, rename the text_poke_loc::rel32 field to ::disp. Note: this fills up the text_poke_loc structure which is now a round 16 bytes big. [ bp: Put comments ontop instead of on the side. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211204134908.082342723@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.