Commit 42854dc0 authored by Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar Jeremy Fitzhardinge Committed by H. Peter Anvin

x86, paravirt: prevent gcc from generating the wrong addressing mode

Impact: fix crash on VMI (VMware)

When we generate a call sequence for calling a paravirtualized
function, we presume that the generated code is "call *0xXXXXX",
which is a 6 byte opcode; this is larger than a normal
direct call, and so we can patch a direct call over it.

At the moment, however we give gcc enough rope to hang us by
putting the address in a register and generating a two byte
indirect-via-register call.  Prevent this by explicitly
dereferencing the function pointer and passing it into the
asm as a constant.

This prevents crashes in VMI, as it cannot handle unpatchable
callsites.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <49BEEDC2.2070809@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent 895791da
......@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ extern struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops;
#define paravirt_type(op) \
[paravirt_typenum] "i" (PARAVIRT_PATCH(op)), \
[paravirt_opptr] "m" (op)
[paravirt_opptr] "i" (&(op))
#define paravirt_clobber(clobber) \
[paravirt_clobber] "i" (clobber)
......@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ int paravirt_disable_iospace(void);
* offset into the paravirt_patch_template structure, and can therefore be
* freely converted back into a structure offset.
*/
#define PARAVIRT_CALL "call *%[paravirt_opptr];"
#define PARAVIRT_CALL "call *%c[paravirt_opptr];"
/*
* These macros are intended to wrap calls through one of the paravirt
......
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