Re: [RFC] x86/alternative: Support relocations in alternatives

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 05:46:47PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 05:04:35PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Rest on IRC. :)
> 
> Here's what I'm thinking. It still fails somewhere while booting so it
> is not good yet but the idea is to show what I mean:

Yeah, forget it. I need both next_rip at the place we're patching and
next_rip in the .altinstr_replacement section. And by the time I do
that, it won't get any prettier.

And I think yours solves that more elegantly but please document the
math transformation to compute the new offset.

Also, pls do this:

	/*
	 * Do not recompute the offset if the target is within the
	 * patched insn block.
	 */
	if (target < repl || target > repl + repl_len)

to hint that you don't have to replace the offsets which are already
correct when a whole set of insns is being patched in.

FILL_RETURN_BUFFER was one example. :)

Thx.

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