Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:27:08 +0200
From: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>,
        X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: Fix ALTERNATIVE_2 padding generation
 properly
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On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 03:34:43PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> 
> Quentin caught a corner case with the generation of instruction padding
> in the ALTERNATIVE_2 macro: if len(orig_insn) < len(alt1) < len(alt2),
> then not enough padding gets added and that is not good(tm) as we could
> overwrite the beginning of the next instruction.
> 

FWIW, this patch looks good to me (I have not tested it though).

Thanks!

Quentin
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