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Subject[PATCH 4.14 147/164] powerpc/lib: Fix off-by-one in alternate feature patching
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4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

commit b8858581febb050688e276b956796bc4a78299ed upstream.

When we patch an alternate feature section, we have to adjust any
relative branches that branch out of the alternate section.

But currently we have a bug if we have a branch that points to past
the last instruction of the alternate section, eg:

FTR_SECTION_ELSE
1: b 2f
or 6,6,6
2:
ALT_FTR_SECTION_END(...)
nop

This will result in a relative branch at 1 with a target that equals
the end of the alternate section.

That branch does not need adjusting when it's moved to the non-else
location. Currently we do adjust it, resulting in a branch that goes
off into the link-time location of the else section, which is junk.

The fix is to not patch branches that have a target == end of the
alternate section.

Fixes: d20fe50a7b3c ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Branch inside feature section")
Fixes: 9b1a735de64c ("powerpc: Add logic to patch alternative feature sections")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.27+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static int patch_alt_instruction(unsigne
unsigned int *target = (unsigned int *)branch_target(src);

/* Branch within the section doesn't need translating */
- if (target < alt_start || target >= alt_end) {
+ if (target < alt_start || target > alt_end) {
instr = translate_branch(dest, src);
if (!instr)
return 1;

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