x86/boot: Simplify kernel load address alignment check
authorAlexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 09:27:46 +0000 (02:27 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:31:45 +0000 (11:31 +0200)
commit a4733143085d6c782ac1e6c85778655b6bac1d4e upstream

We are using %rax as temporary register to check the kernel
address alignment. We don't really have to since the TEST
instruction does not clobber the destination operand.

Suggested-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alpopov@ptsecurity.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453531828-19291-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-11-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Bo Gan <ganb@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S

index 4034e905741a90e15fd5823f626a20e2fd61b19e..734ba1d0f6868a74132657829e79b5a8746e38fa 100644 (file)
@@ -76,9 +76,7 @@ startup_64:
        subq    $_text - __START_KERNEL_map, %rbp
 
        /* Is the address not 2M aligned? */
-       movq    %rbp, %rax
-       andl    $~PMD_PAGE_MASK, %eax
-       testl   %eax, %eax
+       testl   $~PMD_PAGE_MASK, %ebp
        jnz     bad_address
 
        /*