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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2025-09-29 13:29:45 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-10-14 10:38:11 +0200
commitad74016b919cbad78d203fa1c459ae18e73ce586 (patch)
tree01398cabf3da7046b936d3abd87078fa5ececbc0 /arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
parent3a8660878839faadb4f1a6dd72c3179c1df56787 (diff)
x86/alternative: Drop not needed test after call of alt_replace_call()
alt_replace_call() will never return a negative value, so testing the return value to be less than zero can be dropped. This makes it possible to switch the return type of alt_replace_call() and the type of insn_buff_sz to unsigned int. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 8ee5ff547357..4f3ea50e41e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(BUG_func);
* Rewrite the "call BUG_func" replacement to point to the target of the
* indirect pv_ops call "call *disp(%ip)".
*/
-static int alt_replace_call(u8 *instr, u8 *insn_buff, struct alt_instr *a)
+static unsigned int alt_replace_call(u8 *instr, u8 *insn_buff, struct alt_instr *a)
{
void *target, *bug = &BUG_func;
s32 disp;
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start,
* order.
*/
for (a = start; a < end; a++) {
- int insn_buff_sz = 0;
+ unsigned int insn_buff_sz = 0;
/*
* In case of nested ALTERNATIVE()s the outer alternative might
@@ -683,11 +683,8 @@ void __init_or_module noinline apply_alternatives(struct alt_instr *start,
memcpy(insn_buff, replacement, a->replacementlen);
insn_buff_sz = a->replacementlen;
- if (a->flags & ALT_FLAG_DIRECT_CALL) {
+ if (a->flags & ALT_FLAG_DIRECT_CALL)
insn_buff_sz = alt_replace_call(instr, insn_buff, a);
- if (insn_buff_sz < 0)
- continue;
- }
for (; insn_buff_sz < a->instrlen; insn_buff_sz++)
insn_buff[insn_buff_sz] = 0x90;