x86/asm: Get rid of __read_cr4_safe()

We use __read_cr4() vs __read_cr4_safe() inconsistently.  On
CR4-less CPUs, all CR4 bits are effectively clear, so we can make
the code simpler and more robust by making __read_cr4() always fix
up faults on 32-bit kernels.

This may fix some bugs on old 486-like CPUs, but I don't have any
easy way to test that.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: david@saggiorato.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ea647033d357d9ce2ad2bbde5a631045f5052fb6.1475178370.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
index 587d7914ea4b..19a2224f9e16 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
@@ -59,22 +59,19 @@ static inline void native_write_cr3(unsigned long val)
 static inline unsigned long native_read_cr4(void)
 {
 	unsigned long val;
-	asm volatile("mov %%cr4,%0\n\t" : "=r" (val), "=m" (__force_order));
-	return val;
-}
-
-static inline unsigned long native_read_cr4_safe(void)
-{
-	unsigned long val;
-	/* This could fault if %cr4 does not exist. In x86_64, a cr4 always
-	 * exists, so it will never fail. */
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+	/*
+	 * This could fault if CR4 does not exist.  Non-existent CR4
+	 * is functionally equivalent to CR4 == 0.  Keep it simple and pretend
+	 * that CR4 == 0 on CPUs that don't have CR4.
+	 */
 	asm volatile("1: mov %%cr4, %0\n"
 		     "2:\n"
 		     _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 2b)
 		     : "=r" (val), "=m" (__force_order) : "0" (0));
 #else
-	val = native_read_cr4();
+	/* CR4 always exists on x86_64. */
+	asm volatile("mov %%cr4,%0\n\t" : "=r" (val), "=m" (__force_order));
 #endif
 	return val;
 }
@@ -182,11 +179,6 @@ static inline unsigned long __read_cr4(void)
 	return native_read_cr4();
 }
 
-static inline unsigned long __read_cr4_safe(void)
-{
-	return native_read_cr4_safe();
-}
-
 static inline void __write_cr4(unsigned long x)
 {
 	native_write_cr4(x);