This stops us from doing code patching in init sections after they've
been freed.
In this chain:
kvm_guest_init() ->
kvm_use_magic_page() ->
fault_in_pages_readable() ->
__get_user() ->
__get_user_nocheck() ->
barrier_nospec();
We have a code patching location at barrier_nospec() and
kvm_guest_init() is an init function. This whole chain gets inlined,
so when we free the init section (hence kvm_guest_init()), this code
goes away and hence should no longer be patched.
We seen this as userspace memory corruption when using a memory
checker while doing partition migration testing on powervm (this
starts the code patching post migration via
/sys/kernel/mobility/migration). In theory, it could also happen when
using /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/barrier_nospec.
With this patch there is a small change of a race if we code patch
between the init section being freed and setting SYSTEM_RUNNING (in
kernel_init()) but that seems like an impractical time and small
window for any code patching to occur.
cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # 4.13+
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mi...@neuling.org>
---
For stable I've marked this as v4.13+ since that's when we refactored
code-patching.c but it could go back even further than that. In
reality though, I think we can only hit this since the first
spectre/meltdown changes.
v2:
Print when we skip an address
---
arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index 850f3b8f4d..68254e7f17 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -23,11 +23,33 @@
#include <asm/code-patching.h>
#include <asm/setup.h>
+
+static inline bool in_init_section(unsigned int *patch_addr)
+{
+ if (patch_addr < (unsigned int *)__init_begin)
+ return false;
+ if (patch_addr >= (unsigned int *)__init_end)
+ return false;
+ return true;
+}
+
+static inline bool init_freed(void)
+{
+ return (system_state >= SYSTEM_RUNNING);
+}
+
static int __patch_instruction(unsigned int *exec_addr, unsigned int instr,
unsigned int *patch_addr)
{
int err;
+ /* Make sure we aren't patching a freed init section */
+ if (in_init_section(patch_addr) && init_freed()) {
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "Skipping init section patching addr:
0x%lx\n",
+ (unsigned long)patch_addr);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
__put_user_size(instr, patch_addr, 4, err);
if (err)
return err;
--
2.17.1
