Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> writes: > The previous commit reduced the amount of code that is run before we > setup a paca. However there are still a few remaining functions that > run with no paca, or worse, with an arbitrary value in r13 that will > be used as a paca pointer. > > In particular the stack protector canary is stored in the paca, so if > stack protector is activated for any of these functions we will read > the stack canary from wherever r13 points. If r13 happens to point > outside of memory we will get a machine check / checkstop. > > For example if we modify initialise_paca() to trigger stack > protection, and then boot in the mambo simulator with r13 poisoned in > skiboot before calling the kernel: > > DEBUG: 19952232: (19952232): INSTRUCTION: PC=0xC0000000191FC1E8: > [0x3C4C006D]: addis r2,r12,0x6D [fetch] > DEBUG: 19952236: (19952236): INSTRUCTION: PC=0xC00000001807EAD8: > [0x7D8802A6]: mflr r12 [fetch] > FATAL ERROR: 19952276: (19952276): Check Stop for 0:0: Machine Check with > ME bit of MSR off > DEBUG: 19952276: (19952276): INSTRUCTION: PC=0xC0000000191FCA7C: > [0xE90D0CF8]: ld r8,0xCF8(r13) [Instruction Failed] > INFO: 19952276: (19952277): ** Execution stopped: Mambo Error, Machine > Check Stop, ** > systemsim % bt > pc: 0xC0000000191FCA7C initialise_paca+0x54 > lr: 0xC0000000191FC22C early_setup+0x44 > stack:0x00000000198CBED0 0x0 +0x0 > stack:0x00000000198CBF00 0xC0000000191FC22C early_setup+0x44 > stack:0x00000000198CBF90 0x1801C968 +0x1801C968 > > So annotate the relevant functions to ensure stack protection is never > enabled for them.
This all makes sense to me, although I don't really understand the stack protector especially well. I have checked and I can find no other C functions that are called before early_setup. Do we need to do add setup_64.c to the part of the Makefile that disables tracing of early boot? ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER # Do not trace early boot code CFLAGS_REMOVE_cputable.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) CFLAGS_REMOVE_prom_init.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) CFLAGS_REMOVE_btext.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) CFLAGS_REMOVE_prom.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -> should we add setup_64.c here? endif Regards, Daniel > > Fixes: 06ec27aea9fc ("powerpc/64: add stack protector support") > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+ > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > --- > arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c | 4 ++-- > arch/powerpc/kernel/setup.h | 2 ++ > arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 2 +- > 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > v5: New. > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c > index 0ee6308541b1..3f91ccaa9c74 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c > @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static struct slb_shadow * __init new_slb_shadow(int cpu, > unsigned long limit) > struct paca_struct **paca_ptrs __read_mostly; > EXPORT_SYMBOL(paca_ptrs); > > -void __init initialise_paca(struct paca_struct *new_paca, int cpu) > +void __init __nostackprotector initialise_paca(struct paca_struct *new_paca, > int cpu) > { > #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES > new_paca->lppaca_ptr = NULL; > @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ void __init initialise_paca(struct paca_struct *new_paca, > int cpu) > } > > /* Put the paca pointer into r13 and SPRG_PACA */ > -void setup_paca(struct paca_struct *new_paca) > +void __nostackprotector setup_paca(struct paca_struct *new_paca) > { > /* Setup r13 */ > local_paca = new_paca; > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup.h b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup.h > index 2dd0d9cb5a20..d210671026e9 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup.h > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup.h > @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ > #ifndef __ARCH_POWERPC_KERNEL_SETUP_H > #define __ARCH_POWERPC_KERNEL_SETUP_H > > +#define __nostackprotector > __attribute__((__optimize__("no-stack-protector"))) > + > void initialize_cache_info(void); > void irqstack_early_init(void); > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c > index 17886d147dd0..438a9befce41 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c > @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ void __init record_spr_defaults(void) > * device-tree is not accessible via normal means at this point. > */ > > -void __init early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr) > +void __init __nostackprotector early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr) > { > static __initdata struct paca_struct boot_paca; > > -- > 2.24.1