x86: Clear .brk area at early boot
authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 07:14:40 +0000 (09:14 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 21 Jul 2022 19:24:40 +0000 (21:24 +0200)
commit26bb7afc027ce6ac8ab6747babec674d55689ff0
treed27b9f931886ca3e4dc03461f7079ff9769e6ad2
parentee1da3d59674a1f6134fbe3dea7070e32f161083
x86: Clear .brk area at early boot

[ Upstream commit 38fa5479b41376dc9d7f57e71c83514285a25ca0 ]

The .brk section has the same properties as .bss: it is an alloc-only
section and should be cleared before being used.

Not doing so is especially a problem for Xen PV guests, as the
hypervisor will validate page tables (check for writable page tables
and hypervisor private bits) before accepting them to be used.

Make sure .brk is initially zero by letting clear_bss() clear the brk
area, too.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630071441.28576-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/head64.c