arm64: Restrict CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to GNU as or LLVM IAS 15.x or newer
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:21:28 +0000 (10:21 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:20:00 +0000 (17:20 +0000)
commit69e619d2fd056fe1f5d0adf01584f2da669e0d28
treee38a6b02391cf2f168cb98bd6df34fe257396b34
parentfc14784cc5ba069f41aa16023dc10cab929935a2
arm64: Restrict CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to GNU as or LLVM IAS 15.x or newer

commit 146a15b873353f8ac28dc281c139ff611a3c4848 upstream.

Prior to LLVM 15.0.0, LLVM's integrated assembler would incorrectly
byte-swap NOP when compiling for big-endian, and the resulting series of
bytes happened to match the encoding of FNMADD S21, S30, S0, S0.

This went unnoticed until commit:

  34f66c4c4d5518c1 ("arm64: Use a positive cpucap for FP/SIMD")

Prior to that commit, the kernel would always enable the use of FPSIMD
early in boot when __cpu_setup() initialized CPACR_EL1, and so usage of
FNMADD within the kernel was not detected, but could result in the
corruption of user or kernel FPSIMD state.

After that commit, the instructions happen to trap during boot prior to
FPSIMD being detected and enabled, e.g.

| Unhandled 64-bit el1h sync exception on CPU0, ESR 0x000000001fe00000 -- ASIMD
| CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.6.0-rc3-00013-g34f66c4c4d55 #1
| Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| pstate: 400000c9 (nZcv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : __pi_strcmp+0x1c/0x150
| lr : populate_properties+0xe4/0x254
| sp : ffffd014173d3ad0
| x29: ffffd014173d3af0 x28: fffffbfffddffcb8 x27: 0000000000000000
| x26: 0000000000000058 x25: fffffbfffddfe054 x24: 0000000000000008
| x23: fffffbfffddfe000 x22: fffffbfffddfe000 x21: fffffbfffddfe044
| x20: ffffd014173d3b70 x19: 0000000000000001 x18: 0000000000000005
| x17: 0000000000000010 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 00000000413e7000
| x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000001bcc x12: 0000000000000000
| x11: 00000000d00dfeed x10: ffffd414193f2cd0 x9 : 0000000000000000
| x8 : 0101010101010101 x7 : ffffffffffffffc0 x6 : 0000000000000000
| x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0101010101010101 x3 : 000000000000002a
| x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffffd014171f2988 x0 : fffffbfffddffcb8
| Kernel panic - not syncing: Unhandled exception
| CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.6.0-rc3-00013-g34f66c4c4d55 #1
| Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| Call trace:
|  dump_backtrace+0xec/0x108
|  show_stack+0x18/0x2c
|  dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x68
|  dump_stack+0x18/0x24
|  panic+0x13c/0x340
|  el1t_64_irq_handler+0x0/0x1c
|  el1_abort+0x0/0x5c
|  el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68
|  __pi_strcmp+0x1c/0x150
|  unflatten_dt_nodes+0x1e8/0x2d8
|  __unflatten_device_tree+0x5c/0x15c
|  unflatten_device_tree+0x38/0x50
|  setup_arch+0x164/0x1e0
|  start_kernel+0x64/0x38c
|  __primary_switched+0xbc/0xc4

Restrict CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to a known good assembler, which is
either GNU as or LLVM's IAS 15.0.0 and newer, which contains the linked
commit.

Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1948
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/1379b150991f70a5782e9a143c2ba5308da1161c
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025-disable-arm64-be-ias-b4-llvm-15-v1-1-b25263ed8b23@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/Kconfig