x86/mm: Do not verify W^X at boot up
authorSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:45:36 +0000 (11:45 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:05:27 +0000 (18:05 -0700)
commita970174d7a1010cb29a5b0c9fa0626abdefcfcbe
treedd0efb49091012750a00a3ccf32f71dadb7e252d
parent337a0a0b63f1c30195733eaacf39e4310a592a68
x86/mm: Do not verify W^X at boot up

Adding on the kernel command line "ftrace=function" triggered:

  CPA detected W^X violation: 8000000000000063 -> 0000000000000063 range: 0xffffffffc0013000 - 0xffffffffc0013fff PFN 10031b
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:609
  verify_rwx+0x61/0x6d
  Call Trace:
     __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x146/0x8a6
     change_page_attr_set_clr+0x135/0x268
     change_page_attr_clear.constprop.0+0x16/0x1c
     set_memory_x+0x2c/0x32
     arch_ftrace_update_trampoline+0x218/0x2db
     ftrace_update_trampoline+0x16/0xa1
     __register_ftrace_function+0x93/0xb2
     ftrace_startup+0x21/0xf0
     register_ftrace_function_nolock+0x26/0x40
     register_ftrace_function+0x4e/0x143
     function_trace_init+0x7d/0xc3
     tracer_init+0x23/0x2c
     tracing_set_tracer+0x1d5/0x206
     register_tracer+0x1c0/0x1e4
     init_function_trace+0x90/0x96
     early_trace_init+0x25c/0x352
     start_kernel+0x424/0x6e4
     x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x2a
     x86_64_start_kernel+0x8c/0x95
     secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe0/0xeb

This is because at boot up, kernel text is writable, and there's no
reason to do tricks to updated it.  But the verifier does not
distinguish updates at boot up and at run time, and causes a warning at
time of boot.

Add a check for system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING and allow it if that is
the case.

[ These SYSTEM_BOOTING special cases are all pretty horrid, but the x86
  text_poke() code does some odd things at bootup, forcing this for now
    - Linus ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221024112730.180916b3@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 652c5bf380ad0 ("x86/mm: Refuse W^X violations")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c