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.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.13+
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
extern unsigned int rtas_data;
extern unsigned long long memory_limit;
+extern bool init_mem_is_free;
extern unsigned long klimit;
extern void *zalloc_maybe_bootmem(size_t size, gfp_t mask);
{
int err;
+ /* Make sure we aren't patching a freed init section */
+ if (init_mem_is_free && init_section_contains(exec_addr, 4)) {
+ pr_debug("Skipping init section patching addr: 0x%px\n", exec_addr);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
__put_user_size(instr, patch_addr, 4, err);
if (err)
return err;
#endif
unsigned long long memory_limit;
+bool init_mem_is_free;
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
pte_t *kmap_pte;
{
ppc_md.progress = ppc_printk_progress;
mark_initmem_nx();
+ init_mem_is_free = true;
free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM);
}