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powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections
authorMichael Neuling <[email protected]>
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 01:14:11 +0000 (11:14 +1000)
committerMichael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Tue, 18 Sep 2018 12:42:54 +0000 (22:42 +1000)
commit51c3c62b58b357e8d35e4cc32f7b4ec907426fe3
treeb11eefccbfe4df8cc01511fb81b7caf7a23d790e
parentf14040bca89258b8a1c71e2112e430462172ce93
powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections

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: [email protected] # 4.13+
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
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