[PATCH] x86/boot/64: clang: use fixup_pointer() to access next_early_pgt

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Wed Aug 16 2017 - 15:08:18 EST


__startup_64() is normally using fixup_pointer() to access globals in a
position-independent fashion. However |next_early_pgt| was accessed
directly, which wasn't guaranteed to work.

Luckily GCC was generating a R_X86_64_PC32 PC-relative relocation for
|next_early_pgt|, but Clang emitted a R_X86_64_32S, which led to
accessing invalid memory and rebooting the kernel.

Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Davidson <md@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: c88d71508e36 ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 46c3c73e7f43..9ba79543d9ee 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ void __head __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr)
pudval_t *pud;
pmdval_t *pmd, pmd_entry;
int i;
+ unsigned int *next_pgt_ptr;

/* Is the address too large? */
if (physaddr >> MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS)
@@ -91,9 +92,9 @@ void __head __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr)
* creates a bunch of nonsense entries but that is fine --
* it avoids problems around wraparound.
*/
-
- pud = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[next_early_pgt++], physaddr);
- pmd = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[next_early_pgt++], physaddr);
+ next_pgt_ptr = fixup_pointer(&next_early_pgt, physaddr);
+ pud = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[(*next_pgt_ptr)++], physaddr);
+ pmd = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[(*next_pgt_ptr)++], physaddr);

if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL)) {
p4d = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[next_early_pgt++], physaddr);
--
2.14.1.480.gb18f417b89-goog