[PATCH 4.14 34/45] powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 11 2018 - 11:46:22 EST


4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 51c3c62b58b357e8d35e4cc32f7b4ec907426fe3 upstream.

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.13+
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h | 1 +
arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 6 ++++++
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ extern void ppc_printk_progress(char *s,

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);

--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ static int __patch_instruction(unsigned
{
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;
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
#endif

unsigned long long memory_limit;
+bool init_mem_is_free;

#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
pte_t *kmap_pte;
@@ -405,6 +406,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
{
ppc_md.progress = ppc_printk_progress;
mark_initmem_nx();
+ init_mem_is_free = true;
free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM);
}