Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: memory corruptions due non-disabled PAN

[Pavel Tatashin]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 2:46 PM Pavel Tatashin
<pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > I see that with CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN=y, this means that we may
> > > leave the stale TTBR0 value installed across a context-switch (and have
> > > reproduced that locally), but I'm having some difficulty reproducing the
> > > corruption that you see.
> >
> > I will send the full test shortly. Note, I was never able to reproduce
> > it in QEMU, only on real hardware. Also, for some unknown reason after
> > kexec I could not reproduce it only during first boot, so it is
> > somewhat fragile, but I am sure it can be reproduced in other cases as
> > well, it is just my reproducer is not tunes for that.
> >
>
> Attached is the test program that I used to reproduce memory corruption.
> Test on board with Broadcom's Stingray SoC.

I forgot to remove from repro.c some of the stuff that I used for debugging:
get_pa() and sched_setaffinity() stuff are not needed.

>
> Without fix:
> # time /tmp/repro
> Corruption: pid 1474 map[0] 1488 cpu 3
> Terminated
>
> real    0m0.088s
> user    0m0.004s
> sys     0m0.071s
>
> With the fix:
>
> # time /tmp/repro
> Test passed, all good
> Terminated
>
> real    1m1.286s
> user    0m0.004s
> sys     0m0.970s
>
>
>
> Pasha