[PATCH v2 2/3] x86: fix setup of brk area

[Juergen Gross]

Commit e32683c6f7d2 ("x86/mm: Fix RESERVE_BRK() for older binutils")
put the brk area into the .bss..brk section (placed directly behind
.bss), causing it not to be cleared initially. As the brk area is used
to allocate early page tables, these might contain garbage in not
explicitly written entries.

This is especially a problem for Xen PV guests, as the hypervisor will
validate page tables (check for writable page tables and hypervisor
private bits) before accepting them to be used. There have been reports
of early crashes of PV guests due to illegal page table contents.

Fix that by letting clear_bss() clear the brk area, too.

Fixes: e32683c6f7d2 ("x86/mm: Fix RESERVE_BRK() for older binutils")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index e7e233209a8c..6a3cfaf6b72a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -430,6 +430,8 @@ void __init clear_bss(void)
 {
 	memset(__bss_start, 0,
 	       (unsigned long) __bss_stop - (unsigned long) __bss_start);
+	memset(__brk_base, 0,
+	       (unsigned long) __brk_limit - (unsigned long) __brk_base);
 }
 
 static unsigned long get_cmd_line_ptr(void)
-- 
2.35.3