linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 152/183] powerpc/kernel: Avoid memory corruption at early stage

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Date:	Fri,  6 Mar 2015 09:57:23 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 152/183] powerpc/kernel: Avoid memory corruption at early stage

3.16.7-ckt8 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 6f20e7f2e930211613a66d0603fa4abaaf3ce662 upstream.

When calling to early_setup(), we pick "boot_paca" up for the master CPU
and initialize that with initialise_paca(). At that point, the SLB
shadow buffer isn't populated yet. Updating the SLB shadow buffer should
corrupt what we had in physical address 0 where the trap instruction is
usually stored.

This hasn't been observed to cause any trouble in practice, but is
obviously fishy.

Fixes: 6f4441ef7009 ("powerpc: Dynamically allocate slb_shadow from memblock")
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c
index d6e195e8cd4c..5a23b69f8129 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c
@@ -115,6 +115,14 @@ static struct slb_shadow * __init init_slb_shadow(int cpu)
 {
 	struct slb_shadow *s = &slb_shadow[cpu];
 
+	/*
+	 * When we come through here to initialise boot_paca, the slb_shadow
+	 * buffers are not allocated yet. That's OK, we'll get one later in
+	 * boot, but make sure we don't corrupt memory at 0.
+	 */
+	if (!slb_shadow)
+		return NULL;
+
 	s->persistent = cpu_to_be32(SLB_NUM_BOLTED);
 	s->buffer_length = cpu_to_be32(sizeof(*s));
 
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