linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] ZBOOT: fix stack protector in compressed boot phase

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Message-ID: <20180322222107.GJ13126@saruman>
Date:   Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:21:08 +0000
From:   James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
To:     Huacai Chen <chenhc@...ote.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] ZBOOT: fix stack protector in compressed boot phase

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 03:55:16PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
> index fdf99e9..5ba431c 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/decompress.c
> @@ -78,11 +78,6 @@ void error(char *x)
>  
>  unsigned long __stack_chk_guard;

...

> diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/head.S
> index 409cb48..00d0ee0 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/head.S
> +++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/head.S
> @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ start:
>  	bne	a2, a0, 1b
>  	 addiu	a0, a0, 4
>  
> +	PTR_LA	a0, __stack_chk_guard
> +	PTR_LI	a1, 0x000a0dff
> +	sw	a1, 0(a0)

Should that not be LONG_S? Otherwise big endian MIPS64 would get a
word-swapped canary (which is probably mostly harmless, but still).

Also I think it worth mentioning in the commit message the MIPS
configuration you hit this with, presumably a Loongson one? For me
decompress_kernel() gets a stack guard on loongson3_defconfig, but not
malta_defconfig or malta_defconfig + 64-bit. I presume its sensitive to
the compiler inlining stuff into decompress_kernel() or something such
that it suddenly qualifies for a stack guard.

Cheers
James

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