linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 056/266] powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections

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Message-Id: <20190515090724.336990258@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 15 May 2019 12:52:43 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 056/266] powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections

From: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>

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.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h |    1 +
 arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c            |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ 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
@@ -14,12 +14,25 @@
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/code-patching.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include <asm/setup.h>
+#include <asm/sections.h>
 
 
+static inline bool is_init(unsigned int *addr)
+{
+	return addr >= (unsigned int *)__init_begin && addr < (unsigned int *)__init_end;
+}
+
 int patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr)
 {
 	int err;
 
+	/* Make sure we aren't patching a freed init section */
+	if (init_mem_is_free && is_init(addr)) {
+		pr_debug("Skipping init section patching addr: 0x%px\n", addr);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	__put_user_size(instr, addr, 4, err);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 #endif
 
 unsigned long long memory_limit;
+bool init_mem_is_free;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 pte_t *kmap_pte;
@@ -381,6 +382,7 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 void free_initmem(void)
 {
 	ppc_md.progress = ppc_printk_progress;
+	init_mem_is_free = true;
 	free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM);
 }