linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] RISC-V: Check clint_time

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Date:   Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:52:19 +0000
From:   Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>
To:     "paul.walmsley@...ive.com" <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        "palmer@...belt.com" <palmer@...belt.com>,
        "palmerdabbelt@...gle.com" <palmerdabbelt@...gle.com>,
        Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@....com>,
        "aou@...s.berkeley.edu" <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>
CC:     "anup@...infault.org" <anup@...infault.org>,
        "linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@....com>,
        Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] RISC-V: Check clint_time_val before use

On Sun, 2020-09-27 at 11:09 +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> The NoMMU kernel is broken for QEMU virt machine from Linux-5.9-rc6
> because clint_time_val is used even before CLINT driver is probed
> at following places:
> 1. rand_initialize() calls get_cycles() which in-turn uses
>    clint_time_val
> 2. boot_init_stack_canary() calls get_cycles() which in-turn
>    uses clint_time_val
> 
> The issue#1 (above) is fixed by providing custom random_get_entropy()
> for RISC-V NoMMU kernel. For issue#2 (above), we remove dependency of
> boot_init_stack_canary() on get_cycles() and this is aligned with the
> boot_init_stack_canary() implementations of ARM, ARM64 and MIPS kernel.
> 
> Fixes: d5be89a8d118 ("RISC-V: Resurrect the MMIO timer implementation
> for M-mode systems")
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>
> ---
> Changes since v2:
>  - Take different approach and provide custom random_get_entropy() for
>    RISC-V NoMMU kernel
>  - Remove dependency of boot_init_stack_canary() on get_cycles()
>  - Hopefully we don't require to set clint_time_val = NULL in CLINT
>    driver with a different approach to fix.
> Changes since v1:
>  - Explicitly initialize clint_time_val to NULL in CLINT driver to
>    avoid hang on Kendryte K210
> ---
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h |  4 ----
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h          | 13 +++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h
> index d95f7b2a7f37..5962f8891f06 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/stackprotector.h
> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/random.h>
>  #include <linux/version.h>
> -#include <asm/timex.h>
>  
>  extern unsigned long __stack_chk_guard;
>  
> @@ -18,12 +17,9 @@ extern unsigned long __stack_chk_guard;
>  static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
>  {
>  	unsigned long canary;
> -	unsigned long tsc;
>  
>  	/* Try to get a semi random initial value. */
>  	get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary));
> -	tsc = get_cycles();
> -	canary += tsc + (tsc << BITS_PER_LONG/2);
>  	canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
>  	canary &= CANARY_MASK;
>  
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
> index 7f659dda0032..ab104905d4db 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
> @@ -33,6 +33,19 @@ static inline u32 get_cycles_hi(void)
>  #define get_cycles_hi get_cycles_hi
>  #endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
>  
> +/*
> + * Much like MIPS, we may not have a viable counter to use at an early point
> + * in the boot process. Unfortunately we don't have a fallback, so instead
> + * we just return 0.
> + */
> +static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
> +{
> +	if (unlikely(clint_time_val == NULL))
> +		return 0;
> +	return get_cycles();
> +}
> +#define random_get_entropy()	random_get_entropy()
> +
>  #else /* CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE */
>  
>  static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)

Did not reply to the patch... So again for Kendryte:

Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital