linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.4 18/43] arm64: entry: Add macro for reading symbol addresses from the trampoline

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Message-ID: <0721f050-d6db-ce33-3b59-465c75d73a24@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:33:21 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 18/43] arm64: entry: Add macro for reading symbol
 addresses from the trampoline



On 3/18/2022 5:11 AM, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> On 3/17/22 8:48 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 3/17/22 5:45 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> From: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
>>>
>>> commit b28a8eebe81c186fdb1a0078263b30576c8e1f42 upstream.
>>>
>>> The trampoline code needs to use the address of symbols in the wider
>>> kernel, e.g. vectors. PC-relative addressing wouldn't work as the
>>> trampoline code doesn't run at the address the linker expected.
>>>
>>> tramp_ventry uses a literal pool, unless CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is
>>> set, in which case it uses the data page as a literal pool because
>>> the data page can be unmapped when running in user-space, which is
>>> required for CPUs vulnerable to meltdown.
>>>
>>> Pull this logic out as a macro, instead of adding a third copy
>>> of it.
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
>>> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>>
>> This commit causes a linking failure with CONFIG_ARM_SDE_INTERFACE=y
>> enabled in the kernel:
>>
>>    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
>> /local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm64/host/bin/aarch64-linux-ld:
>> arch/arm64/kernel/entry.o: in function `__sdei_asm_exit_trampoline':
>> /local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm64/build/linux-custom/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:1352: 
>>
>> undefined reference to `__sdei_asm_trampoline_next_handler'
>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1100: vmlinux] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [package/pkg-generic.mk:295:
>> /local/users/fainelli/buildroot/output/arm64/build/linux-custom/.stamp_built] 
>>
>> Error 2
>> make: *** [Makefile:27: _all] Error 2
> 
> ... and with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE turned off, which is why allyesconfig 
> didn't catch it.

Yes that is correct CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is turned off in the 
configuration file I used.

> This is because I kept the next_handler bit of the label when it 
> conflicted, which isn't needed
> because the __entry_tramp bit added by the macro serves the same purpose.
> 
> The below diff fixes it:
> ----------%<----------
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> index e4b5a15c2e2e..cfc0bb6c49f7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ __entry_tramp_data_start:
>   __entry_tramp_data_vectors:
>          .quad   vectors
>   #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_SDE_INTERFACE
> -__entry_tramp_data___sdei_asm_trampoline_next_handler:
> +__entry_tramp_data___sdei_asm_handler:
>          .quad   __sdei_asm_handler
>   #endif /* CONFIG_ARM_SDE_INTERFACE */
>          .popsection                             // .rodata
> @@ -1319,7 +1319,7 @@ ENTRY(__sdei_asm_entry_trampoline)
>           */
>   1:     str     x4, [x1, #(SDEI_EVENT_INTREGS + S_ORIG_ADDR_LIMIT)]
> 
> -       tramp_data_read_var     x4, __sdei_asm_trampoline_next_handler
> +       tramp_data_read_var     x4, __sdei_asm_handler
>          br      x4
>   ENDPROC(__sdei_asm_entry_trampoline)
>   NOKPROBE(__sdei_asm_entry_trampoline)
> ----------%<----------
> 
> Good news - this didn't happen with v5.10.
> 
> I don't see this in v5.4.185 yet.
> 
> Greg/Sasha, what is least work for you?:
> A new version of this patch,
> A fixup on top of the series,
> Reposting the series with this fixed.

FWIW, applying your patch on top of the entire 5.4.186-rc1 series will 
fail with some rejects so that would require you to fixup the patch 
instead, and then I suppose the whole -rc1 now becomes an -rc2?

> 
> 
> Thanks for catching this!

Thanks for the quick turnaround:

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian