linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 5/5] x86/retpoline: Make sure there are no unconverted return thunks due to KCSAN

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Message-ID: <20231106230622.3734225-5-sashal@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon,  6 Nov 2023 18:06:11 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, masahiroy@...nel.org,
        samitolvanen@...gle.com, keescook@...omium.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 5/5] x86/retpoline: Make sure there are no unconverted return thunks due to KCSAN

From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>

[ Upstream commit 2d7ce49f58dc95495b3e22e45d2be7de909b2c63 ]

Enabling CONFIG_KCSAN leads to unconverted, default return thunks to
remain after patching.

As David Kaplan describes in his debugging of the issue, it is caused by
a couple of KCSAN-generated constructors which aren't processed by
objtool:

  "When KCSAN is enabled, GCC generates lots of constructor functions
  named _sub_I_00099_0 which call __tsan_init and then return.  The
  returns in these are generally annotated normally by objtool and fixed
  up at runtime.  But objtool runs on vmlinux.o and vmlinux.o does not
  include a couple of object files that are in vmlinux, like
  init/version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o, both of which contain
  _sub_I_00099_0 functions.  As a result, the returns in these functions
  are not annotated, and the panic occurs when we call one of them in
  do_ctors and it uses the default return thunk.

  This difference can be seen by counting the number of these functions in the object files:
  $ objdump -d vmlinux.o|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:"
  2601
  $ objdump -d vmlinux|grep -c "<_sub_I_00099_0>:"
  2603

  If these functions are only run during kernel boot, there is no
  speculation concern."

Fix it by disabling KCSAN on version-timestamp.o and .vmlinux.export.o
so the extra functions don't get generated.  KASAN and GCOV are already
disabled for those files.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231016214810.GA3942238@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@...en8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017165946.v4i2d4exyqwqq3bx@treble
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 init/Makefile            | 1 +
 scripts/Makefile.vmlinux | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/init/Makefile b/init/Makefile
index ec557ada3c12e..cbac576c57d63 100644
--- a/init/Makefile
+++ b/init/Makefile
@@ -60,4 +60,5 @@ include/generated/utsversion.h: FORCE
 $(obj)/version-timestamp.o: include/generated/utsversion.h
 CFLAGS_version-timestamp.o := -include include/generated/utsversion.h
 KASAN_SANITIZE_version-timestamp.o := n
+KCSAN_SANITIZE_version-timestamp.o := n
 GCOV_PROFILE_version-timestamp.o := n
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
index 3cd6ca15f390d..c9f3e03124d7f 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ quiet_cmd_cc_o_c = CC      $@
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
 KASAN_SANITIZE_.vmlinux.export.o := n
+KCSAN_SANITIZE_.vmlinux.export.o := n
 GCOV_PROFILE_.vmlinux.export.o := n
 targets += .vmlinux.export.o
 vmlinux: .vmlinux.export.o
-- 
2.42.0