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authorMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>2018-09-14 11:14:11 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2018-09-18 22:42:54 +1000
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powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections
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. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.13+ Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 5c8530d0c611..04ccb274a620 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
#endif
unsigned long long memory_limit;
+bool init_mem_is_free;
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
pte_t *kmap_pte;
@@ -396,6 +397,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
{
ppc_md.progress = ppc_printk_progress;
mark_initmem_nx();
+ init_mem_is_free = true;
free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM);
}