This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390: fix nospec table alignments
to the 5.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
s390-fix-nospec-table-alignments.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c9305b6c1f52060377c72aebe3a701389e9f3172 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:55:44 -0700
Subject: s390: fix nospec table alignments
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c9305b6c1f52060377c72aebe3a701389e9f3172 upstream.
Add proper alignment for .nospec_call_table and .nospec_return_table in
vmlinux.
[hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]: The problem with the missing alignment of the nospec
tables exist since a long time, however only since commit e6ed91fd0768
("s390/alternatives: remove padding generation code") and with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n the kernel may also crash at boot time.
The above named commit reduced the size of struct alt_instr by one byte,
so its new size is 11 bytes. Therefore depending on the number of cpu
alternatives the size of the __alt_instructions array maybe odd, which
again also causes that the addresses of the nospec tables will be odd.
If the address of __nospec_call_start is odd and the kernel is compiled
With CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n the compiler may generate code that loads the
address of __nospec_call_start with a 'larl' instruction.
This will generate incorrect code since the 'larl' instruction only works
with even addresses. In result the members of the nospec tables will be
accessed with an off-by-one offset, which subsequently may lead to
addressing exceptions within __nospec_revert().
Fixes: f19fbd5ed642 ("s390: introduce execute-trampolines for branches")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8719bf1ce4a72ebdeb575200290094e9ce047bcc.1661557333.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.16
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ SECTIONS
/*
* Table with the patch locations to undo expolines
*/
+ . = ALIGN(4);
.nospec_call_table : {
__nospec_call_start = . ;
*(.s390_indirect*)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.19/s390-fix-nospec-table-alignments.patch
