This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
to the 6.8-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:
x86-vdso-fix-rethunk-patching-for-vdso-image-32-64-..patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 454f1055b2e80e8f94177e88d6178ba68682f669
Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Feb 19 21:57:18 2024 -0800
x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
[ Upstream commit b388e57d4628eb22782bdad4cd5b83ca87a1b7c9 ]
For CONFIG_RETHUNK kernels, objtool annotates all the function return
sites so they can be patched during boot. By design, after
apply_returns() is called, all tail-calls to the compiler-generated
default return thunk (__x86_return_thunk) should be patched out and
replaced with whatever's needed for any mitigations (or lack thereof).
The commit
4461438a8405 ("x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime")
adds a runtime check and a WARN_ONCE() if the default return thunk ever
gets executed after alternatives have been applied. This warning is
a sanity check to make sure objtool and apply_returns() are doing their
job.
As Nathan reported, that check found something:
Unpatched return thunk in use. This should not happen!
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c:2856 __warn_thunk+0x27/0x40
RIP: 0010:__warn_thunk+0x27/0x40
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_regs
? __warn
? __warn_thunk
? report_bug
? console_unlock
? handle_bug
? exc_invalid_op
? asm_exc_invalid_op
? ia32_binfmt_init
? __warn_thunk
warn_thunk_thunk
do_one_initcall
kernel_init_freeable
? __pfx_kernel_init
kernel_init
ret_from_fork
? __pfx_kernel_init
ret_from_fork_asm
</TASK>
Boris debugged to find that the unpatched return site was in
init_vdso_image_64(), and its translation unit wasn't being analyzed by
objtool, so it never got annotated. So it got ignored by
apply_returns().
This is only a minor issue, as this function is only called during boot.
Still, objtool needs full visibility to the kernel. Fix it by enabling
objtool on vdso-image-{32,64}.o.
Note this problem can only be seen with !CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT, as that
requires objtool to run individually on all translation units rather on
vmlinux.o.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240215032049.GA3944823@dev-arch.thelio-3990X
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
index b1b8dd1608f7e..4ee59121b9053 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
@@ -34,8 +34,12 @@ obj-y += vma.o extable.o
KASAN_SANITIZE_vma.o := y
UBSAN_SANITIZE_vma.o := y
KCSAN_SANITIZE_vma.o := y
-OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vma.o := n
-OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_extable.o := n
+
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_extable.o := n
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vdso-image-32.o := n
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vdso-image-64.o := n
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vdso32-setup.o := n
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vma.o := n
# vDSO images to build
vdso_img-$(VDSO64-y) += 64
@@ -43,7 +47,6 @@ vdso_img-$(VDSOX32-y) += x32
vdso_img-$(VDSO32-y) += 32
obj-$(VDSO32-y) += vdso32-setup.o
-OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vdso32-setup.o := n
vobjs := $(foreach F,$(vobjs-y),$(obj)/$F)
vobjs32 := $(foreach F,$(vobjs32-y),$(obj)/$F)
