FAILED: patch "[PATCH] powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 51c3c62b58b357e8d35e4cc32f7b4ec907426fe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:14:11 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.13+
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
index 1a951b00465d..1fffbba8d6a5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ extern void ppc_printk_progress(char *s, unsigned short hex);
 
 extern unsigned int rtas_data;
 extern unsigned long long memory_limit;
+extern bool init_mem_is_free;
 extern unsigned long klimit;
 extern void *zalloc_maybe_bootmem(size_t size, gfp_t mask);
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index 850f3b8f4da5..6ae2777c220d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ static int __patch_instruction(unsigned int *exec_addr, unsigned int instr,
 {
 	int err;
 
+	/* Make sure we aren't patching a freed init section */
+	if (init_mem_is_free && init_section_contains(exec_addr, 4)) {
+		pr_debug("Skipping init section patching addr: 0x%px\n", exec_addr);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	__put_user_size(instr, patch_addr, 4, err);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
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);
 }