commit 51c3c62b58b357e8d35e4cc32f7b4ec907426fe3 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 8 ++++++++ arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h index 703ddf752516..709f4e739ae8 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ 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 753d591f1b52..c77c486fbf24 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c @@ -14,12 +14,20 @@ #include <asm/page.h> #include <asm/code-patching.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> +#include <asm/setup.h> +#include <asm/sections.h> int patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr) { int err; + /* Make sure we aren't patching a freed init section */ + if (init_mem_is_free && init_section_contains(addr, 4)) { + pr_debug("Skipping init section patching addr: 0x%px\n", addr); + return 0; + } + __put_user_size(instr, addr, 4, err); if (err) return err; diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c index 5f844337de21..1e93dbc88e80 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ #endif unsigned long long memory_limit; +bool init_mem_is_free; #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM pte_t *kmap_pte; @@ -396,6 +397,7 @@ void __init mem_init(void) void free_initmem(void) { ppc_md.progress = ppc_printk_progress; + init_mem_is_free = true; free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM); } -- 2.19.1