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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2019-06-21 08:43:04 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-08-06 19:05:29 +0200
commit2c04e80a6c4f1795ae296e2d7ab8f88d1abd9316 (patch)
tree1062e7a2acb0656ee6f9099f6087d16af43360a0 /arch/x86/entry
parentf73e82454497200f2b1b60aeea47db81d53e5cbf (diff)
x86/vdso: Prevent segfaults due to hoisted vclock reads
commit ff17bbe0bb405ad8b36e55815d381841f9fdeebc upstream. GCC 5.5.0 sometimes cleverly hoists reads of the pvclock and/or hvclock pages before the vclock mode checks. This creates a path through vclock_gettime() in which no vclock is enabled at all (due to disabled TSC on old CPUs, for example) but the pvclock or hvclock page nevertheless read. This will segfault on bare metal. This fixes commit 459e3a21535a ("gcc-9: properly declare the {pv,hv}clock_page storage") in the sense that, before that commit, GCC didn't seem to generate the offending code. There was nothing wrong with that commit per se, and -stable maintainers should backport this to all supported kernels regardless of whether the offending commit was present, since the same crash could just as easily be triggered by the phase of the moon. On GCC 9.1.1, this doesn't seem to affect the generated code at all, so I'm not too concerned about performance regressions from this fix. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Reported-by: Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@optusnet.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index 492559339032..9f4b1081dee0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -191,13 +191,24 @@ notrace static inline u64 vgetsns(int *mode)
if (gtod->vclock_mode == VCLOCK_TSC)
cycles = vread_tsc();
+
+ /*
+ * For any memory-mapped vclock type, we need to make sure that gcc
+ * doesn't cleverly hoist a load before the mode check. Otherwise we
+ * might end up touching the memory-mapped page even if the vclock in
+ * question isn't enabled, which will segfault. Hence the barriers.
+ */
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK
- else if (gtod->vclock_mode == VCLOCK_PVCLOCK)
+ else if (gtod->vclock_mode == VCLOCK_PVCLOCK) {
+ barrier();
cycles = vread_pvclock(mode);
+ }
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HYPERV_TSCPAGE
- else if (gtod->vclock_mode == VCLOCK_HVCLOCK)
+ else if (gtod->vclock_mode == VCLOCK_HVCLOCK) {
+ barrier();
cycles = vread_hvclock(mode);
+ }
#endif
else
return 0;