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Commit 1b9c0a17 authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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powerpc/64: Prevent stack protection in early boot

commit 7053f80d upstream.

The previous commit reduced the amount of code that is run before we
setup a paca. However there are still a few remaining functions that
run with no paca, or worse, with an arbitrary value in r13 that will
be used as a paca pointer.

In particular the stack protector canary is stored in the paca, so if
stack protector is activated for any of these functions we will read
the stack canary from wherever r13 points. If r13 happens to point
outside of memory we will get a machine check / checkstop.

For example if we modify initialise_paca() to trigger stack
protection, and then boot in the mambo simulator with r13 poisoned in
skiboot before calling the kernel:

  DEBUG: 19952232: (19952232): INSTRUCTION: PC=0xC0000000191FC1E8: [0x3C4C006D]: addis   r2,r12,0x6D [fetch]
  DEBUG: 19952236: (19952236): INSTRUCTION: PC=0xC00000001807EAD8: [0x7D8802A6]: mflr    r12 [fetch]
  FATAL ERROR: 19952276: (19952276): Check Stop for 0:0: Machine Check with ME bit of MSR off
  DEBUG: 19952276: (19952276): INSTRUCTION: PC=0xC0000000191FCA7C: [0xE90D0CF8]: ld      r8,0xCF8(r13) [Instruction Failed]
  INFO: 19952276: (19952277): ** Execution stopped: Mambo Error, Machine Check Stop,  **
  systemsim % bt
  pc:                             0xC0000000191FCA7C      initialise_paca+0x54
  lr:                             0xC0000000191FC22C      early_setup+0x44
  stack:0x00000000198CBED0        0x0     +0x0
  stack:0x00000000198CBF00        0xC0000000191FC22C      early_setup+0x44
  stack:0x00000000198CBF90        0x1801C968      +0x1801C968

So annotate the relevant functions to ensure stack protection is never
enabled for them.

Fixes: 06ec27ae

 ("powerpc/64: add stack protector support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200320032116.1024773-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 53bed8c1
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