Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:45:36 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | [PATCH] x86/mm: Do not verify W^X at boot up |
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From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Adding on the kernel command line "ftrace=function" triggered:
------------[ cut here ]------------ CPA detected W^X violation: 8000000000000063 -> 0000000000000063 range: 0xffffffffc0013000 - 0xffffffffc0013fff PFN 10031b WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:609 verify_rwx+0x61/0x6d Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1-test+ #3 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014 RIP: 0010:verify_rwx+0x61/0x6d Code: e5 01 00 75 27 49 c1 e0 0c 48 89 d1 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 5b b3 92 84 4e 8d 44 02 ff 48 89 da c6 05 71 29 e5 01 01 e8 35 90 e2 00 <0f> 0b 48 89 d8 5b 5d e9 6f 95 1a 01 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 RSP: 0000:ffffffff84c03b08 EFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000063 RCX: 0000000000000003 RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: ffffffff84c039b0 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffffffff84c03b10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000025 R12: ffff8e730031c098 R13: 000000000010031b R14: 800000010031b063 R15: 8000000000000063 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e7416a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff8e73fd801000 CR3: 00000001fcc22001 CR4: 00000000000606f0 Call Trace: <TASK> __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x146/0x8a6 ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x41/0x213 ? mutex_unlock+0x12/0x18 ? _vm_unmap_aliases+0x126/0x136 change_page_attr_set_clr+0x135/0x268 ? find_vmap_area+0x32/0x3e ? __fentry__+0x10/0x10 change_page_attr_clear.constprop.0+0x16/0x1c set_memory_x+0x2c/0x32 arch_ftrace_update_trampoline+0x218/0x2db ? ftrace_caller_op_ptr+0x17/0x17 ftrace_update_trampoline+0x16/0xa1 ? tracing_gen_ctx+0x1c/0x1c __register_ftrace_function+0x93/0xb2 ftrace_startup+0x21/0xf0 ? tracing_gen_ctx+0x1c/0x1c register_ftrace_function_nolock+0x26/0x40 register_ftrace_function+0x4e/0x143 ? mutex_unlock+0x12/0x18 ? tracing_gen_ctx+0x1c/0x1c function_trace_init+0x7d/0xc3 tracer_init+0x23/0x2c tracing_set_tracer+0x1d5/0x206 register_tracer+0x1c0/0x1e4 init_function_trace+0x90/0x96 early_trace_init+0x25c/0x352 start_kernel+0x424/0x6e4 x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x2a x86_64_start_kernel+0x8c/0x95 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xe0/0xeb </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
This is because at boot up, kernel text is writable, and there's no reason to do tricks to updated it. But the verifier does not distinguish updates at boot up and at run time, and causes a warning at time of boot.
Add a check for system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING and allow it if that is the case.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221024112730.180916b3@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 652c5bf380ad0 ("x86/mm: Refuse W^X violations") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> --- arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c index 97342c42dda8..2e5a045731de 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c @@ -587,6 +587,10 @@ static inline pgprot_t verify_rwx(pgprot_t old, pgprot_t new, unsigned long star { unsigned long end; + /* Kernel text is rw at boot up */ + if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING) + return new; + /* * 32-bit has some unfixable W+X issues, like EFI code * and writeable data being in the same page. Disable -- 2.35.1
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