Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Re: arm64 spectre-bhb backports break boot on stable kernels <= v5.4 | From | James Morse <> | Date | Fri, 8 Apr 2022 17:08:00 +0100 |
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Hi Will,
On 08/04/2022 13:00, Will Deacon wrote: > Booting stable kernels <= v5.4 on arm64 with CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR=n > results in a NULL pointer dereference during boot due to kvm_get_hyp_vector() > dereferencing a NULL pointer from arm64_get_bp_hardening_data(): > > [ 2.384444] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP > [ 2.384461] pstate: 20400085 (nzCv daIf +PAN -UAO) > [ 2.384472] pc : cpu_hyp_reinit+0x114/0x30c > [ 2.384476] lr : cpu_hyp_reinit+0x80/0x30c > [ 2.384477] sp : ffff800010013e20 > [ 2.384479] x29: ffff800010013e20 x28: ffff0000df033f00 > [ 2.384484] x27: ffff800011caa000 x26: ffff0000de58e000 > [ 2.384487] x25: ffff800011e57000 x24: ffff800011caad90 > [ 2.384490] x23: ffff800011c778e0 x22: ffff800011a56000 > [ 2.384494] x21: ffff800011a56000 x20: 0000b471121a6000 > [ 2.384497] x19: 00000000de588000 x18: 0000000000000000 > [ 2.384500] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000400 > [ 2.384503] x15: 0000000000001000 x14: 00000000000007f2 > [ 2.384507] x13: 0000000000000004 x12: 0000000000000002 > [ 2.384510] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 00000000121a6000 > [ 2.384513] x9 : ffff800011c77fd8 x8 : 0000000000000010 > [ 2.384516] x7 : 4f422effff306b64 x6 : 0000008080000000 > [ 2.384519] x5 : 0000008080000000 x4 : ffff800011fabc94 > [ 2.384522] x3 : ffff800011f5bde0 x2 : 0000000000000001 > [ 2.384526] x1 : 00000000121a0000 x0 : ffff8000118f962d > [ 2.384529] Call trace: > [ 2.384533] cpu_hyp_reinit+0x114/0x30c > [ 2.384537] _kvm_arch_hardware_enable+0x30/0x54 > [ 2.384541] flush_smp_call_function_queue+0xe4/0x154 > [ 2.384544] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x10/0x18 > [ 2.384549] ipi_handler+0x170/0x2b0 > [ 2.384555] handle_percpu_devid_fasteoi_ipi+0x120/0x1cc > [ 2.384560] __handle_domain_irq+0x9c/0xf4 > [ 2.384563] gic_handle_irq+0x6c/0xe4 > [ 2.384566] el1_irq+0xf0/0x1c0 > [ 2.384570] arch_cpu_idle+0x28/0x44 > [ 2.384574] do_idle+0x100/0x2a8 > [ 2.384577] cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x24 > [ 2.384581] secondary_start_kernel+0x1b0/0x1cc > [ 2.384589] Code: b9469d08 7100011f 540003ad 52800208 (f9400108) > [ 2.384600] ---[ end trace 266d08dbf96ff143 ]--- > [ 2.385171] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Yikes!
Interesting to know that stuff behind CONFIG_EXPERT has someone who cares about it. (I was going to propose dropping the Kconfig option after a while).
> The faulting load is the access to 'data->template_start', for which the > compiler emits the hilarious: > > mov w8, #0x10 > ldr x8, [x8]
This is nasal-daemon territory, so I guess the compiler can do whatever it likes.
> I can bodge this as below (untested), but it's pretty grotty.
I wanted to keep the detection code even if the feature is disabled so the sysfs reporting is always correct.
> Please can you take a look?
Ugh, arm64_get_bp_hardening_data() returns NULL with that Kconfig setup.
For v5.4, this fixes it for me: --------------------%<-------------------- diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h index 78d110667c0c..ffe0aad96b17 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h @@ -479,7 +479,8 @@ static inline void *kvm_get_hyp_vector(void) int slot = -1;
if ((cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR) || - cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_SPECTRE_BHB)) && data->template_start) { + cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_SPECTRE_BHB)) && + data && data->template_start) { vect = kern_hyp_va(kvm_ksym_ref(__bp_harden_hyp_vecs_start)); slot = data->hyp_vectors_slot; } --------------------%<-------------------- I'll check the other versions and post patches to the stable list. Earlier stable backports grew a dependency between these features as it wasn't possible to unpick the dependencies.
Thanks,
James
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