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Michael Ellerman 379ea3a4e3 powerpc/64s: Fix crashes when toggling stf barrier
commit 8ec7791bae1327b1c279c5cd6e929c3b12daaf0a upstream.

The STF (store-to-load forwarding) barrier mitigation can be
enabled/disabled at runtime via a debugfs file (stf_barrier), which
causes the kernel to patch itself to enable/disable the relevant
mitigations.

However depending on which mitigation we're using, it may not be safe to
do that patching while other CPUs are active. For example the following
crash:

  User access of kernel address (c00000003fff5af0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
  segfault (11) at c00000003fff5af0 nip 7fff8ad12198 lr 7fff8ad121f8 code 1
  code: 40820128 e93c00d0 e9290058 7c292840 40810058 38600000 4bfd9a81 e8410018
  code: 2c030006 41810154 3860ffb6 e9210098 <e94d8ff0> 7d295279 39400000 40820a3c

Shows that we returned to userspace without restoring the user r13
value, due to executing the partially patched STF exit code.

Fix it by doing the patching under stop machine. The CPUs that aren't
doing the patching will be spinning in the core of the stop machine
logic. That is currently sufficient for our purposes, because none of
the patching we do is to that code or anywhere in the vicinity.

Fixes: a048a07d7f ("powerpc/64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.17+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506044959.1298123-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-19 10:08:29 +02:00
arch powerpc/64s: Fix crashes when toggling stf barrier 2021-05-19 10:08:29 +02:00
block block: only update parent bi_status when bio fail 2021-04-16 11:46:38 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 10:26:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: rng - fix crypto_rng_reset() refcounting when !CRYPTO_STATS 2021-05-11 14:04:15 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: fix typo in NVMEM 2021-04-14 08:24:18 +02:00
drivers i40e: Fix PHY type identifiers for 2.5G and 5G adapters 2021-05-19 10:08:28 +02:00
fs ceph: fix inode leak on getattr error in __fh_to_dentry 2021-05-19 10:08:26 +02:00
include netfilter: xt_SECMARK: add new revision to fix structure layout 2021-05-19 10:08:27 +02:00
init init/Kconfig: make COMPILE_TEST depend on HAS_IOMEM 2021-04-10 13:34:32 +02:00
ipc
kernel kernel: kexec_file: fix error return code of kexec_calculate_store_digests() 2021-05-19 10:08:28 +02:00
lib net: fix nla_strcmp to handle more then one trailing null character 2021-05-19 10:08:27 +02:00
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mm ksm: fix potential missing rmap_item for stable_node 2021-05-19 10:08:27 +02:00
net netfilter: nftables: avoid overflows in nft_hash_buckets() 2021-05-19 10:08:28 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix broken tracex1 due to kprobe argument change 2021-05-19 10:08:23 +02:00
scripts kconfig: nconf: stop endless search loops 2021-05-19 10:08:23 +02:00
security security: commoncap: fix -Wstringop-overread warning 2021-05-11 14:04:16 +02:00
sound ASoC: rt286: Make RT286_SET_GPIO_* readable and writable 2021-05-19 10:08:24 +02:00
tools selftests: Set CC to clang in lib.mk if LLVM is set 2021-05-19 10:08:22 +02:00
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