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Borislav Petkov 91b9ce04ff x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try
commit a9a3ed1eff3601b63aea4fb462d8b3b92c7c1e7e upstream.

... or the odyssey of trying to disable the stack protector for the
function which generates the stack canary value.

The whole story started with Sergei reporting a boot crash with a kernel
built with gcc-10:

  Kernel panic — not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary
  CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc5—00235—gfffb08b37df9 #139
  Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77M—D3H, BIOS F12 11/14/2013
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack
    panic
    ? start_secondary
    __stack_chk_fail
    start_secondary
    secondary_startup_64
  -—-[ end Kernel panic — not syncing: stack—protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary

This happens because gcc-10 tail-call optimizes the last function call
in start_secondary() - cpu_startup_entry() - and thus emits a stack
canary check which fails because the canary value changes after the
boot_init_stack_canary() call.

To fix that, the initial attempt was to mark the one function which
generates the stack canary with:

  __attribute__((optimize("-fno-stack-protector"))) ... start_secondary(void *unused)

however, using the optimize attribute doesn't work cumulatively
as the attribute does not add to but rather replaces previously
supplied optimization options - roughly all -fxxx options.

The key one among them being -fno-omit-frame-pointer and thus leading to
not present frame pointer - frame pointer which the kernel needs.

The next attempt to prevent compilers from tail-call optimizing
the last function call cpu_startup_entry(), shy of carving out
start_secondary() into a separate compilation unit and building it with
-fno-stack-protector, was to add an empty asm("").

This current solution was short and sweet, and reportedly, is supported
by both compilers but we didn't get very far this time: future (LTO?)
optimization passes could potentially eliminate this, which leads us
to the third attempt: having an actual memory barrier there which the
compiler cannot ignore or move around etc.

That should hold for a long time, but hey we said that about the other
two solutions too so...

Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200314164451.346497-1-slyfox@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-05-20 08:20:34 +02:00
arch x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try 2020-05-20 08:20:34 +02:00
block iocost: protect iocg->abs_vdebt with iocg->waitq.lock 2020-05-14 07:58:27 +02:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto 2020-05-20 08:20:29 +02:00
Documentation USB: hub: Revert commit bd0e6c9614 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices") 2020-04-29 16:33:14 +02:00
drivers drm/amd/display: add basic atomic check for cursor plane 2020-05-20 08:20:33 +02:00
fs cifs: fix leaked reference on requeued write 2020-05-20 08:20:34 +02:00
include x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try 2020-05-20 08:20:34 +02:00
init x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try 2020-05-20 08:20:34 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized 2020-05-20 08:20:28 +02:00
lib lib: devres: add a helper function for ioremap_uc 2020-05-10 10:31:30 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm shmem: fix possible deadlocks on shmlock_user_lock 2020-05-20 08:20:03 +02:00
net net/rds: Use ERR_PTR for rds_message_alloc_sgs() 2020-05-20 08:20:27 +02:00
samples vmalloc: fix remap_vmalloc_range() bounds checks 2020-04-29 16:33:14 +02:00
scripts scripts/decodecode: fix trapping instruction formatting 2020-05-14 07:58:29 +02:00
security selinux: properly handle multiple messages in selinux_netlink_send() 2020-05-06 08:15:17 +02:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Add control message quirk delay for Kingston HyperX headset 2020-05-20 08:20:31 +02:00
tools selftests/ftrace: Check the first record for kprobe_args_type.tc 2020-05-20 08:20:14 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: arm: vgic: Synchronize the whole guest on GIC{D,R}_I{S,C}ACTIVER read 2020-05-20 08:20:04 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
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.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 17:22:19 +01:00
Makefile gcc-10: disable 'restrict' warning for now 2020-05-20 08:20:29 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.