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<entry>
<title>arm64: entry: Allow the trampoline text to occupy multiple pages</title>
<updated>2022-03-19T12:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-15T18:24:06+00:00</published>
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commit a9c406e6462ff14956d690de7bbe5131a5677dc9 upstream.

Adding a second set of vectors to .entry.tramp.text will make it
larger than a single 4K page.

Allow the trampoline text to occupy up to three pages by adding two
more fixmap slots. Previous changes to tramp_valias allowed it to reach
beyond a single page.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit a9c406e6462ff14956d690de7bbe5131a5677dc9 upstream.

Adding a second set of vectors to .entry.tramp.text will make it
larger than a single 4K page.

Allow the trampoline text to occupy up to three pages by adding two
more fixmap slots. Previous changes to tramp_valias allowed it to reach
beyond a single page.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: consistently use reserved_pg_dir</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T14:53:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-03T10:22:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 833be850f1cabd0e3b5337c0fcab20a6e936dd48 ]

Depending on configuration options and specific code paths, we either
use the empty_zero_page or the configuration-dependent reserved_ttbr0
as a reserved value for TTBR{0,1}_EL1.

To simplify this code, let's always allocate and use the same
reserved_pg_dir, replacing reserved_ttbr0. Note that this is allocated
(and hence pre-zeroed), and is also marked as read-only in the kernel
Image mapping.

Keeping this separate from the empty_zero_page potentially helps with
robustness as the empty_zero_page is used in a number of cases where a
failure to map it read-only could allow it to become corrupted.

The (presently unused) swapper_pg_end symbol is also removed, and
comments are added wherever we rely on the offsets between the
pre-allocated pg_dirs to keep these cases easily identifiable.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201103102229.8542-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 833be850f1cabd0e3b5337c0fcab20a6e936dd48 ]

Depending on configuration options and specific code paths, we either
use the empty_zero_page or the configuration-dependent reserved_ttbr0
as a reserved value for TTBR{0,1}_EL1.

To simplify this code, let's always allocate and use the same
reserved_pg_dir, replacing reserved_ttbr0. Note that this is allocated
(and hence pre-zeroed), and is also marked as read-only in the kernel
Image mapping.

Keeping this separate from the empty_zero_page potentially helps with
robustness as the empty_zero_page is used in a number of cases where a
failure to map it read-only could allow it to become corrupted.

The (presently unused) swapper_pg_end symbol is also removed, and
comments are added wherever we rely on the offsets between the
pre-allocated pg_dirs to keep these cases easily identifiable.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201103102229.8542-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: insn: consistently handle exit text</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T11:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-02T16:11:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ca2ef4ffabbef25644e02a98b0f48869f8be0375 ]

A kernel built with KASAN &amp;&amp; FTRACE_WITH_REGS &amp;&amp; !MODULES, produces a
boot-time splat in the bowels of ftrace:

| [    0.000000] ftrace: allocating 32281 entries in 127 pages
| [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
| [    0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2019 ftrace_bug+0x27c/0x328
| [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3-00008-g7f08ae53a7e3 #13
| [    0.000000] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| [    0.000000] pstate: 60000085 (nZCv daIf -PAN -UAO)
| [    0.000000] pc : ftrace_bug+0x27c/0x328
| [    0.000000] lr : ftrace_init+0x640/0x6cc
| [    0.000000] sp : ffffa000120e7e00
| [    0.000000] x29: ffffa000120e7e00 x28: ffff00006ac01b10
| [    0.000000] x27: ffff00006ac898c0 x26: dfffa00000000000
| [    0.000000] x25: ffffa000120ef290 x24: ffffa0001216df40
| [    0.000000] x23: 000000000000018d x22: ffffa0001244c700
| [    0.000000] x21: ffffa00011bf393c x20: ffff00006ac898c0
| [    0.000000] x19: 00000000ffffffff x18: 0000000000001584
| [    0.000000] x17: 0000000000001540 x16: 0000000000000007
| [    0.000000] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: ffffa00010432770
| [    0.000000] x13: ffff940002483519 x12: 1ffff40002483518
| [    0.000000] x11: 1ffff40002483518 x10: ffff940002483518
| [    0.000000] x9 : dfffa00000000000 x8 : 0000000000000001
| [    0.000000] x7 : ffff940002483519 x6 : ffffa0001241a8c0
| [    0.000000] x5 : ffff940002483519 x4 : ffff940002483519
| [    0.000000] x3 : ffffa00011780870 x2 : 0000000000000001
| [    0.000000] x1 : 1fffe0000d591318 x0 : 0000000000000000
| [    0.000000] Call trace:
| [    0.000000]  ftrace_bug+0x27c/0x328
| [    0.000000]  ftrace_init+0x640/0x6cc
| [    0.000000]  start_kernel+0x27c/0x654
| [    0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from print_oops_end_marker+0x30/0x60 with crng_init=0
| [    0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
| [    0.000000] ftrace faulted on writing
| [    0.000000] [&lt;ffffa00011bf393c&gt;] _GLOBAL__sub_D_65535_0___tracepoint_initcall_level+0x4/0x28
| [    0.000000] Initializing ftrace call sites
| [    0.000000] ftrace record flags: 0
| [    0.000000]  (0)
| [    0.000000]  expected tramp: ffffa000100b3344

This is due to an unfortunate combination of several factors.

Building with KASAN results in the compiler generating anonymous
functions to register/unregister global variables against the shadow
memory. These functions are placed in .text.startup/.text.exit, and
given mangled names like _GLOBAL__sub_{I,D}_65535_0_$OTHER_SYMBOL. The
kernel linker script places these in .init.text and .exit.text
respectively, which are both discarded at runtime as part of initmem.

Building with FTRACE_WITH_REGS uses -fpatchable-function-entry=2, which
also instruments KASAN's anonymous functions. When these are discarded
with the rest of initmem, ftrace removes dangling references to these
call sites.

Building without MODULES implicitly disables STRICT_MODULE_RWX, and
causes arm64's patch_map() function to treat any !core_kernel_text()
symbol as something that can be modified in-place. As core_kernel_text()
is only true for .text and .init.text, with the latter depending on
system_state &lt; SYSTEM_RUNNING, we'll treat .exit.text as something that
can be patched in-place. However, .exit.text is mapped read-only.

Hence in this configuration the ftrace init code blows up while trying
to patch one of the functions generated by KASAN.

We could try to filter out the call sites in .exit.text rather than
initializing them, but this would be inconsistent with how we handle
.init.text, and requires hooking into core bits of ftrace. The behaviour
of patch_map() is also inconsistent today, so instead let's clean that
up and have it consistently handle .exit.text.

This patch teaches patch_map() to handle .exit.text at init time,
preventing the boot-time splat above. The flow of patch_map() is
reworked to make the logic clearer and minimize redundant
conditionality.

Fixes: 3b23e4991fb66f6d ("arm64: implement ftrace with regs")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap &lt;amit.kachhap@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ca2ef4ffabbef25644e02a98b0f48869f8be0375 ]

A kernel built with KASAN &amp;&amp; FTRACE_WITH_REGS &amp;&amp; !MODULES, produces a
boot-time splat in the bowels of ftrace:

| [    0.000000] ftrace: allocating 32281 entries in 127 pages
| [    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
| [    0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2019 ftrace_bug+0x27c/0x328
| [    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3-00008-g7f08ae53a7e3 #13
| [    0.000000] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| [    0.000000] pstate: 60000085 (nZCv daIf -PAN -UAO)
| [    0.000000] pc : ftrace_bug+0x27c/0x328
| [    0.000000] lr : ftrace_init+0x640/0x6cc
| [    0.000000] sp : ffffa000120e7e00
| [    0.000000] x29: ffffa000120e7e00 x28: ffff00006ac01b10
| [    0.000000] x27: ffff00006ac898c0 x26: dfffa00000000000
| [    0.000000] x25: ffffa000120ef290 x24: ffffa0001216df40
| [    0.000000] x23: 000000000000018d x22: ffffa0001244c700
| [    0.000000] x21: ffffa00011bf393c x20: ffff00006ac898c0
| [    0.000000] x19: 00000000ffffffff x18: 0000000000001584
| [    0.000000] x17: 0000000000001540 x16: 0000000000000007
| [    0.000000] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: ffffa00010432770
| [    0.000000] x13: ffff940002483519 x12: 1ffff40002483518
| [    0.000000] x11: 1ffff40002483518 x10: ffff940002483518
| [    0.000000] x9 : dfffa00000000000 x8 : 0000000000000001
| [    0.000000] x7 : ffff940002483519 x6 : ffffa0001241a8c0
| [    0.000000] x5 : ffff940002483519 x4 : ffff940002483519
| [    0.000000] x3 : ffffa00011780870 x2 : 0000000000000001
| [    0.000000] x1 : 1fffe0000d591318 x0 : 0000000000000000
| [    0.000000] Call trace:
| [    0.000000]  ftrace_bug+0x27c/0x328
| [    0.000000]  ftrace_init+0x640/0x6cc
| [    0.000000]  start_kernel+0x27c/0x654
| [    0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from print_oops_end_marker+0x30/0x60 with crng_init=0
| [    0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
| [    0.000000] ftrace faulted on writing
| [    0.000000] [&lt;ffffa00011bf393c&gt;] _GLOBAL__sub_D_65535_0___tracepoint_initcall_level+0x4/0x28
| [    0.000000] Initializing ftrace call sites
| [    0.000000] ftrace record flags: 0
| [    0.000000]  (0)
| [    0.000000]  expected tramp: ffffa000100b3344

This is due to an unfortunate combination of several factors.

Building with KASAN results in the compiler generating anonymous
functions to register/unregister global variables against the shadow
memory. These functions are placed in .text.startup/.text.exit, and
given mangled names like _GLOBAL__sub_{I,D}_65535_0_$OTHER_SYMBOL. The
kernel linker script places these in .init.text and .exit.text
respectively, which are both discarded at runtime as part of initmem.

Building with FTRACE_WITH_REGS uses -fpatchable-function-entry=2, which
also instruments KASAN's anonymous functions. When these are discarded
with the rest of initmem, ftrace removes dangling references to these
call sites.

Building without MODULES implicitly disables STRICT_MODULE_RWX, and
causes arm64's patch_map() function to treat any !core_kernel_text()
symbol as something that can be modified in-place. As core_kernel_text()
is only true for .text and .init.text, with the latter depending on
system_state &lt; SYSTEM_RUNNING, we'll treat .exit.text as something that
can be patched in-place. However, .exit.text is mapped read-only.

Hence in this configuration the ftrace init code blows up while trying
to patch one of the functions generated by KASAN.

We could try to filter out the call sites in .exit.text rather than
initializing them, but this would be inconsistent with how we handle
.init.text, and requires hooking into core bits of ftrace. The behaviour
of patch_map() is also inconsistent today, so instead let's clean that
up and have it consistently handle .exit.text.

This patch teaches patch_map() to handle .exit.text at init time,
preventing the boot-time splat above. The flow of patch_map() is
reworked to make the logic clearer and minimize redundant
conditionality.

Fixes: 3b23e4991fb66f6d ("arm64: implement ftrace with regs")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap &lt;amit.kachhap@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Torsten Duwe &lt;duwe@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Add kvm_extable for vaxorcism code</title>
<updated>2020-09-05T09:22:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-21T14:07:05+00:00</published>
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commit e9ee186bb735bfc17fa81dbc9aebf268aee5b41e upstream.

KVM has a one instruction window where it will allow an SError exception
to be consumed by the hypervisor without treating it as a hypervisor bug.
This is used to consume asynchronous external abort that were caused by
the guest.

As we are about to add another location that survives unexpected exceptions,
generalise this code to make it behave like the host's extable.

KVM's version has to be mapped to EL2 to be accessible on nVHE systems.

The SError vaxorcism code is a one instruction window, so has two entries
in the extable. Because the KVM code is copied for VHE and nVHE, we end up
with four entries, half of which correspond with code that isn't mapped.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.4.x
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e9ee186bb735bfc17fa81dbc9aebf268aee5b41e upstream.

KVM has a one instruction window where it will allow an SError exception
to be consumed by the hypervisor without treating it as a hypervisor bug.
This is used to consume asynchronous external abort that were caused by
the guest.

As we are about to add another location that survives unexpected exceptions,
generalise this code to make it behave like the host's extable.

KVM's version has to be mapped to EL2 to be accessible on nVHE systems.

The SError vaxorcism code is a one instruction window, so has two entries
in the extable. Because the KVM code is copied for VHE and nVHE, we end up
with four entries, half of which correspond with code that isn't mapped.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.4.x
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/alternatives: use subsections for replacement sequences</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T07:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-30T08:19:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f7b93d42945cc71e1346dd5ae07c59061d56745e ]

When building very large kernels, the logic that emits replacement
sequences for alternatives fails when relative branches are present
in the code that is emitted into the .altinstr_replacement section
and patched in at the original site and fixed up. The reason is that
the linker will insert veneers if relative branches go out of range,
and due to the relative distance of the .altinstr_replacement from
the .text section where its branch targets usually live, veneers
may be emitted at the end of the .altinstr_replacement section, with
the relative branches in the sequence pointed at the veneers instead
of the actual target.

The alternatives patching logic will attempt to fix up the branch to
point to its original target, which will be the veneer in this case,
but given that the patch site is likely to be far away as well, it
will be out of range and so patching will fail. There are other cases
where these veneers are problematic, e.g., when the target of the
branch is in .text while the patch site is in .init.text, in which
case putting the replacement sequence inside .text may not help either.

So let's use subsections to emit the replacement code as closely as
possible to the patch site, to ensure that veneers are only likely to
be emitted if they are required at the patch site as well, in which
case they will be in range for the replacement sequence both before
and after it is transported to the patch site.

This will prevent alternative sequences in non-init code from being
released from memory after boot, but this is tolerable given that the
entire section is only 512 KB on an allyesconfig build (which weighs in
at 500+ MB for the entire Image). Also, note that modules today carry
the replacement sequences in non-init sections as well, and any of
those that target init code will be emitted into init sections after
this change.

This fixes an early crash when booting an allyesconfig kernel on a
system where any of the alternatives sequences containing relative
branches are activated at boot (e.g., ARM64_HAS_PAN on TX2)

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave P Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630081921.13443-1-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f7b93d42945cc71e1346dd5ae07c59061d56745e ]

When building very large kernels, the logic that emits replacement
sequences for alternatives fails when relative branches are present
in the code that is emitted into the .altinstr_replacement section
and patched in at the original site and fixed up. The reason is that
the linker will insert veneers if relative branches go out of range,
and due to the relative distance of the .altinstr_replacement from
the .text section where its branch targets usually live, veneers
may be emitted at the end of the .altinstr_replacement section, with
the relative branches in the sequence pointed at the veneers instead
of the actual target.

The alternatives patching logic will attempt to fix up the branch to
point to its original target, which will be the veneer in this case,
but given that the patch site is likely to be far away as well, it
will be out of range and so patching will fail. There are other cases
where these veneers are problematic, e.g., when the target of the
branch is in .text while the patch site is in .init.text, in which
case putting the replacement sequence inside .text may not help either.

So let's use subsections to emit the replacement code as closely as
possible to the patch site, to ensure that veneers are only likely to
be emitted if they are required at the patch site as well, in which
case they will be in range for the replacement sequence both before
and after it is transported to the patch site.

This will prevent alternative sequences in non-init code from being
released from memory after boot, but this is tolerable given that the
entire section is only 512 KB on an allyesconfig build (which weighs in
at 500+ MB for the entire Image). Also, note that modules today carry
the replacement sequences in non-init sections as well, and any of
those that target init code will be emitted into init sections after
this change.

This fixes an early crash when booting an allyesconfig kernel on a
system where any of the alternatives sequences containing relative
branches are activated at boot (e.g., ARM64_HAS_PAN on TX2)

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave P Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630081921.13443-1-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/kernel: Fix range on invalidating dcache for boot page tables</title>
<updated>2020-06-22T07:30:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gavin Shan</name>
<email>gshan@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-27T23:57:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9d2d75ede59bc1edd8561f2ee9d4702a5ea0ae30 ]

Prior to commit 8eb7e28d4c642c31 ("arm64/mm: move runtime pgds to
rodata"), idmap_pgd_dir, tramp_pg_dir, reserved_ttbr0, swapper_pg_dir,
and init_pg_dir were contiguous at the end of the kernel image. The
maintenance at the end of __create_page_tables assumed these were
contiguous, and affected everything from the start of idmap_pg_dir
to the end of init_pg_dir.

That commit moved all but init_pg_dir into the .rodata section, with
other data placed between idmap_pg_dir and init_pg_dir, but did not
update the maintenance. Hence the maintenance is performed on much
more data than necessary (but as the bootloader previously made this
clean to the PoC there is no functional problem).

As we only alter idmap_pg_dir, and init_pg_dir, we only need to perform
maintenance for these. As the other dirs are in .rodata, the bootloader
will have initialised them as expected and cleaned them to the PoC. The
kernel will initialize them as necessary after enabling the MMU.

This patch reworks the maintenance to only cover the idmap_pg_dir and
init_pg_dir to avoid this unnecessary work.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan &lt;gshan@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200427235700.112220-1-gshan@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9d2d75ede59bc1edd8561f2ee9d4702a5ea0ae30 ]

Prior to commit 8eb7e28d4c642c31 ("arm64/mm: move runtime pgds to
rodata"), idmap_pgd_dir, tramp_pg_dir, reserved_ttbr0, swapper_pg_dir,
and init_pg_dir were contiguous at the end of the kernel image. The
maintenance at the end of __create_page_tables assumed these were
contiguous, and affected everything from the start of idmap_pg_dir
to the end of init_pg_dir.

That commit moved all but init_pg_dir into the .rodata section, with
other data placed between idmap_pg_dir and init_pg_dir, but did not
update the maintenance. Hence the maintenance is performed on much
more data than necessary (but as the bootloader previously made this
clean to the PoC there is no functional problem).

As we only alter idmap_pg_dir, and init_pg_dir, we only need to perform
maintenance for these. As the other dirs are in .rodata, the bootloader
will have initialised them as expected and cleaned them to the PoC. The
kernel will initialize them as necessary after enabling the MMU.

This patch reworks the maintenance to only cover the idmap_pg_dir and
init_pg_dir to avoid this unnecessary work.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan &lt;gshan@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200427235700.112220-1-gshan@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/efi: Move variable assignments after SECTIONS</title>
<updated>2019-08-14T16:18:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-13T23:04:50+00:00</published>
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It seems that LLVM's linker does not correctly handle variable assignments
involving section positions that are updated during the SECTIONS
parsing. Commit aa69fb62bea1 ("arm64/efi: Mark __efistub_stext_offset as
an absolute symbol explicitly") ran into this too, but found a different
workaround.

However, this was not enough, as other variables were also miscalculated
which manifested as boot failures under UEFI where __efistub__end was
not taking the correct _end value (they should be the same):

$ ld.lld -EL -maarch64elf --no-undefined -X -shared \
	-Bsymbolic -z notext -z norelro --no-apply-dynamic-relocs \
	-o vmlinux.lld -T poc.lds --whole-archive vmlinux.o &amp;&amp; \
  readelf -Ws vmlinux.lld | egrep '\b(__efistub_|)_end\b'
368272: ffff000002218000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  HIDDEN    38 __efistub__end
368322: ffff000012318000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   38 _end

$ aarch64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd -EL -maarch64elf --no-undefined -X -shared \
	-Bsymbolic -z notext -z norelro --no-apply-dynamic-relocs \
	-o vmlinux.bfd -T poc.lds --whole-archive vmlinux.o &amp;&amp; \
  readelf -Ws vmlinux.bfd | egrep '\b(__efistub_|)_end\b'
338124: ffff000012318000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS __efistub__end
383812: ffff000012318000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT 15325 _end

To work around this, all of the __efistub_-prefixed variable assignments
need to be moved after the linker script's SECTIONS entry. As it turns
out, this also solves the problem fixed in commit aa69fb62bea1, so those
changes are reverted here.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/634
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42990
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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It seems that LLVM's linker does not correctly handle variable assignments
involving section positions that are updated during the SECTIONS
parsing. Commit aa69fb62bea1 ("arm64/efi: Mark __efistub_stext_offset as
an absolute symbol explicitly") ran into this too, but found a different
workaround.

However, this was not enough, as other variables were also miscalculated
which manifested as boot failures under UEFI where __efistub__end was
not taking the correct _end value (they should be the same):

$ ld.lld -EL -maarch64elf --no-undefined -X -shared \
	-Bsymbolic -z notext -z norelro --no-apply-dynamic-relocs \
	-o vmlinux.lld -T poc.lds --whole-archive vmlinux.o &amp;&amp; \
  readelf -Ws vmlinux.lld | egrep '\b(__efistub_|)_end\b'
368272: ffff000002218000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  HIDDEN    38 __efistub__end
368322: ffff000012318000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   38 _end

$ aarch64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd -EL -maarch64elf --no-undefined -X -shared \
	-Bsymbolic -z notext -z norelro --no-apply-dynamic-relocs \
	-o vmlinux.bfd -T poc.lds --whole-archive vmlinux.o &amp;&amp; \
  readelf -Ws vmlinux.bfd | egrep '\b(__efistub_|)_end\b'
338124: ffff000012318000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS __efistub__end
383812: ffff000012318000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT 15325 _end

To work around this, all of the __efistub_-prefixed variable assignments
need to be moved after the linker script's SECTIONS entry. As it turns
out, this also solves the problem fixed in commit aa69fb62bea1, so those
changes are reverted here.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/634
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42990
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Add support for relocating the kernel with RELR relocations</title>
<updated>2019-08-05T11:35:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
<email>pcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-01T01:18:42+00:00</published>
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RELR is a relocation packing format for relative relocations.
The format is described in a generic-abi proposal:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg/discussion

The LLD linker can be instructed to pack relocations in the RELR
format by passing the flag --pack-dyn-relocs=relr.

This patch adds a new config option, CONFIG_RELR. Enabling this option
instructs the linker to pack vmlinux's relative relocations in the RELR
format, and causes the kernel to apply the relocations at startup along
with the RELA relocations. RELA relocations still need to be applied
because the linker will emit RELA relative relocations if they are
unrepresentable in the RELR format (i.e. address not a multiple of 2).

Enabling CONFIG_RELR reduces the size of a defconfig kernel image
with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE by 3.5MB/16% uncompressed, or 550KB/5%
compressed (lz4).

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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RELR is a relocation packing format for relative relocations.
The format is described in a generic-abi proposal:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg/discussion

The LLD linker can be instructed to pack relocations in the RELR
format by passing the flag --pack-dyn-relocs=relr.

This patch adds a new config option, CONFIG_RELR. Enabling this option
instructs the linker to pack vmlinux's relative relocations in the RELR
format, and causes the kernel to apply the relocations at startup along
with the RELA relocations. RELA relocations still need to be applied
because the linker will emit RELA relative relocations if they are
unrepresentable in the RELR format (i.e. address not a multiple of 2).

Enabling CONFIG_RELR reduces the size of a defconfig kernel image
with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE by 3.5MB/16% uncompressed, or 550KB/5%
compressed (lz4).

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: relocatable: fix inconsistencies in linker script and options</title>
<updated>2018-12-04T12:48:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-03T19:58:05+00:00</published>
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readelf complains about the section layout of vmlinux when building
with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y (for KASLR):

  readelf: Warning: [21]: Link field (0) should index a symtab section.
  readelf: Warning: [21]: Info field (0) should index a relocatable section.

Also, it seems that our use of '-pie -shared' is contradictory, and
thus ambiguous. In general, the way KASLR is wired up at the moment
is highly tailored to how ld.bfd happens to implement (and conflate)
PIE executables and shared libraries, so given the current effort to
support other toolchains, let's fix some of these issues as well.

- Drop the -pie linker argument and just leave -shared. In ld.bfd,
  the differences between them are unclear (except for the ELF type
  of the produced image [0]) but lld chokes on seeing both at the
  same time.

- Rename the .rela output section to .rela.dyn, as is customary for
  shared libraries and PIE executables, so that it is not misidentified
  by readelf as a static relocation section (producing the warnings
  above).

- Pass the -z notext and -z norelro options to explicitly instruct the
  linker to permit text relocations, and to omit the RELRO program
  header (which requires a certain section layout that we don't adhere
  to in the kernel). These are the defaults for current versions of
  ld.bfd.

- Discard .eh_frame and .gnu.hash sections to avoid them from being
  emitted between .head.text and .text, screwing up the section layout.

These changes only affect the ELF image, and produce the same binary
image.

[0] b9dce7f1ba01 ("arm64: kernel: force ET_DYN ELF type for ...")

Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Smith &lt;peter.smith@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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readelf complains about the section layout of vmlinux when building
with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y (for KASLR):

  readelf: Warning: [21]: Link field (0) should index a symtab section.
  readelf: Warning: [21]: Info field (0) should index a relocatable section.

Also, it seems that our use of '-pie -shared' is contradictory, and
thus ambiguous. In general, the way KASLR is wired up at the moment
is highly tailored to how ld.bfd happens to implement (and conflate)
PIE executables and shared libraries, so given the current effort to
support other toolchains, let's fix some of these issues as well.

- Drop the -pie linker argument and just leave -shared. In ld.bfd,
  the differences between them are unclear (except for the ELF type
  of the produced image [0]) but lld chokes on seeing both at the
  same time.

- Rename the .rela output section to .rela.dyn, as is customary for
  shared libraries and PIE executables, so that it is not misidentified
  by readelf as a static relocation section (producing the warnings
  above).

- Pass the -z notext and -z norelro options to explicitly instruct the
  linker to permit text relocations, and to omit the RELRO program
  header (which requires a certain section layout that we don't adhere
  to in the kernel). These are the defaults for current versions of
  ld.bfd.

- Discard .eh_frame and .gnu.hash sections to avoid them from being
  emitted between .head.text and .text, screwing up the section layout.

These changes only affect the ELF image, and produce the same binary
image.

[0] b9dce7f1ba01 ("arm64: kernel: force ET_DYN ELF type for ...")

Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Smith &lt;peter.smith@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2018-10-24T10:49:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-24T10:49:35+00:00</published>
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "In this patchset, there are a couple of minor updates, as well as some
  reworking of the LSM initialization code from Kees Cook (these prepare
  the way for ordered stackable LSMs, but are a valuable cleanup on
  their own)"

* 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  LSM: Don't ignore initialization failures
  LSM: Provide init debugging infrastructure
  LSM: Record LSM name in struct lsm_info
  LSM: Convert security_initcall() into DEFINE_LSM()
  vmlinux.lds.h: Move LSM_TABLE into INIT_DATA
  LSM: Convert from initcall to struct lsm_info
  LSM: Remove initcall tracing
  LSM: Rename .security_initcall section to .lsm_info
  vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid copy/paste of security_init section
  LSM: Correctly announce start of LSM initialization
  security: fix LSM description location
  keys: Fix the use of the C++ keyword "private" in uapi/linux/keyctl.h
  seccomp: remove unnecessary unlikely()
  security: tomoyo: Fix obsolete function
  security/capabilities: remove check for -EINVAL
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "In this patchset, there are a couple of minor updates, as well as some
  reworking of the LSM initialization code from Kees Cook (these prepare
  the way for ordered stackable LSMs, but are a valuable cleanup on
  their own)"

* 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  LSM: Don't ignore initialization failures
  LSM: Provide init debugging infrastructure
  LSM: Record LSM name in struct lsm_info
  LSM: Convert security_initcall() into DEFINE_LSM()
  vmlinux.lds.h: Move LSM_TABLE into INIT_DATA
  LSM: Convert from initcall to struct lsm_info
  LSM: Remove initcall tracing
  LSM: Rename .security_initcall section to .lsm_info
  vmlinux.lds.h: Avoid copy/paste of security_init section
  LSM: Correctly announce start of LSM initialization
  security: fix LSM description location
  keys: Fix the use of the C++ keyword "private" in uapi/linux/keyctl.h
  seccomp: remove unnecessary unlikely()
  security: tomoyo: Fix obsolete function
  security/capabilities: remove check for -EINVAL
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