On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:32:21AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
[...]
> > AFAICT, erratum 836870 results in livelock rather than memory
> > corruption, so I think we can ignore that.
> >
> > I'm a little worried by erratum 843419. The VMAP_STACK patches changed
> > {adr,ldr}_this_cpu (and some users thereof), and it's possible we're
> > managing to tickle that issue.
> >
> > If you still have an affected kernel, could you dump the output of:
> >
> > $ aarch64-linux-gnu-objdump -d vmlinux | grep -A 3
> > 'ff[8c]:\s\+[a-f0-9]\+\s\+adrp'
> >
> > ... that would show us if there are any affected sequences.
> >
> > From a quick scan of my own vmlinux build from commit e3067861ba66, I
> > didn't see any, but it's possible this depends on the config used.
> >
>
> The linker should take care of that: it scans the entire executable,
> and inserts a veneer if an adrp happens to end up at a vulnerable
> offset in the page.
Is this dependent on any GCC version?
I am using GCC 6.2.1, so I get many affected sequences with Mark's command:
leoy@leoy-linaro:~/Work/reference/opensource/linux$ aarch64-linux-gnu-objdump
-d vmlinux | grep -A 3 'ff[8c]:\s\+[a-f0-9]\+\s\+adrp'
ffff0000080a1ffc: 90007340 adrp x0, ffff000008f09000
<page_wait_table+0x1280>
ffff0000080a2000: a900fedf stp xzr, xzr, [x22,#8]
ffff0000080a2004: 91374000 add x0, x0, #0xdd0
ffff0000080a2008: f9000ec0 str x0, [x22,#24]
--
ffff0000080b6ff8: b0007ce0 adrp x0, ffff000009053000
<chunk_hash_heads+0x680>
ffff0000080b6ffc: 52901801 mov w1, #0x80c0
// #32960
ffff0000080b7000: 72a02801 movk w1, #0x140, lsl #16
ffff0000080b7004: 9102e273 add x19, x19, #0xb8
--
ffff0000080f1ff8: d00070a1 adrp x1, ffff000008f07000
<bit_wait_table+0xd80>
ffff0000080f1ffc: f9406402 ldr x2, [x0,#200]
ffff0000080f2000: f9405c03 ldr x3, [x0,#184]
ffff0000080f2004: 14002915 b ffff0000080fc458
<e843419@00ce_00000e94_3c4>
--
ffff0000080feff8: 90000002 adrp x2, ffff0000080fe000
<prio_changed_rt+0x88>
ffff0000080feffc: 9136e042 add x2, x2, #0xdb8
ffff0000080ff000: f9000462 str x2, [x3,#8]
ffff0000080ff004: f9448e62 ldr x2, [x19,#2328]
--
ffff00000810affc: f0006fe1 adrp x1, ffff000008f09000
<page_wait_table+0x1280>
ffff00000810b000: f94017a2 ldr x2, [x29,#40]
ffff00000810b004: aa1303e0 mov x0, x19
ffff00000810b008: 1400013d b ffff00000810b4fc
<e843419@00e7_000010c5_338>
--
ffff00000811dff8: d0005c80 adrp x0, ffff000008caf000
<kallsyms_token_index+0xaf00>
ffff00000811dffc: 912be021 add x1, x1, #0xaf8
ffff00000811e000: 912ae000 add x0, x0, #0xab8
ffff00000811e004: 97ffe6ab bl ffff000008117ab0 <printk>
--
ffff000008137ff8: f0004443 adrp x3, ffff0000089c2000
<clock_monotonic+0x50>
ffff000008137ffc: 910ac042 add x2, x2, #0x2b0
ffff000008138000: 9113c063 add x3, x3, #0x4f0
ffff000008138004: 71000c9f cmp w4, #0x3
--
ffff00000815eff8: b0005aa1 adrp x1, ffff000008cb3000
<kallsyms_token_index+0xef00>
ffff00000815effc: 91362021 add x1, x1, #0xd88
ffff00000815f000: 97ffffc8 bl ffff00000815ef20
<audit_log_format>
ffff00000815f004: b94023a1 ldr w1, [x29,#32]
