Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 35/38] ARM: 9201/1: spectre-bhb: rely on linker to emit cross-section literal loads

[Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>]

AUTONAK

On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 15:50, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
>
> [ Upstream commit ad12c2f1587c6ec9b52ff226f438955bfae6ad89 ]
>
> The assembler does not permit 'LDR PC, <sym>' when the symbol lives in a
> different section, which is why we have been relying on rather fragile
> open-coded arithmetic to load the address of the vector_swi routine into
> the program counter using a single LDR instruction in the SWI slot in
> the vector table. The literal was moved to a different section to in
> commit 19accfd373847 ("ARM: move vector stubs") to ensure that the
> vector stubs page does not need to be mapped readable for user space,
> which is the case for the vector page itself, as it carries the kuser
> helpers as well.
>
> So the cross-section literal load is open-coded, and this relies on the
> address of vector_swi to be at the very start of the vector stubs page,
> and we won't notice if we got it wrong until booting the kernel and see
> it break. Fortunately, it was guaranteed to break, so this was fragile
> but not problematic.
>
> Now that we have added two other variants of the vector table, we have 3
> occurrences of the same trick, and so the size of our ISA/compiler/CPU
> validation space has tripled, in a way that may cause regressions to only
> be observed once booting the image in question on a CPU that exercises a
> particular vector table.
>
> So let's switch to true cross section references, and let the linker fix
> them up like it fixes up all the other cross section references in the
> vector page.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> index d779cd1a3b0c..f8296e7a365c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> @@ -1098,10 +1098,15 @@ ENDPROC(vector_bhb_bpiall_\name)
>         .endm
>
>         .section .stubs, "ax", %progbits
> -       @ This must be the first word
> +       @ These need to remain at the start of the section so that
> +       @ they are in range of the 'SWI' entries in the vector tables
> +       @ located 4k down.
> +.L__vector_swi:
>         .word   vector_swi
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_HISTORY
> +.L__vector_bhb_loop8_swi:
>         .word   vector_bhb_loop8_swi
> +.L__vector_bhb_bpiall_swi:
>         .word   vector_bhb_bpiall_swi
>  #endif
>
> @@ -1244,10 +1249,11 @@ vector_addrexcptn:
>         .globl  vector_fiq
>
>         .section .vectors, "ax", %progbits
> -.L__vectors_start:
>         W(b)    vector_rst
>         W(b)    vector_und
> -       W(ldr)  pc, .L__vectors_start + 0x1000
> +ARM(   .reloc  ., R_ARM_LDR_PC_G0, .L__vector_swi              )
> +THUMB( .reloc  ., R_ARM_THM_PC12, .L__vector_swi               )
> +       W(ldr)  pc, .
>         W(b)    vector_pabt
>         W(b)    vector_dabt
>         W(b)    vector_addrexcptn
> @@ -1256,10 +1262,11 @@ vector_addrexcptn:
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_HISTORY
>         .section .vectors.bhb.loop8, "ax", %progbits
> -.L__vectors_bhb_loop8_start:
>         W(b)    vector_rst
>         W(b)    vector_bhb_loop8_und
> -       W(ldr)  pc, .L__vectors_bhb_loop8_start + 0x1004
> +ARM(   .reloc  ., R_ARM_LDR_PC_G0, .L__vector_bhb_loop8_swi    )
> +THUMB( .reloc  ., R_ARM_THM_PC12, .L__vector_bhb_loop8_swi     )
> +       W(ldr)  pc, .
>         W(b)    vector_bhb_loop8_pabt
>         W(b)    vector_bhb_loop8_dabt
>         W(b)    vector_addrexcptn
> @@ -1267,10 +1274,11 @@ vector_addrexcptn:
>         W(b)    vector_bhb_loop8_fiq
>
>         .section .vectors.bhb.bpiall, "ax", %progbits
> -.L__vectors_bhb_bpiall_start:
>         W(b)    vector_rst
>         W(b)    vector_bhb_bpiall_und
> -       W(ldr)  pc, .L__vectors_bhb_bpiall_start + 0x1008
> +ARM(   .reloc  ., R_ARM_LDR_PC_G0, .L__vector_bhb_bpiall_swi   )
> +THUMB( .reloc  ., R_ARM_THM_PC12, .L__vector_bhb_bpiall_swi    )
> +       W(ldr)  pc, .
>         W(b)    vector_bhb_bpiall_pabt
>         W(b)    vector_bhb_bpiall_dabt
>         W(b)    vector_addrexcptn
> --
> 2.35.1
>