linux/arch/x86/xen
Borislav Petkov a9a3ed1eff x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try
... 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
2020-05-15 11:48:01 +02:00
..
apic.c Merge branch 'WIP.x86/asm' into x86/urgent, because the topic is ready 2018-04-12 09:42:34 +02:00
debugfs.c x86: xen: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 2019-06-03 15:49:07 +02:00
debugfs.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
efi.c efi/libstub: Use stricter typing for firmware function pointers 2019-12-25 10:49:18 +01:00
enlighten_hvm.c x86/xen: Add "nopv" support for HVM guest 2019-07-17 08:09:59 +02:00
enlighten_pv.c x86/ioperm: Add new paravirt function update_io_bitmap() 2020-02-29 12:43:09 +01:00
enlighten_pvh.c xen/pvh: correctly setup the PV EFI interface for dom0 2019-04-25 10:36:25 -04:00
enlighten.c x86/xen: Return from panic notifier 2019-10-07 17:53:30 -04:00
grant-table.c x86/xen: Add SPDX identifier in arch/x86/xen files 2018-09-03 16:50:33 +02:00
irq.c x86/paravirt: Use a single ops structure 2018-09-03 16:50:35 +02:00
Kconfig x86/Kconfig: Fix Kconfig indentation 2019-12-10 18:43:21 +01:00
Makefile xen/pvh: Create a new file for Xen specific PVH code 2018-12-13 13:41:49 -05:00
mmu_hvm.c x86/paravirt: Use a single ops structure 2018-09-03 16:50:35 +02:00
mmu_pv.c x86/mm/pat: Rename <asm/pat.h> => <asm/memtype.h> 2019-12-10 10:12:55 +01:00
mmu.c x86/xen: Add SPDX identifier in arch/x86/xen files 2018-09-03 16:50:33 +02:00
mmu.h mm: update ptep_modify_prot_start/commit to take vm_area_struct as arg 2019-03-05 21:07:18 -08:00
multicalls.c treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively 2019-04-09 14:19:06 +02:00
multicalls.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
p2m.c x86: xen: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 2019-06-03 15:49:07 +02:00
pci-swiotlb-xen.c x86/xen: Add SPDX identifier in arch/x86/xen files 2018-09-03 16:50:33 +02:00
platform-pci-unplug.c xen/pvh: don't try to unplug emulated devices 2018-10-26 09:16:57 +02:00
pmu.c Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-23 16:16:40 +01:00
pmu.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
setup.c x86/xen: make xen_pvmmu_arch_setup() static 2020-04-08 10:46:25 +02:00
smp_hvm.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
smp_pv.c x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try 2020-05-15 11:48:01 +02:00
smp.c x86/smp: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu() 2020-03-25 12:59:35 +01:00
smp.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
spinlock.c Revert "x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized" 2019-07-17 08:09:57 +02:00
suspend_hvm.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
suspend_pv.c x86/xen/time: Initialize pv xen time in init_hypervisor_platform() 2018-07-20 00:02:39 +02:00
suspend.c x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend 2018-02-28 16:03:19 +01:00
time.c x86/vdso: Use generic VDSO clock mode storage 2020-02-17 14:40:23 +01:00
trace.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
vdso.h x86/xen: Add SPDX identifier in arch/x86/xen files 2018-09-03 16:50:33 +02:00
vga.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
xen-asm_32.S Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-26 10:42:40 -08:00
xen-asm_64.S x86/asm: Change all ENTRY+ENDPROC to SYM_FUNC_* 2019-10-18 11:58:33 +02:00
xen-asm.S x86/asm: Change all ENTRY+ENDPROC to SYM_FUNC_* 2019-10-18 11:58:33 +02:00
xen-head.S x86/xen: fix booting 32-bit pv guest 2020-04-09 16:53:48 +02:00
xen-ops.h x86/paravirt: Make read_cr2() CALLEE_SAVE 2019-07-17 23:17:37 +02:00