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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>2024-02-19 21:57:18 -0800
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2024-02-20 13:26:10 +0100
commitb388e57d4628eb22782bdad4cd5b83ca87a1b7c9 (patch)
tree78b939f11fb63fc7afbe5174be160df8c515d95f /arch/x86/Makefile
parent4589f199eb68afd462bd792f730c7936fe3dafb5 (diff)
x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
For CONFIG_RETHUNK kernels, objtool annotates all the function return sites so they can be patched during boot. By design, after apply_returns() is called, all tail-calls to the compiler-generated default return thunk (__x86_return_thunk) should be patched out and replaced with whatever's needed for any mitigations (or lack thereof). The commit 4461438a8405 ("x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime") adds a runtime check and a WARN_ONCE() if the default return thunk ever gets executed after alternatives have been applied. This warning is a sanity check to make sure objtool and apply_returns() are doing their job. As Nathan reported, that check found something: Unpatched return thunk in use. This should not happen! WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c:2856 __warn_thunk+0x27/0x40 RIP: 0010:__warn_thunk+0x27/0x40 Call Trace: <TASK> ? show_regs ? __warn ? __warn_thunk ? report_bug ? console_unlock ? handle_bug ? exc_invalid_op ? asm_exc_invalid_op ? ia32_binfmt_init ? __warn_thunk warn_thunk_thunk do_one_initcall kernel_init_freeable ? __pfx_kernel_init kernel_init ret_from_fork ? __pfx_kernel_init ret_from_fork_asm </TASK> Boris debugged to find that the unpatched return site was in init_vdso_image_64(), and its translation unit wasn't being analyzed by objtool, so it never got annotated. So it got ignored by apply_returns(). This is only a minor issue, as this function is only called during boot. Still, objtool needs full visibility to the kernel. Fix it by enabling objtool on vdso-image-{32,64}.o. Note this problem can only be seen with !CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT, as that requires objtool to run individually on all translation units rather on vmlinux.o. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240215032049.GA3944823@dev-arch.thelio-3990X
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