[PATCH] powerpc/security: Use a mutex for interrupt exit code patching

Russell Currey ruscur at russell.cc
Wed Oct 27 18:24:10 AEDT 2021


The mitigation-patching.sh script in the powerpc selftests toggles
all mitigations on and off simultaneously, revealing that rfi_flush
and stf_barrier cannot safely operate at the same time due to races
in updating the static key.

On some systems, the static key code throws a warning and the kernel
remains functional.  On others, the kernel will hang or crash.

Fix this by slapping on a mutex.

Fixes: 13799748b957 ("powerpc/64: use interrupt restart table to speed up return from interrupt")
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
index cda17bee5afe..9956277fbd88 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ static void do_stf_exit_barrier_fixups(enum stf_barrier_type types)
 
 static bool stf_exit_reentrant = false;
 static bool rfi_exit_reentrant = false;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(exit_flush_lock);
 
 static int __do_stf_barrier_fixups(void *data)
 {
@@ -253,6 +254,9 @@ void do_stf_barrier_fixups(enum stf_barrier_type types)
 	 * low level interrupt exit code before patching. After the patching,
 	 * if allowed, then flip the branch to allow fast exits.
 	 */
+
+	// Prevent static key update races with do_rfi_flush_fixups()
+	mutex_lock(&exit_flush_lock);
 	static_branch_enable(&interrupt_exit_not_reentrant);
 
 	stop_machine(__do_stf_barrier_fixups, &types, NULL);
@@ -264,6 +268,7 @@ void do_stf_barrier_fixups(enum stf_barrier_type types)
 
 	if (stf_exit_reentrant && rfi_exit_reentrant)
 		static_branch_disable(&interrupt_exit_not_reentrant);
+	mutex_unlock(&exit_flush_lock);
 }
 
 void do_uaccess_flush_fixups(enum l1d_flush_type types)
@@ -486,6 +491,9 @@ void do_rfi_flush_fixups(enum l1d_flush_type types)
 	 * without stop_machine, so this could be achieved with a broadcast
 	 * IPI instead, but this matches the stf sequence.
 	 */
+
+	// Prevent static key update races with do_stf_barrier_fixups()
+	mutex_lock(&exit_flush_lock);
 	static_branch_enable(&interrupt_exit_not_reentrant);
 
 	stop_machine(__do_rfi_flush_fixups, &types, NULL);
@@ -497,6 +505,7 @@ void do_rfi_flush_fixups(enum l1d_flush_type types)
 
 	if (stf_exit_reentrant && rfi_exit_reentrant)
 		static_branch_disable(&interrupt_exit_not_reentrant);
+	mutex_unlock(&exit_flush_lock);
 }
 
 void do_barrier_nospec_fixups_range(bool enable, void *fixup_start, void *fixup_end)
-- 
2.33.1



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