From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>,
Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 19/19] arm64: smp: Harden parallel CPU bringup against broken PSCI firmware
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 17:40:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907164024.17164-20-will@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260907164024.17164-1-will@kernel.org>
Since firmware has occasionally been known to get things wrong, harden
our parallel CPU bringup code against a PSCI implementation that passes
the CPU_ON argument to an incorrect CPU.
The primary CPU writes the MPIDR of the incoming CPU to the end of its
task stack and this is then checked against the MPIDR_EL1 register
during early kernel entry. A mismatch is reported via the existing
failure reporting mechanism and the CPU is not brought online.
Suggested-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h | 4 +++-
arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 11 ++++++++--
4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
index 3decb42164aa..1ecfa4fa4f82 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
/* Offsets for late (i.e. MMU-enabled) CPU boot reasons */
/* Fatal system error detected by secondary CPU, crash the system */
#define CPU_PANIC_KERNEL (0)
-#define CPU_STATUS_FLAGS_MAX (1)
+/* The PSCI v0.2+ implementation passed the wrong argument */
+#define CPU_BROKEN_PSCI_ARG (1)
+#define CPU_STATUS_FLAGS_MAX (2)
#ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 9c853ed3ceab..0cbd10af13ac 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ int main(void)
BLANK();
#endif
DEFINE(CPU_BOOT_TASK, offsetof(struct secondary_data, task));
+ DEFINE(CPU_BOOT_STATUS_FLAGS, offsetof(struct secondary_data, status.flags));
BLANK();
DEFINE(FTR_OVR_VAL_OFFSET, offsetof(struct arm64_ftr_override, val));
DEFINE(FTR_OVR_MASK_OFFSET, offsetof(struct arm64_ftr_override, mask));
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index bec4bc1b12db..56deeb9673d6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -192,11 +192,21 @@ SYM_CODE_END(preserve_boot_args)
* its location in the task stack. We reserve the entire pt_regs space
* for consistency with user tasks and kthreads.
*/
- .macro init_cpu_task tsk, tmp1, tmp2
+ .macro init_cpu_task tsk, tmp1, tmp2, check_mpidr=
msr sp_el0, \tsk
ldr \tmp1, [\tsk, #TSK_STACK]
- add sp, \tmp1, #THREAD_SIZE
+ mov sp, \tmp1
+ .ifnb \check_mpidr
+ mov_q \tmp1, MPIDR_HWID_BITMASK
+ mrs \tmp2, mpidr_el1
+ and \tmp2, \tmp2, \tmp1
+ ldr \tmp1, [sp]
+ sub \tmp1, \tmp1, \tmp2
+ cbnz \tmp1, __cpu_secondary_broken_psci_arg
+ .endif
+
+ add sp, sp, #THREAD_SIZE
sub sp, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE
stp xzr, xzr, [sp, #S_STACKFRAME]
@@ -401,11 +411,12 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__secondary_switched)
cbnz x2, 1f
adr_l x0, secondary_data
ldr x2, [x0, #CPU_BOOT_TASK]
- cbz x2, __secondary_too_slow
-
-1:
init_cpu_task x2, x1, x3
-
+ cbnz x2, 2f
+ b __secondary_too_slow
+1:
+ init_cpu_task x2, x1, x3, check_mpidr=1
+2:
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH
ptrauth_keys_init_cpu x2, x3, x4, x5
#endif
@@ -451,6 +462,22 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(set_cpu_boot_mode_flag)
dc ivac, \tmp1 // Invalidate potentially stale cache line
.endm
+ .macro update_cpu_boot_status status, tmp1, tmp2
+ adr_l \tmp1, secondary_data
+ add \tmp1, \tmp1, #CPU_BOOT_STATUS_FLAGS + \status
+ mov \tmp2, #1
+ strb w\tmp2, [\tmp1]
+ .endm
+
+SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__cpu_secondary_broken_psci_arg)
+ update_cpu_boot_status CPU_BROKEN_PSCI_ARG, x0, x1
+1:
+ wfe
+ wfi
+ b 1b
+SYM_FUNC_END(__cpu_secondary_broken_psci_arg)
+
+
/*
* Enable the MMU.
*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index d5da44949671..95af5384885b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -119,10 +119,12 @@ int arch_cpuhp_kick_ap_alive(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
* We need to tell the secondary core where to find its stack and the
* page tables.
*/
- if (smp_parallel_bringup)
+ if (smp_parallel_bringup) {
+ *((u64 *)idle->stack) = cpu_logical_map(cpu);
arg = idle;
- else
+ } else {
secondary_data.task = idle;
+ }
/* Now bring the CPU into our world */
if (ops->cpu_boot)
@@ -158,6 +160,11 @@ void arch_cpuhp_cleanup_kick_cpu(unsigned int cpu, bool is_alive)
}
status = READ_ONCE(secondary_data.status);
+ if (status.flags[CPU_BROKEN_PSCI_ARG]) {
+ pr_crit_once("CPU%u detected broken PSCI v0.2+ CPU_ON argument passing\n",
+ cpu);
+ }
+
if (status.flags[CPU_PANIC_KERNEL])
panic("CPU%u detected unsupported configuration\n", cpu);
--
2.55.0.979.g7e5102b832-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-07 16:40 [PATCH 00/19] arm64: Implement parallel CPU onlining with PSCI v0.2+ Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 01/19] cpu/hotplug: Clean up cmpxchg() logic in cpuhp_can_boot_ap() Will Deacon
2026-09-08 2:55 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 02/19] cpu/hotplug: Avoid trying to bring up CPUs that are already online Will Deacon
2026-09-08 3:13 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 03/19] cpu/hotplug: Avoid busy-polling on archs where cpu_relax() is a no-op Will Deacon
2026-09-08 4:00 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-11 7:16 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-11 12:57 ` Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 04/19] cpu/hotplug: Propagate bring-up status to arch_cpuhp_cleanup_kick_cpu() Will Deacon
2026-09-08 4:05 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 05/19] arm64: smp: Tidy up smp_prepare_cpus() Will Deacon
2026-09-08 7:35 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 06/19] arm64: smp: Tidy up cpuinfo init and cpufeature updates Will Deacon
2026-09-08 7:53 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 07/19] arm64: smp: Defer update of secondary CPU capabilities Will Deacon
2026-09-08 8:20 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 08/19] arm64: smp: Don't bother printing the I-cache policy for each CPU Will Deacon
2026-09-08 8:33 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 09/19] arm64: smp: Defer RCU registration during secondary CPU bringup Will Deacon
2026-09-08 8:55 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-08 10:19 ` Will Deacon
2026-09-08 11:25 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-09 12:36 ` Will Deacon
2026-09-10 2:47 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-11 12:52 ` Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 10/19] arm64: smp: Use generic HOTPLUG_CORE_SYNC_FULL machinery for CPU onlining Will Deacon
2026-09-08 9:01 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 11/19] arm64: smp: Use generic HOTPLUG_SPLIT_STARTUP " Will Deacon
2026-09-08 9:10 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-08 11:35 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-11 12:55 ` Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 12/19] arm64: cpu_ops: Make 'cpu_operations' pointer global instead of per-cpu Will Deacon
2026-09-08 11:32 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-11 12:55 ` Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 13/19] arm64: cpu_ops: Introduce get_secondary_cpu_ops() Will Deacon
2026-09-08 11:56 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 14/19] firmware/psci: Cache PSCI v0.2+ version number to avoid redundant SMCs Will Deacon
2026-09-08 11:57 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 15/19] firmware/psci: Extend ->cpu_on() callback to take an additional argument Will Deacon
2026-09-08 12:05 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 16/19] arm64: cpu_ops: Expose optional argument to target cpu in ->cpu_boot() Will Deacon
2026-09-08 12:12 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 17/19] arm64: smp: Pass secondary CPU boot parameters via firmware if possible Will Deacon
2026-09-08 12:16 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-07 16:40 ` [PATCH 18/19] arm64: smp: Use generic HOTPLUG_PARALLEL machinery for CPU onlining Will Deacon
2026-09-08 13:05 ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-11 12:56 ` Will Deacon
2026-09-07 16:40 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2026-09-08 13:36 ` [PATCH 19/19] arm64: smp: Harden parallel CPU bringup against broken PSCI firmware Will Deacon
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