[PATCH 4.14 082/143] MIPS: Workaround GCC __builtin_unreachable reordering bug

[PATCH 4.14 082/143] MIPS: Workaround GCC __builtin_unreachable reordering bug

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit 906d441febc0de974b2a6ef848a8f058f3bfada3 ]

Some versions of GCC for the MIPS architecture suffer from a bug which
can lead to instructions from beyond an unreachable statement being
incorrectly reordered into earlier branch delay slots if the unreachable
statement is the only content of a case in a switch statement. This can
lead to seemingly random behaviour, such as invalid memory accesses from
incorrectly reordered loads or stores, and link failures on microMIPS
builds.

See this potential GCC fix for details:

    https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-09/msg00360.html

Runtime problems resulting from this bug were initially observed using a
maltasmvp_defconfig v4.4 kernel built using GCC 4.9.2 (from a Codescape
SDK 2015.06-05 toolchain), with the result being an address exception
taken after log messages about the L1 caches (during probe of the L2
cache):

    Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x000000009fffffff]
    VPE topology {2,2} total 4
    Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
    Primary data cache 64kB, 4-way, PIPT, no aliases, linesize 32 bytes
    <AdEL exception here>

This is early enough that the kernel exception vectors are not in use,
so any further output depends upon the bootloader. This is reproducible
in QEMU where no further output occurs - ie. the system hangs here.
Given the nature of the bug it may potentially be hit with differing
symptoms. The bug is known to affect GCC versions as recent as 7.3, and
it is unclear whether GCC 8 fixed it or just happens not to encounter
the bug in the testcase found at the link above due to differing
optimizations.

This bug can be worked around by placing a volatile asm statement, which
GCC is prevented from reordering past, prior to the
__builtin_unreachable call.

That was actually done already for other reasons by commit 173a3efd3edb
("bug.h: work around GCC PR82365 in BUG()"), but creates problems for
microMIPS builds due to the lack of a .insn directive. The microMIPS ISA
allows for interlinking with regular MIPS32 code by repurposing bit 0 of
the program counter as an ISA mode bit. To switch modes one changes the
value of this bit in the PC. However typical branch instructions encode
their offsets as multiples of 2-byte instruction halfwords, which means
they cannot change ISA mode - this must be done using either an indirect
branch (a jump-register in MIPS terminology) or a dedicated jalx
instruction. In order to ensure that regular branches don't attempt to
target code in a different ISA which they can't actually switch to, the
linker will check that branch targets are code in the same ISA as the
branch.

Unfortunately our empty asm volatile statements don't qualify as code,
and the link for microMIPS builds fails with errors such as:

    arch/mips/mm/dma-default.s:3265: Error: branch to a symbol in another ISA mode
    arch/mips/mm/dma-default.s:5027: Error: branch to a symbol in another ISA mode

Resolve this by adding a .insn directive within the asm statement which
declares that what comes next is code. This may or may not be true,
since we don't really know what comes next, but as this code is in an
unreachable path anyway that doesn't matter since we won't execute it.

We do this in asm/compiler.h & select CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H in
order to have this included by linux/compiler_types.h after
linux/compiler-gcc.h. This will result in asm/compiler.h being included
in all C compilations via the -include linux/compiler_types.h argument
in c_flags, which should be harmless.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Fixes: 173a3efd3edb ("bug.h: work around GCC PR82365 in BUG()")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20270/
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/mips/Kconfig                |  1 +
 arch/mips/include/asm/compiler.h | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index c82457b0e733..23e3d3e0ee5b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ config MIPS
 	select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
 	select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
 	select HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ
+	select HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
 	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/compiler.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/compiler.h
index e081a265f422..cc2eb1b06050 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/compiler.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/compiler.h
@@ -8,6 +8,41 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_COMPILER_H
 #define _ASM_COMPILER_H
 
+/*
+ * With GCC 4.5 onwards we can use __builtin_unreachable to indicate to the
+ * compiler that a particular code path will never be hit. This allows it to be
+ * optimised out of the generated binary.
+ *
+ * Unfortunately at least GCC 4.6.3 through 7.3.0 inclusive suffer from a bug
+ * that can lead to instructions from beyond an unreachable statement being
+ * incorrectly reordered into earlier delay slots if the unreachable statement
+ * is the only content of a case in a switch statement. This can lead to
+ * seemingly random behaviour, such as invalid memory accesses from incorrectly
+ * reordered loads or stores. See this potential GCC fix for details:
+ *
+ *   https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-09/msg00360.html
+ *
+ * It is unclear whether GCC 8 onwards suffer from the same issue - nothing
+ * relevant is mentioned in GCC 8 release notes and nothing obviously relevant
+ * stands out in GCC commit logs, but these newer GCC versions generate very
+ * different code for the testcase which doesn't exhibit the bug.
+ *
+ * GCC also handles stack allocation suboptimally when calling noreturn
+ * functions or calling __builtin_unreachable():
+ *
+ *   https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82365
+ *
+ * We work around both of these issues by placing a volatile asm statement,
+ * which GCC is prevented from reordering past, prior to __builtin_unreachable
+ * calls.
+ *
+ * The .insn statement is required to ensure that any branches to the
+ * statement, which sadly must be kept due to the asm statement, are known to
+ * be branches to code and satisfy linker requirements for microMIPS kernels.
+ */
+#undef barrier_before_unreachable
+#define barrier_before_unreachable() asm volatile(".insn")
+
 #if __GNUC__ > 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4)
 #define GCC_IMM_ASM() "n"
 #define GCC_REG_ACCUM "$0"
-- 
2.17.1

[PATCH 4.14 096/143] compiler.h: Allow arch-specific asm/compiler.h

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit 04f264d3a8b0eb25d378127bd78c3c9a0261c828 ]

We have a need to override the definition of
barrier_before_unreachable() for MIPS, which means we either need to add
architecture-specific code into linux/compiler-gcc.h or we need to allow
the architecture to provide a header that can define the macro before
the generic definition. The latter seems like the better approach.

A straightforward approach to the per-arch header is to make use of
asm-generic to provide a default empty header & adjust architectures
which don't need anything specific to make use of that by adding the
header to generic-y. Unfortunately this doesn't work so well due to
commit 28128c61e08e ("kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed
struct attributes") which caused linux/compiler_types.h to be included
in the compilation of every C file via the -include linux/kconfig.h flag
in c_flags.

Because the -include flag is present for all C files we compile, we need
the architecture-provided header to be present before any C files are
compiled. If any C files can be compiled prior to the asm-generic header
wrappers being generated then we hit a build failure due to missing
header. Such cases do exist - one pointed out by the kbuild test robot
is the compilation of arch/ia64/kernel/nr-irqs.c, which occurs as part
of the archprepare target [1].

This leaves us with a few options:

  1) Use generic-y & fix any build failures we find by enforcing
     ordering such that the asm-generic target occurs before any C
     compilation, such that linux/compiler_types.h can always include
     the generated asm-generic wrapper which in turn includes the empty
     asm-generic header. This would rely on us finding all the
     problematic cases - I don't know for sure that the ia64 issue is
     the only one.

  2) Add an actual empty header to each architecture, so that we don't
     need the generated asm-generic wrapper. This seems messy.

  3) Give up & add #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS or similar to
     linux/compiler_types.h. This seems messy too.

  4) Include the arch header only when it's actually needed, removing
     the need for the asm-generic wrapper for all other architectures.

This patch allows us to use approach 4, by including an asm/compiler.h
header from linux/compiler_types.h after the inclusion of the
compiler-specific linux/compiler-*.h header(s). We do this
conditionally, only when CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H is selected, in
order to avoid the need for asm-generic wrappers & the associated build
ordering issue described above. The asm/compiler.h header is included
after the generic linux/compiler-*.h header(s) for consistency with the
way linux/compiler-intel.h & linux/compiler-clang.h are included after
the linux/compiler-gcc.h header that they override.

[1] https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2018-August/051175.html

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20269/
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/Kconfig                   |  8 ++++++++
 include/linux/compiler_types.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 40dc31fea90c..77b3e21c4844 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -965,4 +965,12 @@ config REFCOUNT_FULL
 	  against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
 	  security flaw exploits.
 
+config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
+	bool
+	help
+	  An architecture can select this if it provides an
+	  asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
+	  linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
+	  headers generally provide.
+
 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
index 6b79a9bba9a7..4be464a07612 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
@@ -78,6 +78,18 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
 #include <linux/compiler-clang.h>
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Some architectures need to provide custom definitions of macros provided
+ * by linux/compiler-*.h, and can do so using asm/compiler.h. We include that
+ * conditionally rather than using an asm-generic wrapper in order to avoid
+ * build failures if any C compilation, which will include this file via an
+ * -include argument in c_flags, occurs prior to the asm-generic wrappers being
+ * generated.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
+#include <asm/compiler.h>
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Generic compiler-dependent macros required for kernel
  * build go below this comment. Actual compiler/compiler version
-- 
2.17.1