[PATCH 5.10 61/80] s390: fix nospec table alignments

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-09-06T13:47:49Z

From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

commit c9305b6c1f52060377c72aebe3a701389e9f3172 upstream.

Add proper alignment for .nospec_call_table and .nospec_return_table in
vmlinux.

[hca@linux.ibm.com]: The problem with the missing alignment of the nospec
tables exist since a long time, however only since commit e6ed91fd0768
("s390/alternatives: remove padding generation code") and with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n the kernel may also crash at boot time.

The above named commit reduced the size of struct alt_instr by one byte,
so its new size is 11 bytes. Therefore depending on the number of cpu
alternatives the size of the __alt_instructions array maybe odd, which
again also causes that the addresses of the nospec tables will be odd.

If the address of __nospec_call_start is odd and the kernel is compiled
With CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n the compiler may generate code that loads the
address of __nospec_call_start with a 'larl' instruction.

This will generate incorrect code since the 'larl' instruction only works
with even addresses. In result the members of the nospec tables will be
accessed with an off-by-one offset, which subsequently may lead to
addressing exceptions within __nospec_revert().

Fixes: f19fbd5ed642 ("s390: introduce execute-trampolines for branches")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8719bf1ce4a72ebdeb575200290094e9ce047bcc.1661557333.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.16
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ SECTIONS
/*
* Table with the patch locations to undo expolines
*/
+ . = ALIGN(4);
.nospec_call_table : {
__nospec_call_start = . ;
*(.s390_indirect*)