[PATCH 6.8 079/143] x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-11T10:10:31Z

From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit b388e57d4628eb22782bdad4cd5b83ca87a1b7c9 ]

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
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
index b1b8dd1608f7e..4ee59121b9053 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
@@ -34,8 +34,12 @@ obj-y += vma.o extable.o
KASAN_SANITIZE_vma.o := y
UBSAN_SANITIZE_vma.o := y
KCSAN_SANITIZE_vma.o := y
-OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vma.o := n
-OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_extable.o := n
+
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_extable.o := n
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vdso-image-32.o := n
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vdso-image-64.o := n
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vdso32-setup.o := n
+OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vma.o := n

# vDSO images to build
vdso_img-$(VDSO64-y) += 64
@@ -43,7 +47,6 @@ vdso_img-$(VDSOX32-y) += x32
vdso_img-$(VDSO32-y) += 32

obj-$(VDSO32-y) += vdso32-setup.o
-OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_vdso32-setup.o := n

vobjs := $(foreach F,$(vobjs-y),$(obj)/$F)
vobjs32 := $(foreach F,$(vobjs32-y),$(obj)/$F)
--
2.43.0