On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 08:40:24AM -0700, fei.yang@intel.com wrote:
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Fei has reported that KASAN triggers during apply_alternatives() on a 5-level paging machine:
BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in rcu_is_watching() Read of size 4 at addr ff110003ee6419a0 by task swapper/0/0 ... __asan_load4() rcu_is_watching() trace_hardirqs_on() text_poke_early() apply_alternatives() ...
On machines with 5-level paging, cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_LA57) gets patched. It includes KASAN code, where KASAN_SHADOW_START depends on __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT, which is defined with cpu_feature_enabled().
KASAN gets confused when apply_alternatives() patches the KASAN_SHADOW_START users. A test patch that makes KASAN_SHADOW_START static, by replacing __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT with 56, works around the issue.
Fix it for real by disabling KASAN while the kernel is patching alternatives.
[ mingo: updated the changelog ]
Fixes: 6657fca06e3f ("x86/mm: Allow to boot without LA57 if CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y") Reported-by: Fei Yang fei.yang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012100424.1456-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.... (cherry picked from commit d35652a5fc9944784f6f50a5c979518ff8dacf61)
Acked-by: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@intel.com
Lucas De Marchi