From: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de
commit a9a3ed1eff3601b63aea4fb462d8b3b92c7c1e7e upstream.
... or the odyssey of trying to disable the stack protector for the function which generates the stack canary value.
The whole story started with Sergei reporting a boot crash with a kernel built with gcc-10:
Kernel panic — not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc5—00235—gfffb08b37df9 #139 Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77M—D3H, BIOS F12 11/14/2013 Call Trace: dump_stack panic ? start_secondary __stack_chk_fail start_secondary secondary_startup_64 -—-[ end Kernel panic — not syncing: stack—protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary
This happens because gcc-10 tail-call optimizes the last function call in start_secondary() - cpu_startup_entry() - and thus emits a stack canary check which fails because the canary value changes after the boot_init_stack_canary() call.
To fix that, the initial attempt was to mark the one function which generates the stack canary with:
__attribute__((optimize("-fno-stack-protector"))) ... start_secondary(void *unused)
however, using the optimize attribute doesn't work cumulatively as the attribute does not add to but rather replaces previously supplied optimization options - roughly all -fxxx options.
The key one among them being -fno-omit-frame-pointer and thus leading to not present frame pointer - frame pointer which the kernel needs.
The next attempt to prevent compilers from tail-call optimizing the last function call cpu_startup_entry(), shy of carving out start_secondary() into a separate compilation unit and building it with -fno-stack-protector, was to add an empty asm("").
This current solution was short and sweet, and reportedly, is supported by both compilers but we didn't get very far this time: future (LTO?) optimization passes could potentially eliminate this, which leads us to the third attempt: having an actual memory barrier there which the compiler cannot ignore or move around etc.
That should hold for a long time, but hey we said that about the other two solutions too so...
Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich slyfox@gentoo.org Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Tested-by: Kalle Valo kvalo@codeaurora.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200314164451.346497-1-slyfox@gentoo.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h | 7 ++++++- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 8 ++++++++ arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c | 1 + include/linux/compiler.h | 6 ++++++ init/main.c | 2 ++ 5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h @@ -55,8 +55,13 @@ /* * Initialize the stackprotector canary value. * - * NOTE: this must only be called from functions that never return, + * NOTE: this must only be called from functions that never return * and it must always be inlined. + * + * In addition, it should be called from a compilation unit for which + * stack protector is disabled. Alternatively, the caller should not end + * with a function call which gets tail-call optimized as that would + * lead to checking a modified canary value. */ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void) { --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c @@ -270,6 +270,14 @@ static void notrace start_secondary(void
wmb(); cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE); + + /* + * Prevent tail call to cpu_startup_entry() because the stack protector + * guard has been changed a couple of function calls up, in + * boot_init_stack_canary() and must not be checked before tail calling + * another function. + */ + prevent_tail_call_optimization(); }
/** --- a/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void cpu_bringup_an { cpu_bringup(); cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE); + prevent_tail_call_optimization(); }
void xen_smp_intr_free_pv(unsigned int cpu) --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -382,4 +382,10 @@ unsigned long read_word_at_a_time(const (_________p1); \ })
+/* + * This is needed in functions which generate the stack canary, see + * arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c::start_secondary() for an example. + */ +#define prevent_tail_call_optimization() mb() + #endif /* __LINUX_COMPILER_H */ --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -706,6 +706,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_k
/* Do the rest non-__init'ed, we're now alive */ rest_init(); + + prevent_tail_call_optimization(); }
/* Call all constructor functions linked into the kernel. */