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    x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try · 99b180a1
    Borislav Petkov authored
    mainline inclusion
    from mainline-v5.7
    commit a9a3ed1e
    category: bugfix
    bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I5Q0UG?from=project-issue
    
    
    CVE: NA
    
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    ... 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: default avatarSergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Tested-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200314164451.346497-1-slyfox@gentoo.org
    
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatartangbin <tangbin_yewu@cmss.chinamobile.com>
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