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[ Upstream commit 98d0219e043e09013e883eacde3b93e0b2bf944d ] If a relocatable kernel is loaded at an address that is not 2MB aligned and told not to relocate to zero, the kernel can crash due to mark_rodata_ro() incorrectly changing some read-write data to read-only. Scenarios where the misalignment can occur are when the kernel is loaded by kdump or using the RELOCATABLE_TEST config option. Example crash with the kernel loaded at 5MB: Run /sbin/init as init process BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on write at 0xc000000000452000 Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000005b6730 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-00011-g349188be4841 #166 Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER9 (raw) 0x4e1202 0xf000005 of:SLOF,git-5b4c5a hv:linux,kvm pSeries NIP: c0000000005b6730 LR: c000000000ae9ab8 CTR: 0000000000000380 REGS: c000000004503250 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (6.2.0-rc1-00011-g349188be4841) MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 44288480 XER: 00000000 CFAR: c0000000005b66ec DAR: c000000000452000 DSISR: 0a000000 IRQMASK: 0 ... NIP memset+0x68/0x104 LR zero_user_segments.constprop.0+0xa8/0xf0 Call Trace: ext4_mpage_readpages+0x7f8/0x830 ext4_readahead+0x48/0x60 read_pages+0xb8/0x380 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x19c/0x250 filemap_fault+0x58c/0xae0 __do_fault+0x60/0x100 __handle_mm_fault+0x1230/0x1a40 handle_mm_fault+0x120/0x300 ___do_page_fault+0x20c/0xa80 do_page_fault+0x30/0xc0 data_access_common_virt+0x210/0x220 This happens because mark_rodata_ro() tries to change permissions on the range _stext..__end_rodata, but _stext sits in the middle of the 2MB page from 4MB to 6MB: radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000200000 with 2.00 MiB pages (exec) radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000200000-0x0000000000400000 with 2.00 MiB pages radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000400000-0x0000000002400000 with 2.00 MiB pages (exec) The logic that changes the permissions assumes the linear mapping was split correctly at boot, so it marks the entire 2MB page read-only. That leads to the write fault above. To fix it, the boot time mapping logic needs to consider that if the kernel is running at a non-zero address then _stext is a boundary where it must split the mapping. That leads to the mapping being split correctly, allowing the rodata permission change to take happen correctly, with no spillover: radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000200000 with 2.00 MiB pages (exec) radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000200000-0x0000000000400000 with 2.00 MiB pages radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000400000-0x0000000000500000 with 64.0 KiB pages radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000500000-0x0000000000600000 with 64.0 KiB pages (exec) radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000600000-0x0000000002400000 with 2.00 MiB pages (exec) If the kernel is loaded at a 2MB aligned address, the mapping continues to use 2MB pages as before: radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000200000 with 2.00 MiB pages (exec) radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000200000-0x0000000000400000 with 2.00 MiB pages radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000000400000-0x0000000002c00000 with 2.00 MiB pages (exec) radix-mmu: Mapped 0x0000000002c00000-0x0000000100000000 with 2.00 MiB pages Fixes: c55d7b5e6426 ("powerpc: Remove STRICT_KERNEL_RWX incompatibility with RELOCATABLE") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230110124753.1325426-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au Stable-dep-of: 111bcb373853 ("powerpc/64s/radix: Fix RWX mapping with relocated kernel") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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