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| author | Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> | 2025-05-03 09:46:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2025-05-18 08:24:11 +0200 |
| commit | 6699bf27a47156baafde7e3f4a732aab2ad9f8cb (patch) | |
| tree | fcbd56c5fefb7ec944368215ac135374f8afe196 /include/linux | |
| parent | 9e7364c32c6cfa6d5765fb0d304da21f7c80c47c (diff) | |
x86/ibt: Keep IBT disabled during alternative patching
commit ebebe30794d38c51f71fe4951ba6af4159d9837d upstream.
cfi_rewrite_callers() updates the fineIBT hash matching at the caller side,
but except for paranoid-mode it relies on apply_retpoline() and friends for
any ENDBR relocation. This could temporarily cause an indirect branch to
land on a poisoned ENDBR.
For instance, with para-virtualization enabled, a simple wrmsrl() could
have an indirect branch pointing to native_write_msr() who's ENDBR has been
relocated due to fineIBT:
<wrmsrl>:
push %rbp
mov %rsp,%rbp
mov %esi,%eax
mov %rsi,%rdx
shr $0x20,%rdx
mov %edi,%edi
mov %rax,%rsi
call *0x21e65d0(%rip) # <pv_ops+0xb8>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Such an indirect call during the alternative patching could #CP if the
caller is not *yet* adjusted for the new target ENDBR. To prevent a false
#CP, keep CET-IBT disabled until all callers are patched.
Patching during the module load does not need to be guarded by IBT-disable
because the module code is not executed until the patching is complete.
[ pawan: Since apply_paravirt() happens before __apply_fineibt()
relocates the ENDBR, pv_ops in the example above is not relevant.
It is still safer to keep this commit because missing an ENDBR
means an oops. ]
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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