From: Alexander Potapenko Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:08:08 +0000 (+0200) Subject: x86/boot/64/clang: Use fixup_pointer() to access 'next_early_pgt' X-Git-Tag: v4.13-rc6~2^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernelconcepts.de/?p=karo-tx-linux.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=187e91fe5e915f4b7f39b824aa422493463e443d x86/boot/64/clang: Use fixup_pointer() to access 'next_early_pgt' __startup_64() is normally using fixup_pointer() to access globals in a position-independent fashion. However 'next_early_pgt' was accessed directly, which wasn't guaranteed to work. Luckily GCC was generating a R_X86_64_PC32 PC-relative relocation for 'next_early_pgt', but Clang emitted a R_X86_64_32S, which led to accessing invalid memory and rebooting the kernel. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michael Davidson Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: c88d71508e36 ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816190808.131748-1-glider@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c index 46c3c73e7f43..9ba79543d9ee 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ void __head __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr) pudval_t *pud; pmdval_t *pmd, pmd_entry; int i; + unsigned int *next_pgt_ptr; /* Is the address too large? */ if (physaddr >> MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) @@ -91,9 +92,9 @@ void __head __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr) * creates a bunch of nonsense entries but that is fine -- * it avoids problems around wraparound. */ - - pud = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[next_early_pgt++], physaddr); - pmd = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[next_early_pgt++], physaddr); + next_pgt_ptr = fixup_pointer(&next_early_pgt, physaddr); + pud = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[(*next_pgt_ptr)++], physaddr); + pmd = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[(*next_pgt_ptr)++], physaddr); if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL)) { p4d = fixup_pointer(early_dynamic_pgts[next_early_pgt++], physaddr);