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authorJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>2020-07-21 12:34:48 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-07-29 11:18:45 +0300
commit697bd3e4aa4ba9c3ec10a4b43192b58b12e580dc (patch)
tree01de39bd7e7148289c51ece5037fbfd9ddaaf9ba /arch/x86
parentc89af82f64a09f32dcec44bdbecf1d07ab6d2778 (diff)
downloadlinux-697bd3e4aa4ba9c3ec10a4b43192b58b12e580dc.tar.xz
x86, vmlinux.lds: Page-align end of ..page_aligned sections
commit de2b41be8fcccb2f5b6c480d35df590476344201 upstream. On x86-32 the idt_table with 256 entries needs only 2048 bytes. It is page-aligned, but the end of the .bss..page_aligned section is not guaranteed to be page-aligned. As a result, objects from other .bss sections may end up on the same 4k page as the idt_table, and will accidentially get mapped read-only during boot, causing unexpected page-faults when the kernel writes to them. This could be worked around by making the objects in the page aligned sections page sized, but that's wrong. Explicit sections which store only page aligned objects have an implicit guarantee that the object is alone in the page in which it is placed. That works for all objects except the last one. That's inconsistent. Enforcing page sized objects for these sections would wreckage memory sanitizers, because the object becomes artificially larger than it should be and out of bound access becomes legit. Align the end of the .bss..page_aligned and .data..page_aligned section on page-size so all objects places in these sections are guaranteed to have their own page. [ tglx: Amended changelog ] Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721093448.10417-1-joro@8bytes.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index bac1a65a9d39..1afe211d7a7c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ SECTIONS
.bss : AT(ADDR(.bss) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__bss_start = .;
*(.bss..page_aligned)
+ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
*(BSS_MAIN)
BSS_DECRYPTED
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);