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authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>2025-05-03 09:46:31 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-05-18 08:24:11 +0200
commit6699bf27a47156baafde7e3f4a732aab2ad9f8cb (patch)
treefcbd56c5fefb7ec944368215ac135374f8afe196
parent9e7364c32c6cfa6d5765fb0d304da21f7c80c47c (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>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index ecf105f37de7..a179cfff3903 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
#include <asm/paravirt.h>
#include <asm/asm-prototypes.h>
+#include <asm/cfi.h>
int __read_mostly alternatives_patched;
@@ -1629,6 +1630,8 @@ static noinline void __init alt_reloc_selftest(void)
void __init alternative_instructions(void)
{
+ u64 ibt;
+
int3_selftest();
/*
@@ -1666,6 +1669,9 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void)
*/
paravirt_set_cap();
+ /* Keep CET-IBT disabled until caller/callee are patched */
+ ibt = ibt_save(/*disable*/ true);
+
/*
* First patch paravirt functions, such that we overwrite the indirect
* call with the direct call.
@@ -1699,6 +1705,8 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void)
*/
apply_seal_endbr(__ibt_endbr_seal, __ibt_endbr_seal_end);
+ ibt_restore(ibt);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/* Patch to UP if other cpus not imminent. */
if (!noreplace_smp && (num_present_cpus() == 1 || setup_max_cpus <= 1)) {