[PATCH master] ARM64: setupc: don't invoke KASAN before relocation
Sascha Hauer
sha at pengutronix.de
Sun Apr 16 23:52:56 PDT 2023
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 10:34:47AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> Plain memset and memcpy are checked by KASAN if enabled before calling
> unchecked __memset and __memcpy respectively.
>
> KASAN uses a kasan_initialized variable as first condition in its memory
> check, but that only works after relocation. For that reason, we must
> take care not to invoke KASAN before then. This was done for ARM32, but
> was missing for ARM64. Do so now.
>
> This fixes an annoying issue where network booting a KASAN-enabled barebox
> twice in a row would fail: The first happened to work because the memory
> kasan_initialized was placed at was zero. The second would behave
> erratically, because BSS initialization would silently fail and barebox
> static storage would then be initialized with the final values of the
> previous run.
>
> Fixes: 932ef7a02e2f ("ARM: Add KASan support")
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
Applied, thanks
Sascha
> ---
> I wondered if there's a way to print a KASAN error that early, but it's
> not easy. Calling even global_variable_offset() in kasan_report caused
> infinite recursion, despite use of __no_sanitize_address. Printing
> unconditionally could be a way around this.
> ---
> arch/arm/cpu/setupc_64.S | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/setupc_64.S b/arch/arm/cpu/setupc_64.S
> index d64281c148fc..f38f893be90b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/setupc_64.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/setupc_64.S
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ENTRY(setup_c)
> mov x1, #0
> ldr x2, =__bss_stop
> sub x2, x2, x0
> - bl memset /* clear bss */
> + bl __memset /* clear bss */
> mov x30, x15
> ret
> ENDPROC(setup_c)
> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ ENTRY(relocate_to_adr)
> sub x19, x19, x1 /* sub address where we are actually running */
> add x19, x19, x0 /* add address where we are going to run */
>
> - bl memcpy /* copy binary */
> + bl __memcpy /* copy binary */
>
> bl sync_caches_for_execution
>
> --
> 2.39.2
>
>
>
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