[PATCH 19/19] arm64: smp: Harden parallel CPU bringup against broken PSCI firmware
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Mon Sep 7 09:40:22 PDT 2026
Since firmware has occasionally been known to get things wrong, harden
our parallel CPU bringup code against a PSCI implementation that passes
the CPU_ON argument to an incorrect CPU.
The primary CPU writes the MPIDR of the incoming CPU to the end of its
task stack and this is then checked against the MPIDR_EL1 register
during early kernel entry. A mismatch is reported via the existing
failure reporting mechanism and the CPU is not brought online.
Suggested-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw at amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h | 4 +++-
arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 11 ++++++++--
4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
index 3decb42164aa..1ecfa4fa4f82 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
/* Offsets for late (i.e. MMU-enabled) CPU boot reasons */
/* Fatal system error detected by secondary CPU, crash the system */
#define CPU_PANIC_KERNEL (0)
-#define CPU_STATUS_FLAGS_MAX (1)
+/* The PSCI v0.2+ implementation passed the wrong argument */
+#define CPU_BROKEN_PSCI_ARG (1)
+#define CPU_STATUS_FLAGS_MAX (2)
#ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 9c853ed3ceab..0cbd10af13ac 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ int main(void)
BLANK();
#endif
DEFINE(CPU_BOOT_TASK, offsetof(struct secondary_data, task));
+ DEFINE(CPU_BOOT_STATUS_FLAGS, offsetof(struct secondary_data, status.flags));
BLANK();
DEFINE(FTR_OVR_VAL_OFFSET, offsetof(struct arm64_ftr_override, val));
DEFINE(FTR_OVR_MASK_OFFSET, offsetof(struct arm64_ftr_override, mask));
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index bec4bc1b12db..56deeb9673d6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -192,11 +192,21 @@ SYM_CODE_END(preserve_boot_args)
* its location in the task stack. We reserve the entire pt_regs space
* for consistency with user tasks and kthreads.
*/
- .macro init_cpu_task tsk, tmp1, tmp2
+ .macro init_cpu_task tsk, tmp1, tmp2, check_mpidr=
msr sp_el0, \tsk
ldr \tmp1, [\tsk, #TSK_STACK]
- add sp, \tmp1, #THREAD_SIZE
+ mov sp, \tmp1
+ .ifnb \check_mpidr
+ mov_q \tmp1, MPIDR_HWID_BITMASK
+ mrs \tmp2, mpidr_el1
+ and \tmp2, \tmp2, \tmp1
+ ldr \tmp1, [sp]
+ sub \tmp1, \tmp1, \tmp2
+ cbnz \tmp1, __cpu_secondary_broken_psci_arg
+ .endif
+
+ add sp, sp, #THREAD_SIZE
sub sp, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE
stp xzr, xzr, [sp, #S_STACKFRAME]
@@ -401,11 +411,12 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__secondary_switched)
cbnz x2, 1f
adr_l x0, secondary_data
ldr x2, [x0, #CPU_BOOT_TASK]
- cbz x2, __secondary_too_slow
-
-1:
init_cpu_task x2, x1, x3
-
+ cbnz x2, 2f
+ b __secondary_too_slow
+1:
+ init_cpu_task x2, x1, x3, check_mpidr=1
+2:
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH
ptrauth_keys_init_cpu x2, x3, x4, x5
#endif
@@ -451,6 +462,22 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(set_cpu_boot_mode_flag)
dc ivac, \tmp1 // Invalidate potentially stale cache line
.endm
+ .macro update_cpu_boot_status status, tmp1, tmp2
+ adr_l \tmp1, secondary_data
+ add \tmp1, \tmp1, #CPU_BOOT_STATUS_FLAGS + \status
+ mov \tmp2, #1
+ strb w\tmp2, [\tmp1]
+ .endm
+
+SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__cpu_secondary_broken_psci_arg)
+ update_cpu_boot_status CPU_BROKEN_PSCI_ARG, x0, x1
+1:
+ wfe
+ wfi
+ b 1b
+SYM_FUNC_END(__cpu_secondary_broken_psci_arg)
+
+
/*
* Enable the MMU.
*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index d5da44949671..95af5384885b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -119,10 +119,12 @@ int arch_cpuhp_kick_ap_alive(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
* We need to tell the secondary core where to find its stack and the
* page tables.
*/
- if (smp_parallel_bringup)
+ if (smp_parallel_bringup) {
+ *((u64 *)idle->stack) = cpu_logical_map(cpu);
arg = idle;
- else
+ } else {
secondary_data.task = idle;
+ }
/* Now bring the CPU into our world */
if (ops->cpu_boot)
@@ -158,6 +160,11 @@ void arch_cpuhp_cleanup_kick_cpu(unsigned int cpu, bool is_alive)
}
status = READ_ONCE(secondary_data.status);
+ if (status.flags[CPU_BROKEN_PSCI_ARG]) {
+ pr_crit_once("CPU%u detected broken PSCI v0.2+ CPU_ON argument passing\n",
+ cpu);
+ }
+
if (status.flags[CPU_PANIC_KERNEL])
panic("CPU%u detected unsupported configuration\n", cpu);
--
2.55.0.979.g7e5102b832-goog
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