[PATCH -fixes] riscv: Check if the code to patch lies in the exit section

Alexandre Ghiti alexghiti at rivosinc.com
Wed Dec 6 08:54:58 PST 2023


Otherwise we fall through to vmalloc_to_page() which panics since the
address does not lie in the vmalloc region.

Fixes: 043cb41a85de ("riscv: introduce interfaces to patch kernel code")
Reported-by: syzbot+2c2a76232878c44e0eae at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000ce4a27060b39ed34@google.com/T/
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h |  1 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c         | 11 ++++++++++-
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S   |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h
index 32336e8a17cb..a393d5035c54 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ extern char _start_kernel[];
 extern char __init_data_begin[], __init_data_end[];
 extern char __init_text_begin[], __init_text_end[];
 extern char __alt_start[], __alt_end[];
+extern char __exittext_begin[], __exittext_end[];
 
 static inline bool is_va_kernel_text(uintptr_t va)
 {
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
index 13ee7bf589a1..37e87fdcf6a0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <asm/fixmap.h>
 #include <asm/ftrace.h>
 #include <asm/patch.h>
+#include <asm/sections.h>
 
 struct patch_insn {
 	void *addr;
@@ -25,6 +26,14 @@ struct patch_insn {
 int riscv_patch_in_stop_machine = false;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+
+static inline bool is_kernel_exittext(uintptr_t addr)
+{
+	return system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING &&
+		addr >= (uintptr_t)__exittext_begin &&
+		addr < (uintptr_t)__exittext_end;
+}
+
 /*
  * The fix_to_virt(, idx) needs a const value (not a dynamic variable of
  * reg-a0) or BUILD_BUG_ON failed with "idx >= __end_of_fixed_addresses".
@@ -35,7 +44,7 @@ static __always_inline void *patch_map(void *addr, const unsigned int fixmap)
 	uintptr_t uintaddr = (uintptr_t) addr;
 	struct page *page;
 
-	if (core_kernel_text(uintaddr))
+	if (core_kernel_text(uintaddr) || is_kernel_exittext(uintaddr))
 		page = phys_to_page(__pa_symbol(addr));
 	else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX))
 		page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 492dd4b8f3d6..002ca58dd998 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -69,10 +69,12 @@ SECTIONS
 		__soc_builtin_dtb_table_end = .;
 	}
 	/* we have to discard exit text and such at runtime, not link time */
+	__exittext_begin = .;
 	.exit.text :
 	{
 		EXIT_TEXT
 	}
+	__exittext_end = .;
 
 	__init_text_end = .;
 	. = ALIGN(SECTION_ALIGN);
-- 
2.39.2




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