tree bb83c56a535273b19fe4e033708cc754611d4d6c
parent e575fb9e76c8e33440fb859572a8b7d430f053d6
author Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> 1592330629 +0100
committer Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> 1592389138 +0100

arm64: bti: Require clang >= 10.0.1 for in-kernel BTI support

Unfortunately, most versions of clang that support BTI are capable of
miscompiling the kernel when converting a switch statement into a jump
table. As an example, attempting to spawn a KVM guest results in a panic:

[   56.253312] Kernel panic - not syncing: bad mode
[   56.253834] CPU: 0 PID: 279 Comm: lkvm Not tainted 5.8.0-rc1 #2
[   56.254225] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
[   56.254712] Call trace:
[   56.254952]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1d4
[   56.255305]  show_stack+0x1c/0x28
[   56.255647]  dump_stack+0xc4/0x128
[   56.255905]  panic+0x16c/0x35c
[   56.256146]  bad_el0_sync+0x0/0x58
[   56.256403]  el1_sync_handler+0xb4/0xe0
[   56.256674]  el1_sync+0x7c/0x100
[   56.256928]  kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension_generic+0x74/0x98
[   56.257286]  __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x94/0xcc
[   56.257569]  el0_svc_common+0x9c/0x150
[   56.257836]  do_el0_svc+0x84/0x90
[   56.258083]  el0_sync_handler+0xf8/0x298
[   56.258361]  el0_sync+0x158/0x180

This is because the switch in kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension_generic()
is executed as an indirect branch to tail-call through a jump table:

ffff800010032dc8:       3869694c        ldrb    w12, [x10, x9]
ffff800010032dcc:       8b0c096b        add     x11, x11, x12, lsl #2
ffff800010032dd0:       d61f0160        br      x11

However, where the target case uses the stack, the landing pad is elided
due to the presence of a paciasp instruction:

ffff800010032e14:       d503233f        paciasp
ffff800010032e18:       a9bf7bfd        stp     x29, x30, [sp, #-16]!
ffff800010032e1c:       910003fd        mov     x29, sp
ffff800010032e20:       aa0803e0        mov     x0, x8
ffff800010032e24:       940017c0        bl      ffff800010038d24 <kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension>
ffff800010032e28:       93407c00        sxtw    x0, w0
ffff800010032e2c:       a8c17bfd        ldp     x29, x30, [sp], #16
ffff800010032e30:       d50323bf        autiasp
ffff800010032e34:       d65f03c0        ret

Unfortunately, this results in a fatal exception because paciasp is
compatible only with branch-and-link (call) instructions and not simple
indirect branches.

A fix is being merged into Clang 10.0.1 so that a 'bti j' instruction is
emitted as an explicit landing pad in this situation. Make in-kernel
BTI depend on that compiler version when building with clang.

Cc: Tom Stellard <tstellar@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Kiss <daniel.kiss@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615105524.GA2694@willie-the-truck
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200616183630.2445-1-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>