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Re: [PATCH] ARM: decompressor: cover BSS in cache clean and reorder with MMU disable on v7

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-01-24 13:38:18

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 17:32, Ard Biesheuvel [off-list ref] wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 17:13, Russell King - ARM Linux admin
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 04:20:12PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
quoted
To ensure that no cache lines cover any of the data that is accessed by
the booting kernel with the MMU off, cover the uncompressed kernel's BSS
region in the cache clean operation.

Also, to ensure that no cachelines are allocated while the cache is being
cleaned, perform the cache clean operation *after* disabling the MMU and
caches when running on v7 or later, by making a tail call to the clean
routine from the cache_off routine. This requires passing the VA range
to cache_off(), which means some care needs to be taken to preserve
R0 and R1 across the call to cache_off().

Since this makes the first cache clean redundant, call it with the
range reduced to zero. This only affects v7, as all other versions
ignore R0/R1 entirely.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Seems to work, thanks! I'd suggest we follow up with this patch which
gets rid of all the register shuffling:
Agreed
So what I think is happening is the following:

In v5.7 and before, the set/way operations trap into KVM, which sets
another trap bit to ensure that second trap occurs the next time the
MMU is disabled. So if any cachelines are allocated after the call to
cache_clean_flush(), they will be invalidated again when KVM
invalidates the VM's entire IPA space.

According to DDI0406C.d paragraph B3.2.1, it is implementation defined
whether non-cacheable accesses that occur with MMU/caches disabled may
hit in the data cache.

So after v5.7, without set/way instructions being issued, the second
trap is never set, and so the only cache clean+invalidate that occurs
is the one that the decompressor performs itself, and the one that KVM
does on the guest's behalf at cache_off() time is omitted. This
results in clean cachelines being allocated that shadow the
mini-stack, which are hit by the non-cacheable accesses that occur
before the kernel proper enables the MMU again.

Reordering the clean+invalidate with the MMU/cache disabling prevent
the issue, as disabling the MMU and caches first disables any mappings
that the cache could perform speculative linefills from, and so the
mini-stack memory access cannot be served from the cache.

quoted
8<===
From: Russell King <redacted>
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: decompressor: tidy up register usage

Tidy up the registers so we don't end up having to shuffle values
between registers to work around other register usages.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <redacted>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
quoted
---
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 41 +++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
index b44738110095..c0a13004c5d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -930,6 +930,7 @@ ENDPROC(__setup_mmu)
Can we drop the r1 = corrupted here now?
quoted
  *  r2  = corrupted
  *  r3  = block offset
  *  r9  = corrupted
+ *  r10 = corrupted
  *  r12 = corrupted
  */
@@ -949,10 +950,10 @@ call_cache_fn:    adr     r12, proc_types
 #else
                ldr     r9, =CONFIG_PROCESSOR_ID
 #endif
-1:             ldr     r1, [r12, #0]           @ get value
+1:             ldr     r10, [r12, #0]          @ get value
                ldr     r2, [r12, #4]           @ get mask
-               eor     r1, r1, r9              @ (real ^ match)
-               tst     r1, r2                  @       & mask
+               eor     r10, r10, r9            @ (real ^ match)
+               tst     r10, r2                 @       & mask
  ARM(          addeq   pc, r12, r3             ) @ call cache function
  THUMB(                addeq   r12, r3                 )
  THUMB(                moveq   pc, r12                 ) @ call cache function
@@ -1139,8 +1140,6 @@ call_cache_fn:    adr     r12, proc_types
  */
                .align  5
 cache_off:     mov     r3, #12                 @ cache_off function
-               mov     r10, r0
-               mov     r11, r1
                b       call_cache_fn

 __armv4_mpu_cache_off:
@@ -1173,22 +1172,21 @@ cache_off:      mov     r3, #12                 @ cache_off function
                mov     pc, lr

 __armv7_mmu_cache_off:
-               mrc     p15, 0, r0, c1, c0
+               mrc     p15, 0, r3, c1, c0
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-               bic     r0, r0, #0x000d
+               bic     r3, r3, #0x000d
 #else
-               bic     r0, r0, #0x000c
+               bic     r3, r3, #0x000c
 #endif
-               mcr     p15, 0, r0, c1, c0      @ turn MMU and cache off
-               mov     r0, #0
+               mcr     p15, 0, r3, c1, c0      @ turn MMU and cache off
+               mov     r3, #0
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-               mcr     p15, 0, r0, c8, c7, 0   @ invalidate whole TLB
+               mcr     p15, 0, r3, c8, c7, 0   @ invalidate whole TLB
 #endif
-               mcr     p15, 0, r0, c7, c5, 6   @ invalidate BTC
-               mcr     p15, 0, r0, c7, c10, 4  @ DSB
-               mcr     p15, 0, r0, c7, c5, 4   @ ISB
+               mcr     p15, 0, r3, c7, c5, 6   @ invalidate BTC
+               mcr     p15, 0, r3, c7, c10, 4  @ DSB
+               mcr     p15, 0, r3, c7, c5, 4   @ ISB

-               mov     r0, r10
                b       __armv7_mmu_cache_flush

 /*
@@ -1205,7 +1203,6 @@ cache_off:        mov     r3, #12                 @ cache_off function
                .align  5
 cache_clean_flush:
                mov     r3, #16
-               mov     r11, r1
                b       call_cache_fn

 __armv4_mpu_cache_flush:
@@ -1256,15 +1253,15 @@ cache_off:      mov     r3, #12                 @ cache_off function
                mcr     p15, 0, r10, c7, c14, 0 @ clean+invalidate D
                b       iflush
 hierarchical:
-               dcache_line_size r1, r2         @ r1 := dcache min line size
-               sub     r2, r1, #1              @ r2 := line size mask
+               dcache_line_size r11, r2        @ r11 := dcache min line size
+               sub     r2, r11, #1             @ r2 := line size mask
                bic     r0, r0, r2              @ round down start to line size
-               sub     r11, r11, #1            @ end address is exclusive
-               bic     r11, r11, r2            @ round down end to line size
-0:             cmp     r0, r11                 @ finished?
+               sub     r1, r1, #1              @ end address is exclusive
+               bic     r1, r1, r2              @ round down end to line size
+0:             cmp     r0, r1                  @ finished?
                bgt     iflush
                mcr     p15, 0, r0, c7, c14, 1  @ Dcache clean/invalidate by VA
-               add     r0, r0, r1
+               add     r0, r0, r11
                b       0b
 iflush:
                mcr     p15, 0, r10, c7, c10, 4 @ DSB
--
2.20.1

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