Re: [PATCH] ARM: spectre-v2: fix smp_processor_id() warning

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Fri Jun 24 2022 - 01:40:35 EST


On 2022/06/23 0:02, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2022/06/22 23:04, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>> Which makes me think... having the loud complaint from the kernel there
>> is actually a good thing, it makes people sit up and notice that
>> something is wrong.
>
> OK. Then, would you change the code not to emit "BUG:" message, for
> syzkaller stops testing upon encountering "BUG:" string?
>

Something like this?

arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h
index 98b37340376b..09d5c2262165 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h
@@ -20,10 +20,22 @@ typedef void (*harden_branch_predictor_fn_t)(void);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(harden_branch_predictor_fn_t, harden_branch_predictor_fn);
static inline void harden_branch_predictor(void)
{
- harden_branch_predictor_fn_t fn = per_cpu(harden_branch_predictor_fn,
- smp_processor_id());
+ static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(predictor_rs, 10 * HZ, 1);
+ const bool is_preemptible = preemptible();
+ harden_branch_predictor_fn_t fn;
+
+ if (unlikely(is_preemptible)) {
+ ratelimit_set_flags(&predictor_rs, RATELIMIT_MSG_ON_RELEASE);
+ if (__ratelimit(&predictor_rs))
+ pr_err("%s[%d] page fault with preemption enabled (exploit attempt?)\n",
+ current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
+ preempt_disable_notrace();
+ }
+ fn = per_cpu(harden_branch_predictor_fn, raw_smp_processor_id());
if (fn)
fn();
+ if (unlikely(is_preemptible))
+ preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
}
#else
#define harden_branch_predictor() do { } while (0)
--
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