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authorAndy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>2023-02-06 12:04:40 +0300
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2023-02-22 04:21:16 +0300
commit9ddfc3cd806081ce1f6c9c2f988cbb031f35d28f (patch)
tree1a144af3e446d6a03d43f56190fca3e929013904 /arch/riscv
parent2350bd192fa2d9ffa7a0dc7db12699c0f71af7f8 (diff)
downloadlinux-9ddfc3cd806081ce1f6c9c2f988cbb031f35d28f.tar.xz
riscv: jump_label: Fixup unaligned arch_static_branch function
Runtime code patching must be done at a naturally aligned address, or we may execute on a partial instruction. We have encountered problems traced back to static jump functions during the test. We switched the tracer randomly for every 1~5 seconds on a dual-core QEMU setup and found the kernel sucking at a static branch where it jumps to itself. The reason is that the static branch was 2-byte but not 4-byte aligned. Then, the kernel would patch the instruction, either J or NOP, with two half-word stores if the machine does not have efficient unaligned accesses. Thus, moments exist where half of the NOP mixes with the other half of the J when transitioning the branch. In our particular case, on a little-endian machine, the upper half of the NOP was mixed with the lower part of the J when enabling the branch, resulting in a jump that jumped to itself. Conversely, it would result in a HINT instruction when disabling the branch, but it might not be observable. ARM64 does not have this problem since all instructions must be 4-byte aligned. Fixes: ebc00dde8a97 ("riscv: Add jump-label implementation") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220913094252.3555240-6-andy.chiu@sifive.com/ Reviewed-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230206090440.1255001-1-guoren@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv')
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/include/asm/jump_label.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/jump_label.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/jump_label.h
index 6d58bbb5da46..14a5ea8d8ef0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/jump_label.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/jump_label.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct static_key * const key,
const bool branch)
{
asm_volatile_goto(
+ " .align 2 \n\t"
" .option push \n\t"
" .option norelax \n\t"
" .option norvc \n\t"
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch_jump(struct static_key * const ke
const bool branch)
{
asm_volatile_goto(
+ " .align 2 \n\t"
" .option push \n\t"
" .option norelax \n\t"
" .option norvc \n\t"