From: Andy Chiu andy.chiu@sifive.com
commit 9ddfc3cd806081ce1f6c9c2f988cbb031f35d28f upstream.
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@sifiv... 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/riscv/include/asm/jump_label.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- 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_ 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_ bool branch) { asm_volatile_goto( + " .align 2 \n\t" " .option push \n\t" " .option norelax \n\t" " .option norvc \n\t"