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A ::preserve_context kimage can be invoked more than once, and the entry point
can be different every time. When the callee returns to the kernel, it leaves
the address of its entry point for next time on the stack.

That being the case, one might reasonably assume that the caller would
allocate space for it on the stack frame before actually performing the 'call'
into the callee.

Apparently not, though. Ever since the kjump code was first added in 2009, it
has set up a *new* stack at the top of the swap_page scratch page, then just
performed the 'call' without allocating any space for the re-entry address to
be returned. It then reads the re-entry point for next time from 0(%rsp) which
is actually the first qword of the page *after* the swap page, which might not
exist at all! And if the callee has written to that, then it will have
corrupted memory it doesn't own.

Correct this by pushing the entry point of the callee onto the stack before
calling it. The callee may then adjust it, or not, as it sees fit, and
subsequent invocations should work correctly either way.

Remove a stray push of zero to the *relocate_kernel* stack, which may have
been intended for this purpose, but which was actually just noise.

Also, loading the stack for the callee relied on the address of the swap page
being in %r10 without ever documenting that fact. Recent code changes made
that no longer true, so load it directly from the local kexec_pa_swap_page
variable instead.

Fixes: b3adaba ("x86/kexec: Drop page_list argument from relocate_kernel()")
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250109140757.2841269-5-dwmw2@infradead.org
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dwmw2 authored and bp3tk0v committed Jan 14, 2025
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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
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Expand Up @@ -113,8 +113,6 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(identity_mapped)
* %r13 original CR4 when relocate_kernel() was invoked
*/

/* set return address to 0 if not preserving context */
pushq $0
/* store the start address on the stack */
pushq %rdx

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.Lrelocate:
popq %rdx

/* Use the swap page for the callee's stack */
movq kexec_pa_swap_page(%rip), %r10
leaq PAGE_SIZE(%r10), %rsp

/* push the existing entry point onto the callee's stack */
pushq %rdx

ANNOTATE_RETPOLINE_SAFE
call *%rdx

/* get the re-entry point of the peer system */
movq 0(%rsp), %rbp
popq %rbp
leaq relocate_kernel(%rip), %r8
movq kexec_pa_swap_page(%rip), %r10
movq pa_backup_pages_map(%rip), %rdi
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -247,6 +252,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(virtual_mapped)
lgdt saved_context_gdt_desc(%rax)
#endif

/* relocate_kernel() returns the re-entry point for next time */
movq %rbp, %rax

popf
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