arm64/kernel: don't ban ADRP to work around Cortex-A53 erratum #843419

Working around Cortex-A53 erratum #843419 involves special handling of
ADRP instructions that end up in the last two instruction slots of a
4k page, or whose output register gets overwritten without having been
read. (Note that the latter instruction sequence is never emitted by
a properly functioning compiler, which is why it is disregarded by the
handling of the same erratum in the bfd.ld linker which we rely on for
the core kernel)

Normally, this gets taken care of by the linker, which can spot such
sequences at final link time, and insert a veneer if the ADRP ends up
at a vulnerable offset. However, linux kernel modules are partially
linked ELF objects, and so there is no 'final link time' other than the
runtime loading of the module, at which time all the static relocations
are resolved.

For this reason, we have implemented the #843419 workaround for modules
by avoiding ADRP instructions altogether, by using the large C model,
and by passing -mpc-relative-literal-loads to recent versions of GCC
that may emit adrp/ldr pairs to perform literal loads. However, this
workaround forces us to keep literal data mixed with the instructions
in the executable .text segment, and literal data may inadvertently
turn into an exploitable speculative gadget depending on the relative
offsets of arbitrary symbols.

So let's reimplement this workaround in a way that allows us to switch
back to the small C model, and to drop the -mpc-relative-literal-loads
GCC switch, by patching affected ADRP instructions at runtime:
- ADRP instructions that do not appear at 4k relative offset 0xff8 or
  0xffc are ignored
- ADRP instructions that are within 1 MB of their target symbol are
  converted into ADR instructions
- remaining ADRP instructions are redirected via a veneer that performs
  the load using an unaffected movn/movk sequence.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
[will: tidied up ADRP -> ADR instruction patching.]
[will: use ULL suffix for 64-bit immediate]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index b4234dd..0f350b8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -456,12 +456,12 @@ config ARM64_ERRATUM_845719
 config ARM64_ERRATUM_843419
 	bool "Cortex-A53: 843419: A load or store might access an incorrect address"
 	default y
-	select ARM64_MODULE_CMODEL_LARGE if MODULES
+	select ARM64_MODULE_PLTS if MODULES
 	help
 	  This option links the kernel with '--fix-cortex-a53-843419' and
-	  builds modules using the large memory model in order to avoid the use
-	  of the ADRP instruction, which can cause a subsequent memory access
-	  to use an incorrect address on Cortex-A53 parts up to r0p4.
+	  enables PLT support to replace certain ADRP instructions, which can
+	  cause subsequent memory accesses to use an incorrect address on
+	  Cortex-A53 parts up to r0p4.
 
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
@@ -1105,9 +1105,6 @@ config ARM64_SVE
 
 	  To enable use of this extension on CPUs that implement it, say Y.
 
-config ARM64_MODULE_CMODEL_LARGE
-	bool
-
 config ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
 	bool
 	select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC