Commit 2225a8dd authored by Ariel Marcovitch's avatar Ariel Marcovitch Committed by Michael Ellerman

powerpc: Fix alignment bug within the init sections

This is a bug that causes early crashes in builds with an .exit.text
section smaller than a page and an .init.text section that ends in the
beginning of a physical page (this is kinda random, which might
explain why this wasn't really encountered before).

The init sections are ordered like this:
  .init.text
  .exit.text
  .init.data

Currently, these sections aren't page aligned.

Because the init code might become read-only at runtime and because
the .init.text section can potentially reside on the same physical
page as .init.data, the beginning of .init.data might be mapped
read-only along with .init.text.

Then when the kernel tries to modify a variable in .init.data (like
kthreadd_done, used in kernel_init()) the kernel panics.

To avoid this, make _einittext page aligned and also align .exit.text
to make sure .init.data is always seperated from the text segments.

Fixes: 060ef9d8 ("powerpc32: PAGE_EXEC required for inittext")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAriel Marcovitch <ariel.marcovitch@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210102201156.10805-1-ariel.marcovitch@gmail.com
parent 3ce47d95
......@@ -187,6 +187,12 @@ SECTIONS
.init.text : AT(ADDR(.init.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
_sinittext = .;
INIT_TEXT
/*
*.init.text might be RO so we must ensure this section ends on
* a page boundary.
*/
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
_einittext = .;
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
*(.tramp.ftrace.init);
......@@ -200,6 +206,8 @@ SECTIONS
EXIT_TEXT
}
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
. = ALIGN(8);
......
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