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powerpc: Fix stack protector crashes on CPU hotplug
Recently in commit 7241d26 ("powerpc/64: properly initialise
the stackprotector canary on SMP.") we fixed a crash with stack
protector on SMP by initialising the stack canary in
cpu_idle_thread_init().
But this can also causes crashes, when a CPU comes back online after
being offline:
Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self+0x2a0/0x2b0
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.19.0-rc3-gcc-7.3.1-00168-g4ffe713b7587 torvalds#94
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xb0/0xf4 (unreliable)
panic+0x144/0x328
__stack_chk_fail+0x2c/0x30
pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self+0x2a0/0x2b0
cpu_die+0x48/0x70
arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x20/0x40
do_idle+0x274/0x390
cpu_startup_entry+0x38/0x50
start_secondary+0x5e4/0x600
start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14
Looking at the stack we see that the canary value in the stack frame
doesn't match the canary in the task/paca. That is because we have
reinitialised the task/paca value, but then the CPU coming online has
returned into a function using the old canary value. That causes the
comparison to fail.
Instead we can call boot_init_stack_canary() from start_secondary()
which never returns. This is essentially what the generic code does in
cpu_startup_entry() under #ifdef X86, we should make that non-x86
specific in a future patch.
Fixes: 7241d26 ("powerpc/64: properly initialise the stackprotector canary on SMP.")
Reported-by: Joel Stanley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
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