From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:55:44 -0700 Subject: s390: fix nospec table alignments Git-commit: c9305b6c1f52060377c72aebe3a701389e9f3172 Patch-mainline: v6.0-rc4 References: git-fixes Add proper alignment for .nospec_call_table and .nospec_return_table in vmlinux. [hca@linux.ibm.com]: The problem with the missing alignment of the nospec tables exist since a long time, however only since commit e6ed91fd0768 ("s390/alternatives: remove padding generation code") and with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n the kernel may also crash at boot time. The above named commit reduced the size of struct alt_instr by one byte, so its new size is 11 bytes. Therefore depending on the number of cpu alternatives the size of the __alt_instructions array maybe odd, which again also causes that the addresses of the nospec tables will be odd. If the address of __nospec_call_start is odd and the kernel is compiled With CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n the compiler may generate code that loads the address of __nospec_call_start with a 'larl' instruction. This will generate incorrect code since the 'larl' instruction only works with even addresses. In result the members of the nospec tables will be accessed with an off-by-one offset, which subsequently may lead to addressing exceptions within __nospec_revert(). Fixes: f19fbd5ed642 ("s390: introduce execute-trampolines for branches") Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8719bf1ce4a72ebdeb575200290094e9ce047bcc.1661557333.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Cc: # 4.16 Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik Acked-by: Petr Tesarik --- arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ SECTIONS /* * Table with the patch locations to undo expolines */ + . = ALIGN(4); .nospec_call_table : { __nospec_call_start = . ; *(.s390_indirect*)