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    x86/vdso: Prevent segfaults due to hoisted vclock reads · ff17bbe0
    Andy Lutomirski authored
    GCC 5.5.0 sometimes cleverly hoists reads of the pvclock and/or hvclock
    pages before the vclock mode checks.  This creates a path through
    vclock_gettime() in which no vclock is enabled at all (due to disabled
    TSC on old CPUs, for example) but the pvclock or hvclock page
    nevertheless read.  This will segfault on bare metal.
    
    This fixes commit 459e3a21 ("gcc-9: properly declare the
    {pv,hv}clock_page storage") in the sense that, before that commit, GCC
    didn't seem to generate the offending code.  There was nothing wrong
    with that commit per se, and -stable maintainers should backport this to
    all supported kernels regardless of whether the offending commit was
    present, since the same crash could just as easily be triggered by the
    phase of the moon.
    
    On GCC 9.1.1, this doesn't seem to affect the generated code at all, so
    I'm not too concerned about performance regressions from this fix.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: x86@kernel.org
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Reported-by: default avatarDuncan Roe <duncan_roe@optusnet.com.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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