On 23/11/2018 14:30, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
LLVM code generation can attempt to load from a variable in the next
condition of an expression under certain circumstances, thus turning
the following condition:

if ( system_state < SYS_STATE_active && opt_bootscrub == BOOTSCRUB_IDLE )

Into:

0xffff82d080223967 <+103>: cmpl   $0x3,0x37b032(%rip) # 0xffff82d08059e9a0 
<system_state>
0xffff82d08022396e <+110>: setb   -0x29(%rbp)
0xffff82d080223972 <+114>: cmpl   $0x2,0x228a8b(%rip) # 0xffff82d08044c404 
<opt_bootscrub>

Such code will trigger a page fault if system_state >=
SYS_STATE_active because opt_bootscrub will be unmapped.

Fix this by making opt_bootscrub non-init, thus preventing the page
fault. The LLVM bug with the discussion about this issue can be found
at:

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39707

I haven't been able to find any other instances of such conditional
expression that uses system_state together with an init variable or
function.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Julien Grall <[email protected]>

Cheers,

---
Cc: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
Cc: George Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Cc: Julien Grall <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Deegan <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Sergey Dyasli <[email protected]>
---
  xen/common/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/page_alloc.c b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
index 08ee8cfbb9..56c0b24865 100644
--- a/xen/common/page_alloc.c
+++ b/xen/common/page_alloc.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ enum bootscrub_mode {
      BOOTSCRUB_ON,
      BOOTSCRUB_IDLE,
  };
-static enum bootscrub_mode __initdata opt_bootscrub = BOOTSCRUB_IDLE;
+static enum bootscrub_mode opt_bootscrub = BOOTSCRUB_IDLE;
  static int __init parse_bootscrub_param(const char *s)
  {
      /* Interpret 'bootscrub' alone in its positive boolean form */


--
Julien Grall

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