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arm/arm64: KVM: Map the BSS at HYP 

When used with a compiler that doesn't implement "asm goto"
(such as the AArch64 port of GCC 4.8), jump labels generate a
memory access to find out about the value of the key (instead
of just patching the code). The key itself is likely to be
stored in the BSS.

This is perfectly fine, except that we don't map the BSS at HYP,
leading to an exploding kernel at the first access. The obvious
fix is simply to map the BSS there (which should have been done
a long while ago, but hey...).

Reported-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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Marc Zyngier 2016-10-20 10:17:21 +01:00
parent 60e21a0ef5
commit c8ea0395ff
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@ -1312,6 +1312,13 @@ static int init_hyp_mode(void)
goto out_err;
}
err = create_hyp_mappings(kvm_ksym_ref(__bss_start),
kvm_ksym_ref(__bss_stop), PAGE_HYP_RO);
if (err) {
kvm_err("Cannot map bss section\n");
goto out_err;
}
/*
* Map the Hyp stack pages
*/