x86: Clear .brk area at early boot

commit 38fa5479b4 upstream

fix CVE-2022-36123

The .brk section has the same properties as .bss: it is an alloc-only
section and should be cleared before being used.

Not doing so is especially a problem for Xen PV guests, as the
hypervisor will validate page tables (check for writable page tables
and hypervisor private bits) before accepting them to be used.

Make sure .brk is initially zero by letting clear_bss() clear the brk
area, too.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630071441.28576-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Xinghui Li <korantli@tencent.com>
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Juergen Gross 2022-06-30 09:14:40 +02:00 committed by Jianping Liu
parent 439f3a0e9a
commit 5a69765bc9
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@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ static void __init clear_bss(void)
{
memset(__bss_start, 0,
(unsigned long) __bss_stop - (unsigned long) __bss_start);
memset(__brk_base, 0,
(unsigned long) __brk_limit - (unsigned long) __brk_base);
}
static unsigned long get_cmd_line_ptr(void)