x86: Clear .brk area at early boot
authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 07:14:40 +0000 (09:14 +0200)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Fri, 1 Jul 2022 09:11:34 +0000 (11:11 +0200)
commit38fa5479b41376dc9d7f57e71c83514285a25ca0
tree121800fdca14dd13f8787bb13c559a738688b1e6
parent96e8fc5818686d4a1591bb6907e7fdb64ef29884
x86: Clear .brk area at early boot

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
arch/x86/kernel/head64.c