Re: [PATCH] rwonce: fix crash by removing READ_ONCE() for unaligned read

["Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2025, at 22:04, Jann Horn wrote:
> When arm64 is built with LTO, it upgrades READ_ONCE() to ldar / ldapr
> (load-acquire) to avoid issues that can be caused by the compiler
> optimizing away implicit address dependencies.
>
> Unlike plain loads, these load-acquire instructions actually require an
> aligned address.
>
> For now, fix it by removing the READ_ONCE() that the buggy commit
> introduced.
>
> Fixes: ece69af2ede1 ("rwonce: handle KCSAN like KASAN in read_word_at_a_time()")
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250326203926.GA10484@ax162
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

Thanks for the quick fix!

I've applied this on top of the asm-generic branch, but I just sent
the pull request with the regression to Linus an hour ago.

I'll try to get a new pull request out tomorrow.

      Arnd

> ---
>  include/asm-generic/rwonce.h | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/rwonce.h b/include/asm-generic/rwonce.h
> index e9f2b84d2338..52b969c7cef9 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/rwonce.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/rwonce.h
> @@ -86,7 +86,12 @@ unsigned long read_word_at_a_time(const void *addr)
>  	kasan_check_read(addr, 1);
>  	kcsan_check_read(addr, 1);
> 
> -	return READ_ONCE(*(unsigned long *)addr);
> +	/*
> +	 * This load can race with concurrent stores to out-of-bounds memory,
> +	 * but READ_ONCE() can't be used because it requires higher alignment
> +	 * than plain loads in arm64 builds with LTO.
> +	 */
> +	return *(unsigned long *)addr;
>  }
> 
>  #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
>
> ---
> base-commit: ece69af2ede103e190ffdfccd9f9ec850606ab5e
> change-id: 20250326-rwaat-fix-63d7557b3d88
>
> -- 
> Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>