[PATCH] arm64: Add support to supply 'kaslr-seed' to secondary kernel

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Sun Apr 15 19:30:16 PDT 2018


Bhupesh,

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 01:49:40AM +0530, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
> This patch adds the support to supply 'kaslr-seed' to secondary kernel,
> when we do a 'kexec warm reboot to another kernel' (although the
> behaviour remains the same for the 'kdump' case as well) on arm64
> platforms using the 'kexec_load' invocation method.
> 
> Lets consider the case where the primary kernel working on the arm64
> platform supports kaslr (i.e 'CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE' was set to y and
> we have a compliant EFI firmware which supports EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL and
> hence can pass a non-zero (valid) seed to the primary kernel).
> 
> Now the primary kernel reads the 'kaslr-seed' and wipes it to 0 and
> uses the seed value to randomize for e.g. the module base address
> offset.
> 
> In the case of 'kexec_load' (or even kdump for brevity),
> we rely on the user-space kexec-tools to pass an appropriate dtb to the
> secondary kernel and since 'kaslr-seed' is wiped to 0 by the primary
> kernel, the secondary will essentially work with *nokaslr* as
> 'kaslr-seed' is set to 0 when it is passed to the secondary kernel.
> 
> This can be true even in case the secondary kernel had
> 'CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE' and 'CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MODULE_REGION_FULL' set to
> y.
> 
> This patch addresses this issue by first checking if the device tree
> provided by the firmware to the kernel supports the 'kaslr-seed'
> property and verifies that it is really wiped to 0. If this condition is
> met, it fixes up the 'kaslr-seed' property by using the getrandom()
> syscall to get a suitable random number.
> 
> I verified this patch on my Qualcomm arm64 board and here are some test
> results:
> 
> 1. Ensure that the primary kernel is boot'ed with 'kaslr-seed'
>    dts property and it is really wiped to 0:
> 
>    [root at qualcomm-amberwing]# dtc -I dtb -O dts /sys/firmware/fdt | grep -A 10 -i chosen
>    	chosen {
> 		kaslr-seed = <0x0 0x0>;
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> 2. Now issue 'kexec_load' to load the secondary kernel (let's assume
>    that we are using the same kernel as the secondary kernel):
>    # kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname
>      -r`.img --reuse-cmdline -d
> 
> 3. Issue 'kexec -e' to warm boot to the secondary:
>    # kexec -e
> 
> 4. Now after the secondary boots, confirm that the load address of the
>    modules is randomized in every successive boot:
> 
>    [root at qualcomm-amberwing]# cat /proc/modules
>    sunrpc 524288 1 - Live 0xffff0307db190000
>    vfat 262144 1 - Live 0xffff0307db110000
>    fat 262144 1 vfat, Live 0xffff0307db090000
>    crc32_ce 262144 0 - Live 0xffff0307d8c70000
>    ...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma at redhat.com>
> ---
>  kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c | 135 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c
> index 62f37585b788..2ab11227447a 100644
> --- a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c
> +++ b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c
> @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
>  #include <linux/elf-em.h>
>  #include <elf.h>
>  
> +#include <unistd.h>
> +#include <syscall.h>
> +#include <errno.h>
> +#include <linux/random.h>
> +
>  #include "kexec.h"
>  #include "kexec-arm64.h"
>  #include "crashdump.h"
> @@ -392,11 +397,13 @@ static int fdt_setprop_range(void *fdt, int nodeoffset,
>  static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb, char *command_line, int on_crash)
>  {
>  	uint32_t address_cells, size_cells;
> -	int range_len;
> -	int nodeoffset;
> +	uint64_t fdt_val64;
> +	uint64_t *prop;
>  	char *new_buf = NULL;
> +	int len, range_len;
> +	int nodeoffset;
>  	int new_size;
> -	int result;
> +	int result, kaslr_seed;
>  
>  	result = fdt_check_header(dtb->buf);
>  
> @@ -407,47 +414,99 @@ static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb, char *command_line, int on_crash)
>  
>  	result = set_bootargs(dtb, command_line);
>  
> -	if (on_crash) {
> -		/* determine #address-cells and #size-cells */
> -		result = get_cells_size(dtb->buf, &address_cells, &size_cells);
> -		if (result) {
> -			fprintf(stderr,
> -				"kexec: cannot determine cells-size.\n");
> -			result = -EINVAL;
> -			goto on_error;
> -		}
> +	/* determine #address-cells and #size-cells */
> +	result = get_cells_size(dtb->buf, &address_cells, &size_cells);
> +	if (result) {
> +		fprintf(stderr, "kexec: cannot determine cells-size.\n");
> +		result = -EINVAL;
> +		goto on_error;
> +	}
>  
> -		if (!cells_size_fitted(address_cells, size_cells,
> -					&elfcorehdr_mem)) {
> -			fprintf(stderr,
> -				"kexec: elfcorehdr doesn't fit cells-size.\n");
> +	if (!cells_size_fitted(address_cells, size_cells,
> +				&elfcorehdr_mem)) {
> +		fprintf(stderr, "kexec: elfcorehdr doesn't fit cells-size.\n");
> +		result = -EINVAL;
> +		goto on_error;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!cells_size_fitted(address_cells, size_cells,
> +				&crash_reserved_mem)) {
> +		fprintf(stderr, "kexec: usable memory range doesn't fit cells-size.\n");
> +		result = -EINVAL;
> +		goto on_error;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* duplicate dt blob */
> +	range_len = sizeof(uint32_t) * (address_cells + size_cells);
> +	new_size = fdt_totalsize(dtb->buf)
> +		+ fdt_prop_len(PROP_ELFCOREHDR, range_len)
> +		+ fdt_prop_len(PROP_USABLE_MEM_RANGE, range_len);
> +
> +	new_buf = xmalloc(new_size);
> +	result = fdt_open_into(dtb->buf, new_buf, new_size);
> +	if (result) {
> +		dbgprintf("%s: fdt_open_into failed: %s\n", __func__,
> +				fdt_strerror(result));
> +		result = -ENOSPC;
> +		goto on_error;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* fixup 'kaslr-seed' with a random value, if supported */
> +	nodeoffset = fdt_path_offset(new_buf, "/chosen");
> +	prop = fdt_getprop_w(new_buf, nodeoffset,
> +			"kaslr-seed", &len);
> +	if (!prop || len != sizeof(uint64_t)) {

Do we need this check?
Please note that people are allowed to provide a dtb explicitly
at command line and may want to use kexec as bootloader on
no-uefi platform.

> +		dbgprintf("%s: no kaslr-seed found: %s\n",
> +				__func__, fdt_strerror(result));
> +		/* for kexec warm reboot case, we don't need to fixup
> +		 * other dtb properties
> +		 */
> +		if (!on_crash)
> +			goto free_new_buf;
> +
> +	} else {
> +		kaslr_seed = fdt64_to_cpu(*prop);
> +
> +		/* kaslr_seed must be wiped clean by primary
> +		 * kernel during boot
> +		 */
> +		if (kaslr_seed != 0) {
> +			dbgprintf("%s: kaslr-seed is not wiped to 0.\n",
> +					__func__);

Ditto
If this is a user-provided dtb, there is no reason to reject it.
I think all what is needed here is to feed a *sane* dtb to kexec.

So along with the comment above, it may be useful to add a command line
option for turning on or off "kaslr-seed".

>  			result = -EINVAL;
>  			goto on_error;
>  		}
>  
> -		if (!cells_size_fitted(address_cells, size_cells,
> -					&crash_reserved_mem)) {
> -			fprintf(stderr,
> -				"kexec: usable memory range doesn't fit cells-size.\n");
> +		/*
> +		 * Invoke the getrandom system call with
> +		 * GRND_NONBLOCK, to make sure we
> +		 * have a valid random seed to pass to the
> +		 * secondary kernel.
> +		 */
> +		result = syscall(SYS_getrandom, &fdt_val64,
> +				sizeof(fdt_val64),
> +				GRND_NONBLOCK);

Why do you use syscall() here?

> +
> +		if(result == -1) {
> +			dbgprintf("%s: Reading random bytes failed.\n",
> +					__func__);
>  			result = -EINVAL;
>  			goto on_error;
>  		}
>  
> -		/* duplicate dt blob */
> -		range_len = sizeof(uint32_t) * (address_cells + size_cells);
> -		new_size = fdt_totalsize(dtb->buf)
> -			+ fdt_prop_len(PROP_ELFCOREHDR, range_len)
> -			+ fdt_prop_len(PROP_USABLE_MEM_RANGE, range_len);
> -
> -		new_buf = xmalloc(new_size);
> -		result = fdt_open_into(dtb->buf, new_buf, new_size);
> +		nodeoffset = fdt_path_offset(new_buf, "/chosen");
> +		result = fdt_setprop_inplace(new_buf,
> +				nodeoffset, "kaslr-seed",
> +				&fdt_val64, sizeof(fdt_val64));
>  		if (result) {
> -			dbgprintf("%s: fdt_open_into failed: %s\n", __func__,
> -				fdt_strerror(result));
> -			result = -ENOSPC;
> +			dbgprintf("%s: fdt_setprop failed: %s\n",
> +					__func__, fdt_strerror(result));
> +			result = -EINVAL;
>  			goto on_error;
>  		}
> +	}
>  
> +	if (on_crash) {
>  		/* add linux,elfcorehdr */
>  		nodeoffset = fdt_path_offset(new_buf, "/chosen");
>  		result = fdt_setprop_range(new_buf, nodeoffset,
> @@ -455,7 +514,7 @@ static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb, char *command_line, int on_crash)
>  				address_cells, size_cells);
>  		if (result) {
>  			dbgprintf("%s: fdt_setprop failed: %s\n", __func__,
> -				fdt_strerror(result));
> +					fdt_strerror(result));
>  			result = -EINVAL;
>  			goto on_error;
>  		}
> @@ -467,23 +526,23 @@ static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb, char *command_line, int on_crash)
>  				address_cells, size_cells);
>  		if (result) {
>  			dbgprintf("%s: fdt_setprop failed: %s\n", __func__,
> -				fdt_strerror(result));
> +					fdt_strerror(result));
>  			result = -EINVAL;
>  			goto on_error;
>  		}
> -
> -		fdt_pack(new_buf);
> -		dtb->buf = new_buf;
> -		dtb->size = fdt_totalsize(new_buf);
>  	}
>  
> -	dump_reservemap(dtb);
> +	fdt_pack(new_buf);
> +	dtb->buf = new_buf;
> +	dtb->size = fdt_totalsize(new_buf);
>  
> +	dump_reservemap(dtb);
>  
>  	return result;
>  
>  on_error:
>  	fprintf(stderr, "kexec: %s failed.\n", __func__);
> +free_new_buf:

Well, technically correct, but it looks odd as it is placed
on *error* return path.
You also miss dump_reservemap().

Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI

>  	if (new_buf)
>  		free(new_buf);
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 



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