Question about Address Range Validation in Crash Kernel Allocation

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Fri Mar 22 00:18:13 PDT 2024


On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 at 20:37, Li Huafei <lihuafei1 at huawei.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 2024/3/21 18:06, Dave Young wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 at 17:49, Li Huafei <lihuafei1 at huawei.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Baoquan,
> >>
> >> On 2024/3/21 17:17, chenhaixiang (A) wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> I'm sorry for the delay. Here are some details from the boot log and
> >>>> /proc/iomem:
> >>>>> The Boot log:
> >>>>> [    0.000000] Linux version 6.8.0 (root at localhost.localdomain) (gcc (GCC)
> >>>> 10.3.1, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.37) #3 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Mar 20
> >>>> 11:46:11 UTC 2024
> >>>>> [    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.8.0
> >>>> root=/dev/mapper/root ro crashkernel=512M resume=/dev/mapper/swap
> >>>> rd.lvm.lv=root rd.lvm.lv=swap crash_kexec_post_notifiers softlockup_panic=1
> >>>> reserve_kbox_mem=16M fsck.mode=auto fsck.repair=yes panic=3
> >>>> nmi_watchdog=1 quiet rd.shell=0 memblock=debug efi=debug
> >>>> console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0
> >>>> ......snip...
> >>>>> [    0.022622] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 536870912 bytes align=0x1000000
> >>>> from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0000000100000000
> >>>> reserve_crashkernel_generic+0x7c/0x220
> >>>>> [    0.022628] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 536870912 bytes align=0x1000000
> >>>> from=0x0000000100000000 max_addr=0x0000400000000000
> >>>> reserve_crashkernel_generic+0x7c/0x220
> >>>>> [    0.022632] memblock_reserve: [0x000000c01f000000-0x000000c03effffff]
> >>>> memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xee/0x170
> >>>>> [    0.022634] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 268435456 bytes align=0x1000000
> >>>> from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0000000100000000
> >>>> reserve_crashkernel_generic+0x11d/0x220
> >>>>> [    0.022638] memblock_reserve: [0x0000000049000000-0x0000000058ffffff]
> >>>> memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xee/0x170
> >>>>> [    0.022640] crashkernel low memory reserved: 0x49000000 - 0x59000000
> >>>> (256 MB)
> >>>>> [    0.022641] crashkernel reserved: 0x000000c01f000000 -
> >>>> 0x000000c03f000000 (512 MB)
> >>>>
> >>>> Here, crashkernel,low is reserved in region:  [0x49000000 - 0x59000000] (256
> >>>> MB)
> >>>>       crashkernel,high is reserved in region: [0x000000c01f000000 -
> >>>> 0x000000c03f000000] (512 MB) ......
> >>>>> [    0.029839] memblock_reserve: [0x000000c03ffff740-0x000000c03fffff7f]
> >>>> memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xee/0x170
> >>>>> [    0.029843] e820: update [mem 0x53cbd000-0x53ccffff] usable ==>
> >>>> reserved
> >>>>> [    0.029861] TSC deadline timer available
> >>>>
> >>>> Then here, region [0x53cbd000-0x53ccffff] is reserved in e820, and print abvoe
> >>>> "usable ==> reserved". This should be the step which prevents earlier reserved
> >>>> crashkernel,low from being added to iomem tree. I am not sure what triggered
> >>>> the e820 update.
> >>
> >> We added dump_stack () printing in efi_mem_reserve () and found that
> >> [0x53cbd000-0x53ccffff] was reserved by BGRT:
> >>
> >>   [    0.032259] e820: update [mem 0x53cbd000-0x53ccffff] usable ==>
> >> reserved
> >>   [    0.032262] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted
> >> 5.10.0-60.18.0.50.h820.eulerosv2r11.x86_64 #7
> >>   [    0.032263] Hardware name: Huawei 2288H V5/BC11SPSCB0, BIOS 8.25
> >> 08/30/2022
> >>   [    0.032264] Call Trace:
> >>   [    0.032265]  ? dump_stack+0x57/0x6e
> >>   [    0.032267]  ? bgrt_init+0xc2/0xc2
> >>   [    0.032268]  ? __e820__range_update+0x7a/0x1d6
> >>   [    0.032270]  ? bgrt_init+0xc2/0xc2
> >>   [    0.032272]  ? bgrt_init+0xc2/0xc2
> >>   [    0.032274]  ? efi_arch_mem_reserve+0x1a3/0x1d0
> >>   [    0.032276]  ? efi_mem_reserve+0x2d/0x42
> >>   [    0.032278]  ? acpi_parse_bgrt+0xa/0x11
> >>   [    0.032279]  ? acpi_table_parse+0x86/0xbc
> >>   [    0.032281]  ? acpi_boot_init+0x79/0xad
> >>   [    0.032282]  ? setup_arch+0x835/0x954
> >>   [    0.032284]  ? start_kernel+0x5d/0x455
> >>   [    0.032286]  ? secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xc2/0xcb
> >>
> >> efi_reserve_boot_services() has reserved memory of type
> >> EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE & EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA  before crashkernel.
> >> efi_bgrt_init() assumes that EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA is not reserved by
> >> other modules. Then, the e820_table is directly updated, and the BGRT
> >> memory is reserved.
> >>
> >> However, memblock_is_region_reserved() in efi_reserve_boot_services()
> >> returns true when the ranges only overlap.
> >>
> >>      already_reserved = memblock_is_region_reserved(start, size);
> >
> > Do you mean efi_reserve_boot_services is supposed to reserve the bgrt
> > memory but it does not reserve it due to the region overlapping with
> > some other reserved region?  If so can you debug and find what exact
> > memblock reserved region overlaps with the bgrt?
>
> Yes. I added the following debug print to efi_reserve_boot_services():
>
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> @@ -339,6 +339,10 @@ void __init efi_reserve_boot_services(void)
>
>                 already_reserved = memblock_is_region_reserved(start, size);
>
> +               pr_info("kdumpdebug: efi_reserve_boot_services start 0x%lu, "
> +                       "size 0x%lx, type 0x%lx, already_reserved %d\n",
> +                       start, size, md->type, already_reserved);
> +
>                 /*
>                  * Because the following memblock_reserve() is paired
>                  * with memblock_free_late() for this region in
>
> This memory [0x0000005976a018-0x00000005976abc7] is reserved here, which belongs to EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA.
>     [    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x000000005976a018-0x000000005976abc7] efi_memattr_init+0x51/0xa0
> It falls in the following range
>     [    0.000000] efi: mem22: [Boot Data   |   |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000051329000-0x000000005cefefff] (187MB)
>
> in efi_reserve_boot_services(), [0x0000005132900-0x00000005cefeff] will not be fully reserved because [0x0000005976a018-0x0000005976abc7]
> has already been reserved and overlaps with [0x0000005976a018-0x0000005976abc7]

Ok, it looks to me it is like this:

efi_memattr_init() reserved the memattr table with memblock_reserve
efi_reserve_boot_services failed to reserve the boot data region which
includes the memattr table due to it has been revervely partially.

So this should be a UEFI issue revealed by the crashkernel resource
late intert commit.   I suspect the memblock_reserve in
efi_memattr_init can be just removed and leave to
efi_reserve_boot_services to do that.

Added Ard and efi list for opinion.


>
>     [    0.021316] efi: kdumpdebug: efi_reserve_boot_services start 0x51329000, size 0xbbd6000, type 0x4, already_reserved 1
>
> It is not reserved by memblock, this free memory region is allocated by crashkernel
>
>     [    0.022597] crashkernel low memory reserved: 0x49000000 - 0x59000000 (256 MB)
>     [    0.022599] crashkernel reserved: 0x000000c01f000000 - 0x000000c03f000000 (512 MB)
>
> In efi_bgrt_init (), it is assumed that the memory of the EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA type has been successfully
> reserved. Therefore, the address in the range is directly used. As a result, the memory overlaps with
> the crashkernel region.
>
>     [    0.029694] e820: update [mem 0x53cbd000-0x53ccffff] usable ==> reserved

Thanks
Dave




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