[PATCH 5/7] ARM: kexec: Make .text R/W in machine_kexec

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Wed Aug 6 12:32:42 PDT 2014


From: Nikolay Borisov <Nikolay.Borisov at arm.com>

With the introduction of Kees Cook's patch to make the kernel .text
read-only the existing method by which kexec works got broken since it
directly pokes some values in the template code, which resides in the
.text section.

The current patch changes the way those values are inserted so that poking
.text section occurs only in machine_kexec (e.g when we are about to nuke
the old kernel and are beyond the point of return). This allows to use
set_kernel_text_rw() to directly patch the values in the .text section.

I had already sent a patch which achieved this but it was significantly
more complicated, so this is a cleaner/straight-forward approach.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <Nikolay.Borisov at arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
[collapsed kexec_boot_atags (will.daecon)]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 8cf0996aa1a8..fe6f3860ea57 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ extern unsigned long kexec_boot_atags;
 
 static atomic_t waiting_for_crash_ipi;
 
+static unsigned long dt_mem;
 /*
  * Provide a dummy crash_notes definition while crash dump arrives to arm.
  * This prevents breakage of crash_notes attribute in kernel/ksysfs.c.
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
 			return err;
 
 		if (be32_to_cpu(header) == OF_DT_HEADER)
-			kexec_boot_atags = current_segment->mem;
+			dt_mem = current_segment->mem;
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -163,12 +164,13 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 	reboot_code_buffer = page_address(image->control_code_page);
 
 	/* Prepare parameters for reboot_code_buffer*/
+	set_kernel_text_rw();
 	kexec_start_address = image->start;
 	kexec_indirection_page = page_list;
 	kexec_mach_type = machine_arch_type;
-	if (!kexec_boot_atags)
-		kexec_boot_atags = image->start - KEXEC_ARM_ZIMAGE_OFFSET + KEXEC_ARM_ATAGS_OFFSET;
-
+	kexec_boot_atags = dt_mem ?: kexec_boot_atags = image->start
+				     - KEXEC_ARM_ZIMAGE_OFFSET
+				     + KEXEC_ARM_ATAGS_OFFSET;
 
 	/* copy our kernel relocation code to the control code page */
 	reboot_entry = fncpy(reboot_code_buffer,
-- 
1.9.1




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