[PATCH] mm, kasan: don't poison boot memory

George Kennedy george.kennedy at oracle.com
Wed Feb 24 09:22:59 EST 2021



On 2/24/2021 5:37 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 04:46:28PM -0500, George Kennedy wrote:
>> Mike,
>>
>> Still no luck.
>>
>> [   30.193723] iscsi: registered transport (iser)
>> [   30.195970] iBFT detected.
>> [   30.196571] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffff240004
> Hmm, we cannot set ibft_addr to early pointer to the ACPI table.
> Let's try something more disruptive and move the reservation back to
> iscsi_ibft_find.c.
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
> index 7bdc0239a943..c118dd54a747 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
> @@ -1551,6 +1551,7 @@ void __init acpi_boot_table_init(void)
>   	if (acpi_disabled)
>   		return;
>   
> +#if 0
>   	/*
>   	 * Initialize the ACPI boot-time table parser.
>   	 */
> @@ -1558,6 +1559,7 @@ void __init acpi_boot_table_init(void)
>   		disable_acpi();
>   		return;
>   	}
> +#endif
>   
>   	acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_BOOT, acpi_parse_sbf);
>   
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> index d883176ef2ce..c615ce96c9a2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -570,16 +570,6 @@ void __init reserve_standard_io_resources(void)
>   
>   }
>   
> -static __init void reserve_ibft_region(void)
> -{
> -	unsigned long addr, size = 0;
> -
> -	addr = find_ibft_region(&size);
> -
> -	if (size)
> -		memblock_reserve(addr, size);
> -}
> -
>   static bool __init snb_gfx_workaround_needed(void)
>   {
>   #ifdef CONFIG_PCI
> @@ -1032,6 +1022,12 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>   	 */
>   	find_smp_config();
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * Initialize the ACPI boot-time table parser.
> +	 */
> +	if (acpi_table_init())
> +		disable_acpi();
> +
>   	reserve_ibft_region();
>   
>   	early_alloc_pgt_buf();
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c b/drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c
> index 64bb94523281..01be513843d6 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,25 @@ static const struct {
>   #define VGA_MEM 0xA0000 /* VGA buffer */
>   #define VGA_SIZE 0x20000 /* 128kB */
>   
> -static int __init find_ibft_in_mem(void)
> +static void __init *acpi_find_ibft_region(void)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +	struct acpi_table_header *table = NULL;
> +	acpi_status status;
> +
> +	if (acpi_disabled)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ibft_signs) && !ibft_addr; i++) {
> +		status = acpi_get_table(ibft_signs[i].sign, 0, &table);
> +		if (ACPI_SUCCESS(status))
> +			return table;
> +	}
> +
> +	return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static void __init *find_ibft_in_mem(void)
>   {
>   	unsigned long pos;
>   	unsigned int len = 0;
> @@ -70,35 +88,44 @@ static int __init find_ibft_in_mem(void)
>   				/* if the length of the table extends past 1M,
>   				 * the table cannot be valid. */
>   				if (pos + len <= (IBFT_END-1)) {
> -					ibft_addr = (struct acpi_table_ibft *)virt;
>   					pr_info("iBFT found at 0x%lx.\n", pos);
> -					goto done;
> +					return virt;
>   				}
>   			}
>   		}
>   	}
> -done:
> -	return len;
> +
> +	return NULL;
>   }
> +
> +static void __init *find_ibft(void)
> +{
> +	/* iBFT 1.03 section 1.4.3.1 mandates that UEFI machines will
> +	 * only use ACPI for this */
> +	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
> +		return find_ibft_in_mem();
> +	else
> +		return acpi_find_ibft_region();
> +}
> +
>   /*
>    * Routine used to find the iSCSI Boot Format Table. The logical
>    * kernel address is set in the ibft_addr global variable.
>    */
> -unsigned long __init find_ibft_region(unsigned long *sizep)
> +void __init reserve_ibft_region(void)
>   {
> -	ibft_addr = NULL;
> +	struct acpi_table_ibft *table;
> +	unsigned long size;
>   
> -	/* iBFT 1.03 section 1.4.3.1 mandates that UEFI machines will
> -	 * only use ACPI for this */
> +	table = find_ibft();
> +	if (!table)
> +		return;
>   
> -	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
> -		find_ibft_in_mem();
> -
> -	if (ibft_addr) {
> -		*sizep = PAGE_ALIGN(ibft_addr->header.length);
> -		return (u64)virt_to_phys(ibft_addr);
> -	}
> +	size = PAGE_ALIGN(table->header.length);
> +	memblock_reserve(virt_to_phys(table), size);
>   
> -	*sizep = 0;
> -	return 0;
> +	if (efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
> +		acpi_put_table(&table->header);
> +	else
> +		ibft_addr = table;
>   }
> diff --git a/include/linux/iscsi_ibft.h b/include/linux/iscsi_ibft.h
> index b7b45ca82bea..da813c891990 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iscsi_ibft.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iscsi_ibft.h
> @@ -26,13 +26,9 @@ extern struct acpi_table_ibft *ibft_addr;
>    * mapped address is set in the ibft_addr variable.
>    */
>   #ifdef CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT_FIND
> -unsigned long find_ibft_region(unsigned long *sizep);
> +void reserve_ibft_region(void);
>   #else
> -static inline unsigned long find_ibft_region(unsigned long *sizep)
> -{
> -	*sizep = 0;
> -	return 0;
> -}
> +static inline void reserve_ibft_region(void) {}
>   #endif
>   
>   #endif /* ISCSI_IBFT_H */

Still no luck Mike,

We're back to the original problem where the only thing that worked was 
to run "SetPageReserved(page)" before calling "kmap(page)". The page is 
being "freed" before ibft_init() is called as a result of the recent 
buddy page freeing changes.

[   30.385207] iscsi: registered transport (iser)
[   30.387462] iBFT detected.
[   30.388042] 
==================================================================
[   30.388119] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ibft_init+0x134/0xc33
[   30.388119] Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880be453004 by task swapper/0/1
[   30.388119]
[   30.388119] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.11.0-f9593a0 #11
[   30.388119] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), 
BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
[   30.388119] Call Trace:
[   30.388119]  dump_stack+0xdb/0x120
[   30.388119]  ? ibft_init+0x134/0xc33
[   30.388119]  print_address_description.constprop.7+0x41/0x60
[   30.388119]  ? ibft_init+0x134/0xc33
[   30.388119]  ? ibft_init+0x134/0xc33
[   30.388119]  kasan_report.cold.10+0x78/0xd1
[   30.388119]  ? ibft_init+0x134/0xc33
[   30.388119]  __asan_report_load_n_noabort+0xf/0x20
[   30.388119]  ibft_init+0x134/0xc33
[   30.388119]  ? write_comp_data+0x2f/0x90
[   30.388119]  ? ibft_check_initiator_for+0x159/0x159
[   30.388119]  ? write_comp_data+0x2f/0x90
[   30.388119]  ? ibft_check_initiator_for+0x159/0x159
[   30.388119]  do_one_initcall+0xc4/0x3e0
[   30.388119]  ? perf_trace_initcall_level+0x3e0/0x3e0
[   30.388119]  ? unpoison_range+0x14/0x40
[   30.388119]  ? ____kasan_kmalloc.constprop.5+0x8f/0xc0
[   30.388119]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x420/0x652

George

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