[PATCH] arm64: kexec: load from kimage prior to clobbering
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue May 17 03:39:32 PDT 2022
On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 05:07:35PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> In arm64_relocate_new_kernel() we load some fields out of the kimage
> structure after relocation has occurred. As the kimage structure isn't
> allocate to be relocation-safe, it may be clobbered during relocation,
^^^^^^^^
Whoops, that should be s/allocate/allocated/
I'm hoping that can be fixed when applying?
Thanks,
Mark.
> and we may load junk values out of the structure.
>
> Due to this, kexec may fail when the kimage allocation happens to fall
> within a PA range that an object will be relocated to. This has been
> observed to occur for regular kexec on a QEMU TCG 'virt' machine with
> 2GiB of RAM, where the PA range of the new kernel image overlaps the
> kimage structure.
>
> Avoid this by ensuring we load all values from the kimage structure
> prior to relocation.
>
> I've tested this atop v5.16 and v5.18-rc6.
>
> Fixes: 878fdbd704864352 ("arm64: kexec: pass kimage as the only argument to relocation function")
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin at soleen.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/relocate_kernel.S | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/relocate_kernel.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/relocate_kernel.S
> index f0a3df9e18a32..413f899e4ac63 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/relocate_kernel.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/relocate_kernel.S
> @@ -37,6 +37,15 @@
> * safe memory that has been set up to be preserved during the copy operation.
> */
> SYM_CODE_START(arm64_relocate_new_kernel)
> + /*
> + * The kimage structure isn't allocated specially and may be clobbered
> + * during relocation. We must load any values we need from it prior to
> + * any relocation occurring.
> + */
> + ldr x28, [x0, #KIMAGE_START]
> + ldr x27, [x0, #KIMAGE_ARCH_EL2_VECTORS]
> + ldr x26, [x0, #KIMAGE_ARCH_DTB_MEM]
> +
> /* Setup the list loop variables. */
> ldr x18, [x0, #KIMAGE_ARCH_ZERO_PAGE] /* x18 = zero page for BBM */
> ldr x17, [x0, #KIMAGE_ARCH_TTBR1] /* x17 = linear map copy */
> @@ -72,21 +81,20 @@ SYM_CODE_START(arm64_relocate_new_kernel)
> ic iallu
> dsb nsh
> isb
> - ldr x4, [x0, #KIMAGE_START] /* relocation start */
> - ldr x1, [x0, #KIMAGE_ARCH_EL2_VECTORS] /* relocation start */
> - ldr x0, [x0, #KIMAGE_ARCH_DTB_MEM] /* dtb address */
> turn_off_mmu x12, x13
>
> /* Start new image. */
> - cbz x1, .Lel1
> - mov x1, x4 /* relocation start */
> - mov x2, x0 /* dtb address */
> + cbz x27, .Lel1
> + mov x1, x28 /* kernel entry point */
> + mov x2, x26 /* dtb address */
> mov x3, xzr
> mov x4, xzr
> mov x0, #HVC_SOFT_RESTART
> hvc #0 /* Jumps from el2 */
> .Lel1:
> + mov x0, x26 /* dtb address */
> + mov x1, xzr
> mov x2, xzr
> mov x3, xzr
> - br x4 /* Jumps from el1 */
> + br x28 /* Jumps from el1 */
> SYM_CODE_END(arm64_relocate_new_kernel)
> --
> 2.30.2
>
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