[PATCH v5] mm,kfence: decouple kfence from page granularity mapping judgement

Zhenhua Huang quic_zhenhuah at quicinc.com
Mon Mar 13 02:05:19 PDT 2023


Thanks Marco!

On 2023/3/13 15:50, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 06:04, Zhenhua Huang <quic_zhenhuah at quicinc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Kfence only needs its pool to be mapped as page granularity, previous
>> judgement was a bit over protected. From [1], Mark suggested to "just
>> map the KFENCE region a page granularity". So I decouple it from judgement
>> and do page granularity mapping for kfence pool only.
>>
>> Page granularity mapping in theory cost more(2M per 1GB) memory on arm64
>> platform. Like what I've tested on QEMU(emulated 1GB RAM) with
>> gki_defconfig, also turning off rodata protection:
>> Before:
>> [root at liebao ]# cat /proc/meminfo
>> MemTotal:         999484 kB
>> After:
>> [root at liebao ]# cat /proc/meminfo
>> MemTotal:        1001480 kB
>>
>> To implement this, also relocate the kfence pool allocation before the
>> linear mapping setting up, arm64_kfence_alloc_pool is to allocate phys
>> addr, __kfence_pool is to be set after linear mapping set up.
> 
> This patch still breaks the late-init capabilities that Kefeng pointed out.
> 
> I think the only viable option is:
> 
>   1. If KFENCE early init is requested on arm64, do what you're doing here.
> 
>   2. If KFENCE is compiled in, but not enabled, do what was done
> before, so it can be enabled late.

I'm fine with above solution as well. The Disadvantage is if we want to 
dynamically disable kfence through kfence_sample_interval, it must be 
mapped into page granularity still.

> 
> Am I missing an option?
> 

Another option is what Kefeng firstly thought and I had proposed on 
comments of patchsetV3, actually I wanted to do in an separate patch:

"
So how about we raise another change, like you mentioned bootargs 
indicating to use late init of b33f778bba5e ("kfence: alloc kfence_pool 
after system startup").
1. in arm64_kfence_alloc_pool():
    if (!kfence_sample_interval && !using_late_init)
              return 0;
    else
              allocate pool
2. also do the check in late allocation,like
    if (do_allocation_late && !using_late_init)
              BUG();
"
The thought is to allocate pool early as well if we need to 
using_late_init.

Kefeng, Marco,

How's your idea?

>>
>> LINK: [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Y+IsdrvDNILA59UN@FVFF77S0Q05N/
>> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Huang <quic_zhenhuah at quicinc.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c      | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c |  5 ++---
>>   include/linux/kfence.h   |  8 ++++++++
>>   mm/kfence/core.c         |  9 +++++++++
>>   4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>> index 6f9d889..ca5c932 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>>   #include <linux/mm.h>
>>   #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>>   #include <linux/set_memory.h>
>> +#include <linux/kfence.h>
>>
>>   #include <asm/barrier.h>
>>   #include <asm/cputype.h>
>> @@ -525,6 +526,31 @@ static int __init enable_crash_mem_map(char *arg)
>>   }
>>   early_param("crashkernel", enable_crash_mem_map);
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KFENCE
>> +
>> +static phys_addr_t arm64_kfence_alloc_pool(void)
>> +{
>> +       phys_addr_t kfence_pool;
>> +
>> +       if (!kfence_sample_interval)
>> +               return 0;
>> +
>> +       kfence_pool = memblock_phys_alloc(KFENCE_POOL_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
>> +       if (!kfence_pool)
>> +               pr_err("failed to allocate kfence pool\n");
>> +
>> +       return kfence_pool;
>> +}
>> +
>> +#else
>> +
>> +static phys_addr_t arm64_kfence_alloc_pool(void)
>> +{
>> +       return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +#endif
>> +
>>   static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
>>   {
>>          static const u64 direct_map_end = _PAGE_END(VA_BITS_MIN);
>> @@ -532,6 +558,7 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
>>          phys_addr_t kernel_end = __pa_symbol(__init_begin);
>>          phys_addr_t start, end;
>>          int flags = NO_EXEC_MAPPINGS;
>> +       phys_addr_t kfence_pool;
>>          u64 i;
>>
>>          /*
>> @@ -564,6 +591,10 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
>>          }
>>   #endif
>>
>> +       kfence_pool = arm64_kfence_alloc_pool();
>> +       if (kfence_pool)
>> +               memblock_mark_nomap(kfence_pool, KFENCE_POOL_SIZE);
>> +
>>          /* map all the memory banks */
>>          for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
>>                  if (start >= end)
>> @@ -608,6 +639,17 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
>>                  }
>>          }
>>   #endif
>> +
>> +       /* Kfence pool needs page-level mapping */
>> +       if (kfence_pool) {
>> +               __map_memblock(pgdp, kfence_pool,
>> +                       kfence_pool + KFENCE_POOL_SIZE,
>> +                       pgprot_tagged(PAGE_KERNEL),
>> +                       NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
>> +               memblock_clear_nomap(kfence_pool, KFENCE_POOL_SIZE);
>> +               /* kfence_pool really mapped now */
>> +               kfence_set_pool(kfence_pool);
>> +       }
>>   }
>>
>>   void mark_rodata_ro(void)
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
>> index 79dd201..61156d0 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
>> @@ -22,12 +22,11 @@ bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
>>   bool can_set_direct_map(void)
>>   {
>>          /*
>> -        * rodata_full, DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and KFENCE require linear map to be
>> +        * rodata_full and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC require linear map to be
>>           * mapped at page granularity, so that it is possible to
>>           * protect/unprotect single pages.
>>           */
>> -       return (rodata_enabled && rodata_full) || debug_pagealloc_enabled() ||
>> -               IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE);
>> +       return (rodata_enabled && rodata_full) || debug_pagealloc_enabled();
>>   }
>>
>>   static int change_page_range(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, void *data)
>> diff --git a/include/linux/kfence.h b/include/linux/kfence.h
>> index 726857a..570d4e3 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/kfence.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/kfence.h
>> @@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ static __always_inline bool is_kfence_address(const void *addr)
>>   void __init kfence_alloc_pool(void);
>>
>>   /**
>> + * kfence_set_pool() - allows an arch to set the
>> + * KFENCE pool during early init
>> + */
>> +void __init kfence_set_pool(phys_addr_t addr);
>> +
>> +/**
>>    * kfence_init() - perform KFENCE initialization at boot time
>>    *
>>    * Requires that kfence_alloc_pool() was called before. This sets up the
>> @@ -222,8 +228,10 @@ bool __kfence_obj_info(struct kmem_obj_info *kpp, void *object, struct slab *sla
>>
>>   #else /* CONFIG_KFENCE */
>>
>> +#define KFENCE_POOL_SIZE 0
>>   static inline bool is_kfence_address(const void *addr) { return false; }
>>   static inline void kfence_alloc_pool(void) { }
>> +static inline void kfence_set_pool(phys_addr_t addr) { }
>>   static inline void kfence_init(void) { }
>>   static inline void kfence_shutdown_cache(struct kmem_cache *s) { }
>>   static inline void *kfence_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, gfp_t flags) { return NULL; }
>> diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
>> index 5349c37..0765395 100644
>> --- a/mm/kfence/core.c
>> +++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
>> @@ -814,12 +814,21 @@ void __init kfence_alloc_pool(void)
>>          if (!kfence_sample_interval)
>>                  return;
>>
>> +       /* if the pool has already been initialized by arch, skip the below */
>> +       if (__kfence_pool)
>> +               return;
>> +
>>          __kfence_pool = memblock_alloc(KFENCE_POOL_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
>>
>>          if (!__kfence_pool)
>>                  pr_err("failed to allocate pool\n");
>>   }
>>
>> +void __init kfence_set_pool(phys_addr_t addr)
>> +{
>> +       __kfence_pool = phys_to_virt(addr);
>> +}
>> +
>>   static void kfence_init_enable(void)
>>   {
>>          if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS))
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
> 



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