[PATCH 3/6] arm64: kaslr: split kaslr/module initialization

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue May 9 04:14:48 PDT 2023


Currently kaslr_init() handles a mixture of detecting/announcing whether
KASLR is enabled, and randomizing the module region depening on whether
KASLR is enabled.

To make it easier to rework the module region initialization, split the
KASLR initialization into two steps:

* kaslr_init() determines whether KASLR should be enabled, and announces
  this choice, recoding this to a new global boolean variable. This is
  called from setup_arch() just before the existing call to
  kaslr_requires_kpti() so that this will always provide the expected
  result.

* kaslr_module_init() randomizes the module region when required. This
  is called as a syubsys_initcall, where we previosuly called
  kaslr_init().

As a bomus, moving the KASLR reporting earlier makes it easier to spot
and permits it to be logged via earlycon, making it easier to debug any
issues that could be triggerer by KASLR.

Booting a v6.4-rc1 kernel with this patch applied, the log looks like:

| EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
| EFI stub: Generating empty DTB
| EFI stub: Exiting boot services...
| [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x000f0510]
| [    0.000000] Linux version 6.4.0-rc1-00006-g4763a8f8aeb3 (mark at lakrids) (aarch64-linux-gcc (GCC) 12.1.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.38) #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue May  9 11:03:37 BST 2023
| [    0.000000] KASLR enabled
| [    0.000000] earlycon: pl11 at MMIO 0x0000000009000000 (options '')
| [    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [pl11] enabled

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 14 +++++++-----
 arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c       | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
 arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c       |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
index c735afdf639b1..215efc3bbbcf9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
@@ -204,15 +204,17 @@ static inline unsigned long kaslr_offset(void)
 	return kimage_vaddr - KIMAGE_VADDR;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
+void kaslr_init(void);
 static inline bool kaslr_enabled(void)
 {
-	/*
-	 * The KASLR offset modulo MIN_KIMG_ALIGN is taken from the physical
-	 * placement of the image rather than from the seed, so a displacement
-	 * of less than MIN_KIMG_ALIGN means that no seed was provided.
-	 */
-	return kaslr_offset() >= MIN_KIMG_ALIGN;
+	extern bool __kaslr_is_enabled;
+	return __kaslr_is_enabled;
 }
+#else
+static inline void kaslr_init(void) { }
+static inline bool kaslr_enabled(void) { return false; }
+#endif
 
 /*
  * Allow all memory at the discovery stage. We will clip it later.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c
index df433c80c6efe..ce7079ba1dc1a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c
@@ -25,28 +25,39 @@ u16 __initdata memstart_offset_seed;
 
 struct arm64_ftr_override kaslr_feature_override __initdata;
 
-static int __init kaslr_init(void)
-{
-	u64 module_range;
-	u32 seed;
-
-	/*
-	 * Set a reasonable default for module_alloc_base in case
-	 * we end up running with module randomization disabled.
-	 */
-	module_alloc_base = (u64)_etext - MODULES_VSIZE;
+bool __ro_after_init __kaslr_is_enabled = false;
 
+void __init kaslr_init(void)
+{
 	if (kaslr_feature_override.val & kaslr_feature_override.mask & 0xf) {
 		pr_info("KASLR disabled on command line\n");
-		return 0;
+		return;
 	}
 
-	if (!kaslr_enabled()) {
+	/*
+	 * The KASLR offset modulo MIN_KIMG_ALIGN is taken from the physical
+	 * placement of the image rather than from the seed, so a displacement
+	 * of less than MIN_KIMG_ALIGN means that no seed was provided.
+	 */
+	if (kaslr_offset() < MIN_KIMG_ALIGN) {
 		pr_warn("KASLR disabled due to lack of seed\n");
-		return 0;
+		return;
 	}
 
 	pr_info("KASLR enabled\n");
+	__kaslr_is_enabled = true;
+}
+
+int kaslr_module_init(void)
+{
+	u64 module_range;
+	u32 seed;
+
+	/*
+	 * Set a reasonable default for module_alloc_base in case
+	 * we end up running with module randomization disabled.
+	 */
+	module_alloc_base = (u64)_etext - MODULES_VSIZE;
 
 	seed = get_random_u32();
 
@@ -80,4 +91,4 @@ static int __init kaslr_init(void)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-subsys_initcall(kaslr_init)
+subsys_initcall(kaslr_module_init)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
index b8ec7b3ac9cbe..417a8a86b2db5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -296,6 +296,8 @@ void __init __no_sanitize_address setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 
 	*cmdline_p = boot_command_line;
 
+	kaslr_init();
+
 	/*
 	 * If know now we are going to need KPTI then use non-global
 	 * mappings from the start, avoiding the cost of rewriting
-- 
2.30.2




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