[PATCH] riscv: Fixup bootup failure with HARDENED_USERCOPY
Atish Patra
atishp at atishpatra.org
Wed Oct 7 03:12:10 EDT 2020
On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:12 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:49:33 PDT (-0700), guoren at kernel.org wrote:
> > From: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
> >
> > As Aurelien has reported:
> >
> > [ 3.484586] AppArmor: AppArmor sha1 policy hashing enabled
> > [ 4.749835] Freeing unused kernel memory: 492K
> > [ 4.752017] Run /init as init process
> > [ 4.753571] usercopy: Kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to kernel text (offset 507879, size 11)!
> > [ 4.754838] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [ 4.755651] kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:99!
> > [ 4.756445] Kernel BUG [#1]
> > [ 4.756815] Modules linked in:
> > [ 4.757542] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.8.0-1-riscv64 #1 Debian 5.8.7-1
> > [ 4.758372] epc: ffffffe0003b5120 ra : ffffffe0003b5120 sp : ffffffe07f783ca0
> > [ 4.758960] gp : ffffffe000cc7230 tp : ffffffe07f77cec0 t0 : ffffffe000cdafc0
> > [ 4.759772] t1 : 0000000000000064 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffe07f783cf0
> > [ 4.760534] s1 : ffffffe00095d780 a0 : 000000000000005b a1 : 0000000000000020
> > [ 4.761309] a2 : 0000000000000005 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : ffffffe000c1f340
> > [ 4.761848] a5 : ffffffe000c1f340 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000000000087
> > [ 4.762684] s2 : ffffffe000941848 s3 : 000000000007bfe7 s4 : 000000000000000b
> > [ 4.763500] s5 : 0000000000000000 s6 : ffffffe00091cc00 s7 : fffffffffffff000
> > [ 4.764376] s8 : 0000003ffffff000 s9 : ffffffe0769f3200 s10: 000000000000000b
> > [ 4.765208] s11: ffffffe07d548c40 t3 : 0000000000000000 t4 : 000000000001dcd0
> > [ 4.766059] t5 : ffffffe000cc8510 t6 : ffffffe000cd64aa
> > [ 4.766712] status: 0000000000000120 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000003
> > [ 4.768308] ---[ end trace 1f8e733e834d4c3e ]---
> > [ 4.769129] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
> > [ 4.770070] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> > [ 4.771110] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b ]---
> >
> > Above failure is relate to commit: a0fa4027dc911 (riscv: Fixup
>
> That commit isn't in Linus' tree (at least, as far as I see it). I have
> 6184358da000 ("riscv: Fixup static_obj() fail"), so I'm going to fix that -- in
> fact, I'm going to essentially just replace most of this rationale with what I
> wrote up in my revert as this is all a bit too long for a commit message.
>
> I was kind of worried the initdata move was a bit too risky, but after reading
> the users of __init_{begin,end} I think it's safe. Here's what I ended up with
> on fixes.
>
> Thanks!
>
> commit 84814460eef9af0fb56a4698341c9cb7996a6312 (HEAD -> fixes, riscv/fixes)
> gpg: Signature made Tue 06 Oct 2020 09:11:35 PM PDT
> gpg: using RSA key 2B3C3747446843B24A943A7A2E1319F35FBB1889
> gpg: issuer "palmer at dabbelt.com"
> gpg: Good signature from "Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com>" [ultimate]
> gpg: aka "Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>" [ultimate]
> Author: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
> Date: Tue Oct 6 16:49:33 2020 +0000
>
> riscv: Fixup bootup failure with HARDENED_USERCOPY
>
> 6184358da000 ("riscv: Fixup static_obj() fail") attempted to elide a lockdep
> failure by rearranging our kernel image to place all initdata within [_stext,
> _end], thus triggering lockdep to treat these as static objects. These objects
> are released and eventually reallocated, causing check_kernel_text_object() to
> trigger a BUG().
>
> This backs out the change to make [_stext, _end] all-encompassing, instead just
> moving initdata. This results in initdata being outside of [__init_begin,
> __init_end], which means initdata can't be freed.
>
But we are not moving all initdata out of __init_begin/end. Should we
move all the _initdata section out of _init_begin ?
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-riscv/2020-October/002400.html
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/1593266228-61125-1-git-send-email-guoren@kernel.org/T/#t
> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
> Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>
> Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>
> [Palmer: Clean up commit text]
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>
>
> > static_obj() fail). When we expand static_obj include INIT_DATA,
> > we also include INIT_TEXT into usercopy check kernel text:
> >
> > /* Is this address range in the kernel text area? */
> > static inline void check_kernel_text_object(const unsigned long ptr,
> > unsigned long n, bool to_user)
> > {
> > unsigned long textlow = (unsigned long)_stext;
> > unsigned long texthigh = (unsigned long)_etext;
> > unsigned long textlow_linear, texthigh_linear;
> >
> > if (overlaps(ptr, n, textlow, texthigh))
> > usercopy_abort("kernel text", NULL, to_user, ptr - textlow, n);
> >
> > When INIT_TEXT/DATA are freed, new allocation will reuse these
> > memory and overlaps check will be triggered.
> >
> > The patch met static_obj and check_kernel_text_object requirements.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/1593266228-61125-1-git-send-email-guoren@kernel.org/T/#t
> > Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
> > Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>
> > Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>
> > Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>
> > Cc: Atish Patra <atishp at atishpatra.org>
> > Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k.org>
> > ---
> > arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 +++--
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > index f3586e3..34d00d9 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > @@ -22,13 +22,11 @@ SECTIONS
> > /* Beginning of code and text segment */
> > . = LOAD_OFFSET;
> > _start = .;
> > - _stext = .;
> > HEAD_TEXT_SECTION
> > . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
> >
> > __init_begin = .;
> > INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
> > - INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
> > . = ALIGN(8);
> > __soc_early_init_table : {
> > __soc_early_init_table_start = .;
> > @@ -55,6 +53,7 @@ SECTIONS
> > . = ALIGN(SECTION_ALIGN);
> > .text : {
> > _text = .;
> > + _stext = .;
> > TEXT_TEXT
> > SCHED_TEXT
> > CPUIDLE_TEXT
> > @@ -67,6 +66,8 @@ SECTIONS
> > _etext = .;
> > }
> >
> > + INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
> > +
> > /* Start of data section */
> > _sdata = .;
> > RO_DATA(SECTION_ALIGN)
--
Regards,
Atish
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