[PATCH] arm: mm: dump: don't skip final region

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Fri Dec 5 04:20:16 PST 2014


If the final page table entry we walk is a valid mapping, the page table
dumping code will not log the region this entry is part of, as the final
note_page call in walk_pgd will trigger an early return. Luckily this
isn't seen on contemporary systems as they typically don't have enough
RAM to extend the linear mapping right to the end of the address space.

In note_page, we log a region when we reach its end (i.e. we hit an
entry immediately afterwards which has different prot bits or is
invalid). The final entry has no subsequent entry, so we will not log
this immediately. We try to cater for this with a subsequent call to
note_page in ptdump_show, but this returns early as 0 is less than
USER_PGTABLES_CEILING, and hence we will skip a valid mapping if it
spans to the final entry we note.

Luckily, the final note_page call has level == 0, while all prior calls
have a non-zero level, so if we also check level we will both skip user
entries and handle the final note_page call correctly. Due to the way
addr is constructed in the walk_* functions, it can never be less than
LOWEST_ADDR when walking the page tables, so it is not necessary to
avoid dereferencing invalid table addresses. The existing checks for
st->current_prot and st->marker[1].start_address are sufficient to
ensure we will not print and/or dereference garbage when trying to log
information.

This patch adds the aformentioned check for level, ensuring we log all
regions in the kernel mappings, including those which span right to the
end of the address space.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper at linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/mm/dump.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

I found this via inspection, rather than being hit by the problem described
above, but it seemed worthwhile to fix this up (otherwise the final note_page
call is pointless).

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dump.c b/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
index 5942493..f459c0d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static void note_page(struct pg_state *st, unsigned long addr, unsigned level, u
 	static const char units[] = "KMGTPE";
 	u64 prot = val & pg_level[level].mask;
 
-	if (addr < USER_PGTABLES_CEILING)
+	if (level && addr < USER_PGTABLES_CEILING)
 		return;
 
 	if (!st->level) {
-- 
1.9.1




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list