[PATCH v34 06/14] arm64: kdump: protect crash dump kernel memory

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Thu Mar 30 02:56:27 PDT 2017


Ard,

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 28 March 2017 at 12:07, AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org> wrote:
> > Ard,
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:07:05AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> On 28 March 2017 at 07:51, AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org> wrote:
> >> > arch_kexec_protect_crashkres() and arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres()
> >> > are meant to be called by kexec_load() in order to protect the memory
> >> > allocated for crash dump kernel once the image is loaded.
> >> >
> >> > The protection is implemented by unmapping the relevant segments in crash
> >> > dump kernel memory, rather than making it read-only as other archs do,
> >> > to prevent any corruption due to potential cache alias (with different
> >> > attributes) problem.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I think it would be more accurate to replace 'corruption' with
> >> 'coherency issues', given that this patch does not solve the issue of
> >> writable aliases that may be used to modify the contents of the
> >> region, but it does prevent issues related to mismatched attributes
> >> (which are arguably a bigger concern)
> >
> > OK
> >
> >> > Page-level mappings are consistently used here so that we can change
> >> > the attributes of segments in page granularity as well as shrink the region
> >> > also in page granularity through /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size, putting
> >> > the freed memory back to buddy system.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> >>
> >> As a head's up, this patch is going to conflict heavily with patches
> >> that are queued up in arm64/for-next/core atm.
> >
> > I'll look into it later, but
> >
> >> Some questions below.
> >>
> >> > ---
> >> >  arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 32 +++++++++++---
> >> >  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c               | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> >> >  2 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> >> > index bc96c8a7fc79..b63baa749609 100644
> >> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> >> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> >> > @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@
> >> >
> >> >  #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> >> >  #include <asm/cpu_ops.h>
> >> > +#include <asm/mmu.h>
> >> >  #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
> >> > +#include <asm/page.h>
> >> >
> >> >  #include "cpu-reset.h"
> >> >
> >> > @@ -22,8 +24,6 @@
> >> >  extern const unsigned char arm64_relocate_new_kernel[];
> >> >  extern const unsigned long arm64_relocate_new_kernel_size;
> >> >
> >> > -static unsigned long kimage_start;
> >> > -
> >> >  /**
> >> >   * kexec_image_info - For debugging output.
> >> >   */
> >> > @@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ void machine_kexec_cleanup(struct kimage *kimage)
> >> >   */
> >> >  int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *kimage)
> >> >  {
> >> > -       kimage_start = kimage->start;
> >> > -
> >> >         kexec_image_info(kimage);
> >> >
> >> >         if (kimage->type != KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH && cpus_are_stuck_in_kernel()) {
> >> > @@ -183,7 +181,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *kimage)
> >> >         kexec_list_flush(kimage);
> >> >
> >> >         /* Flush the new image if already in place. */
> >> > -       if (kimage->head & IND_DONE)
> >> > +       if ((kimage != kexec_crash_image) && (kimage->head & IND_DONE))
> >> >                 kexec_segment_flush(kimage);
> >> >
> >> >         pr_info("Bye!\n");
> >> > @@ -201,7 +199,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *kimage)
> >> >          */
> >> >
> >> >         cpu_soft_restart(1, reboot_code_buffer_phys, kimage->head,
> >> > -               kimage_start, 0);
> >> > +               kimage->start, 0);
> >> >
> >> >         BUG(); /* Should never get here. */
> >> >  }
> >> > @@ -210,3 +208,25 @@ void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >> >  {
> >> >         /* Empty routine needed to avoid build errors. */
> >> >  }
> >> > +
> >> > +void arch_kexec_protect_crashkres(void)
> >> > +{
> >> > +       int i;
> >> > +
> >> > +       kexec_segment_flush(kexec_crash_image);
> >> > +
> >> > +       for (i = 0; i < kexec_crash_image->nr_segments; i++)
> >> > +               set_memory_valid(
> >> > +                       __phys_to_virt(kexec_crash_image->segment[i].mem),
> >> > +                       kexec_crash_image->segment[i].memsz >> PAGE_SHIFT, 0);
> >> > +}
> >> > +
> >> > +void arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres(void)
> >> > +{
> >> > +       int i;
> >> > +
> >> > +       for (i = 0; i < kexec_crash_image->nr_segments; i++)
> >> > +               set_memory_valid(
> >> > +                       __phys_to_virt(kexec_crash_image->segment[i].mem),
> >> > +                       kexec_crash_image->segment[i].memsz >> PAGE_SHIFT, 1);
> >> > +}
> >> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> >> > index d28dbcf596b6..f6a3c0e9d37f 100644
> >> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> >> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> >> > @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
> >> >  #include <linux/kernel.h>
> >> >  #include <linux/errno.h>
> >> >  #include <linux/init.h>
> >> > +#include <linux/ioport.h>
> >> > +#include <linux/kexec.h>
> >> >  #include <linux/libfdt.h>
> >> >  #include <linux/mman.h>
> >> >  #include <linux/nodemask.h>
> >> > @@ -332,56 +334,31 @@ static void create_mapping_late(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long virt,
> >> >                              NULL, debug_pagealloc_enabled());
> >> >  }
> >> >
> >> > -static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgd, phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
> >> > +static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgd, phys_addr_t start,
> >> > +                                 phys_addr_t end, pgprot_t prot,
> >> > +                                 bool page_mappings_only)
> >> > +{
> >> > +       __create_pgd_mapping(pgd, start, __phys_to_virt(start), end - start,
> >> > +                            prot, early_pgtable_alloc,
> >> > +                            page_mappings_only);
> >> > +}
> >> > +
> >> > +static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgd)
> >> >  {
> >> >         phys_addr_t kernel_start = __pa_symbol(_text);
> >> >         phys_addr_t kernel_end = __pa_symbol(__init_begin);
> >> > +       struct memblock_region *reg;
> >> >
> >> >         /*
> >> > -        * Take care not to create a writable alias for the
> >> > -        * read-only text and rodata sections of the kernel image.
> >> > +        * Temporarily marked as NOMAP to skip mapping in the next for-loop
> >> >          */
> >> > +       memblock_mark_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
> >> >
> >>
> >> OK, so the trick is to mark a memblock region NOMAP temporarily, so
> >> that we can iterate over the regions more easily?
> >> Is that the sole reason for using NOMAP in this series?
> >
> > Yes. (I followed Mark's suggestion.)
> >
> 
> OK. It is slightly hacky, but it should work without any problems afaict
> 
> > So I assume that my change here will be essentially orthogonal
> > with the chnages in for-next/core, at least, in its intent.
> >
> 
> Yes. The changes should not conflict in fundamental ways, but the code
> has changed in ways that git will not be able to deal with.
> Unfortunately, that does mean another respin :-(

Can you please review the patch attached below?
Hunks look a bit complex, but the resulting code is good, I believe.

If you are happy with it, I will post the entire patchset as v35.

Thanks,
-Takahiro AKASHI

===8<===
>From 5b546ab2a755cc2abf858c2abbd5887cdcbb31fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takahiro Akashi <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:51:24 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: kdump: protect crash dump kernel memory

arch_kexec_protect_crashkres() and arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres()
are meant to be called by kexec_load() in order to protect the memory
allocated for crash dump kernel once the image is loaded.

The protection is implemented by unmapping the relevant segments in crash
dump kernel memory, rather than making it read-only as other archs do,
to prevent coherency issues due to potential cache aliasing (with
mismatched attributes).

Page-level mappings are consistently used here so that we can change
the attributes of segments in page granularity as well as shrink the region
also in page granularity through /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size, putting
the freed memory back to buddy system.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c |  32 +++++++++---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c               | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index bc96c8a7fc79..b63baa749609 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@
 
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/cpu_ops.h>
+#include <asm/mmu.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
+#include <asm/page.h>
 
 #include "cpu-reset.h"
 
@@ -22,8 +24,6 @@
 extern const unsigned char arm64_relocate_new_kernel[];
 extern const unsigned long arm64_relocate_new_kernel_size;
 
-static unsigned long kimage_start;
-
 /**
  * kexec_image_info - For debugging output.
  */
@@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ void machine_kexec_cleanup(struct kimage *kimage)
  */
 int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *kimage)
 {
-	kimage_start = kimage->start;
-
 	kexec_image_info(kimage);
 
 	if (kimage->type != KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH && cpus_are_stuck_in_kernel()) {
@@ -183,7 +181,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *kimage)
 	kexec_list_flush(kimage);
 
 	/* Flush the new image if already in place. */
-	if (kimage->head & IND_DONE)
+	if ((kimage != kexec_crash_image) && (kimage->head & IND_DONE))
 		kexec_segment_flush(kimage);
 
 	pr_info("Bye!\n");
@@ -201,7 +199,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *kimage)
 	 */
 
 	cpu_soft_restart(1, reboot_code_buffer_phys, kimage->head,
-		kimage_start, 0);
+		kimage->start, 0);
 
 	BUG(); /* Should never get here. */
 }
@@ -210,3 +208,25 @@ void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	/* Empty routine needed to avoid build errors. */
 }
+
+void arch_kexec_protect_crashkres(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	kexec_segment_flush(kexec_crash_image);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < kexec_crash_image->nr_segments; i++)
+		set_memory_valid(
+			__phys_to_virt(kexec_crash_image->segment[i].mem),
+			kexec_crash_image->segment[i].memsz >> PAGE_SHIFT, 0);
+}
+
+void arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < kexec_crash_image->nr_segments; i++)
+		set_memory_valid(
+			__phys_to_virt(kexec_crash_image->segment[i].mem),
+			kexec_crash_image->segment[i].memsz >> PAGE_SHIFT, 1);
+}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 91502e36e6d9..3cde5f2d30ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/ioport.h>
+#include <linux/kexec.h>
 #include <linux/libfdt.h>
 #include <linux/mman.h>
 #include <linux/nodemask.h>
@@ -393,10 +395,28 @@ static void update_mapping_prot(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long virt,
 	flush_tlb_kernel_range(virt, virt + size);
 }
 
-static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgd, phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
+static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgd, phys_addr_t start,
+				  phys_addr_t end, pgprot_t prot, int flags)
+{
+	__create_pgd_mapping(pgd, start, __phys_to_virt(start), end - start,
+			     prot, early_pgtable_alloc, flags);
+}
+
+void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Remove the write permissions from the linear alias of .text/.rodata
+	 */
+	update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(_text), (unsigned long)lm_alias(_text),
+			    (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)_text,
+			    PAGE_KERNEL_RO);
+}
+
+static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgd)
 {
 	phys_addr_t kernel_start = __pa_symbol(_text);
 	phys_addr_t kernel_end = __pa_symbol(__init_begin);
+	struct memblock_region *reg;
 	int flags = 0;
 
 	if (debug_pagealloc_enabled())
@@ -405,30 +425,28 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgd, phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end
 	/*
 	 * Take care not to create a writable alias for the
 	 * read-only text and rodata sections of the kernel image.
+	 * So temporarily mark them as NOMAP to skip mappings in
+	 * the following for-loop
 	 */
+	memblock_mark_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
+	if (crashk_res.end)
+		memblock_mark_nomap(crashk_res.start,
+				    resource_size(&crashk_res));
+#endif
 
-	/* No overlap with the kernel text/rodata */
-	if (end < kernel_start || start >= kernel_end) {
-		__create_pgd_mapping(pgd, start, __phys_to_virt(start),
-				     end - start, PAGE_KERNEL,
-				     early_pgtable_alloc, flags);
-		return;
-	}
+	/* map all the memory banks */
+	for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
+		phys_addr_t start = reg->base;
+		phys_addr_t end = start + reg->size;
 
-	/*
-	 * This block overlaps the kernel text/rodata mappings.
-	 * Map the portion(s) which don't overlap.
-	 */
-	if (start < kernel_start)
-		__create_pgd_mapping(pgd, start,
-				     __phys_to_virt(start),
-				     kernel_start - start, PAGE_KERNEL,
-				     early_pgtable_alloc, flags);
-	if (kernel_end < end)
-		__create_pgd_mapping(pgd, kernel_end,
-				     __phys_to_virt(kernel_end),
-				     end - kernel_end, PAGE_KERNEL,
-				     early_pgtable_alloc, flags);
+		if (start >= end)
+			break;
+		if (memblock_is_nomap(reg))
+			continue;
+
+		__map_memblock(pgd, start, end, PAGE_KERNEL, flags);
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Map the linear alias of the [_text, __init_begin) interval
@@ -440,37 +458,24 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgd, phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end
 	 * Note that contiguous mappings cannot be remapped in this way,
 	 * so we should avoid them here.
 	 */
-	__create_pgd_mapping(pgd, kernel_start, __phys_to_virt(kernel_start),
-			     kernel_end - kernel_start, PAGE_KERNEL,
-			     early_pgtable_alloc, NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
-}
+	__map_memblock(pgd, kernel_start, kernel_end,
+		       PAGE_KERNEL_RO, NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
+	memblock_clear_nomap(kernel_start, kernel_end - kernel_start);
 
-void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void)
-{
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
 	/*
-	 * Remove the write permissions from the linear alias of .text/.rodata
+	 * Use page-level mappings here so that we can shrink the region
+	 * in page granularity and put back unused memory to buddy system
+	 * through /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size interface.
 	 */
-	update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(_text), (unsigned long)lm_alias(_text),
-			    (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)_text,
-			    PAGE_KERNEL_RO);
-}
-
-static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgd)
-{
-	struct memblock_region *reg;
-
-	/* map all the memory banks */
-	for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
-		phys_addr_t start = reg->base;
-		phys_addr_t end = start + reg->size;
-
-		if (start >= end)
-			break;
-		if (memblock_is_nomap(reg))
-			continue;
-
-		__map_memblock(pgd, start, end);
+	if (crashk_res.end) {
+		__map_memblock(pgd, crashk_res.start, crashk_res.end + 1,
+			       PAGE_KERNEL,
+			       NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS);
+		memblock_clear_nomap(crashk_res.start,
+				     resource_size(&crashk_res));
 	}
+#endif
 }
 
 void mark_rodata_ro(void)
-- 
2.11.1




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