[PATCH v34 06/14] arm64: kdump: protect crash dump kernel memory
Ard Biesheuvel
ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Thu Mar 30 06:58:14 PDT 2017
On 30 March 2017 at 10:56, AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org> wrote:
> 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>
This looks mostly correct. One comment below.
> ---
> 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);
This should be PAGE_KERNEL not PAGE_KERNEL_RO.
> + 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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