Re: [PATCH V3 3/5] x86/efi: Permanently save the EFI_MEMORY_MAP passed by the firmware

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Wed Sep 05 2018 - 08:27:55 EST


On 5 September 2018 at 00:12, Sai Praneeth Prakhya
<sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The efi page fault handler that recovers from page faults caused by the
> firmware needs the original memory map passed by the firmware. It looks
> up this memory map to find the type of the memory region at which the
> page fault occurred. Presently, EFI subsystem discards the original
> memory map passed by the firmware and replaces it with a new memory map
> that has only EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_<CODE/DATA> regions. But illegal
> accesses by firmware can occur at any region. Hence, _only_ if
> CONFIG_EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESS is defined, create a backup of the
> original memory map passed by the firmware, so that efi page fault
> handler could detect/recover from illegal accesses to *any* efi region.
>

Why do we care about the memory map at all when a fault occurs during
the invocation of a EFI runtime service?

I think reasoning about what went wrong and why, and distinguishing
between allowable and non-allowable faults is a slippery slope, so
[taking Thomas's feedback into account], I think we can simplify this
series further and just block all subsequent EFI runtime services
calls if any permission or page fault occurs while executing them.

Would we still need to preserve the old memory map in that case?

> Suggested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Based-on-code-from: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Al Stone <astone@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 6 ++++++
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 2 ++
> arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 56 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> index cec5fae23eb3..788ed4cbce22 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> @@ -141,6 +141,12 @@ extern int __init efi_reuse_config(u64 tables, int nr_tables);
> extern void efi_delete_dummy_variable(void);
> extern void efi_switch_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESS
> +extern void __init efi_save_original_memmap(void);
> +#else
> +static inline void __init efi_save_original_memmap(void) { }
> +#endif /* CONFIG_EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESS */
> +
> struct efi_setup_data {
> u64 fw_vendor;
> u64 runtime;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> index 9061babfbc83..7a3ea4cd5939 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> @@ -946,6 +946,8 @@ static void __init __efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
>
> pa = __pa(new_memmap);
>
> + efi_save_original_memmap();
> +
> /*
> * Unregister the early EFI memmap from efi_init() and install
> * the new EFI memory map that we are about to pass to the
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> index 844d31cb8a0c..36b0b042ba56 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> @@ -654,3 +654,51 @@ int efi_capsule_setup_info(struct capsule_info *cap_info, void *kbuff,
> }
>
> #endif
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESS
> +
> +static bool original_memory_map_present;
> +static struct efi_memory_map original_memory_map;
> +
> +/*
> + * The efi page fault handler that recovers from page faults caused by
> + * buggy firmware needs original memory map passed by firmware. Hence,
> + * build a new EFI memmap that has all entries and save it for later use.
> + */
> +void __init efi_save_original_memmap(void)
> +{
> + efi_memory_desc_t *md;
> + void *remapped_phys, *new_md;
> + phys_addr_t new_phys, new_size;
> +
> + new_size = efi.memmap.desc_size * efi.memmap.nr_map;
> + new_phys = efi_memmap_alloc(efi.memmap.nr_map);
> + if (!new_phys) {
> + pr_err("Failed to allocate new EFI memmap\n");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + remapped_phys = memremap(new_phys, new_size, MEMREMAP_WB);
> + if (!remapped_phys) {
> + pr_err("Failed to remap new EFI memmap\n");
> + __free_pages(pfn_to_page(PHYS_PFN(new_phys)), get_order(new_size));
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + new_md = remapped_phys;
> + for_each_efi_memory_desc(md) {
> + memcpy(new_md, md, efi.memmap.desc_size);
> + new_md += efi.memmap.desc_size;
> + }
> +
> + original_memory_map.late = 1;
> + original_memory_map.phys_map = new_phys;
> + original_memory_map.map = remapped_phys;
> + original_memory_map.nr_map = efi.memmap.nr_map;
> + original_memory_map.desc_size = efi.memmap.desc_size;
> + original_memory_map.map_end = remapped_phys + new_size;
> + original_memory_map.desc_version = efi.memmap.desc_version;
> +
> + original_memory_map_present = true;
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESS */
> --
> 2.7.4
>