Re: [PATCH] arm64: kaslr: Add 2MB correction for aligning kernel image

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Wed Mar 22 2017 - 05:27:29 EST



> On 22 Mar 2017, at 08:55, Srinivas Ramana <sramana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If kernel image extends across alignment boundary, existing
> code increases the KASLR offset by size of kernel image. The
> offset is masked after resizing. There are cases, where after
> masking, we may still have kernel image extending across
> boundary. This eventually results in only 2MB block getting
> mapped while creating the page tables. This results in data aborts
> while accessing unmapped regions during second relocation (with
> kaslr offset) in __primary_switch. To fix this problem, add a
> 2MB correction to offset along with the correction of kernel
> image size, before applying mask.
>
> For example consider below case, where kernel image still crosses
> 1GB alignment boundary, after masking the offset, which is fixed
> by adding 2MB correction.
>
> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT = 30
> Swapper using section maps with section size 2MB.
> CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS = 3
> VA_BITS = 39
>
> _text : 0xffffff8008080000
> _end : 0xffffff800aa1b000
> offset : 0x1f35600000
> mask = ((1UL << (VA_BITS - 2)) - 1) & ~(SZ_2M - 1)
>
> (_text + offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT = 0x3fffffe7c
> (_end + offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT = 0x3fffffe7d
>
> offset after existing correction (before mask) = 0x1f37f9b000
> (_text + offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT = 0x3fffffe7d
> (_end + offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT = 0x3fffffe7d
>
> offset (after mask) = 0x1f37e00000
> (_text + offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT = 0x3fffffe7c
> (_end + offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT = 0x3fffffe7d
>
> new offset w/ 2MB correction (before mask) = 0x1f37819b00
> new offset w/ 2MB correction (after mask) = 0x1f38000000
> (_text + offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT = 0x3fffffe7d
> (_end + offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT = 0x3fffffe7d
>
> Fixes: f80fb3a3d508 ("arm64: add support for kernel ASLR")
> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Ramana <sramana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c
> index 769f24ef628c..7b8af985e497 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c
> @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ u64 __init kaslr_early_init(u64 dt_phys, u64 modulo_offset)
> */
> if ((((u64)_text + offset + modulo_offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT) !=
> (((u64)_end + offset + modulo_offset) >> SWAPPER_TABLE_SHIFT))
> - offset = (offset + (u64)(_end - _text)) & mask;
> + offset = (offset + (u64)(_end - _text) + SZ_2M) & mask;
>
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN))
> /*


Hi,

Thanks for spotting this!

Instead of adding 2 MB, could we round up _end - _text to a SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE multiple instead?