Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/KASLR: Do not adapt the size of the direct mapping section for SGI UV system

From: Mike Travis
Date: Thu May 18 2017 - 16:28:40 EST



Sorry, I forgot to add that perhaps the adding of the
is_early_uv_system() function be put into a separate
patch as well.

Thanks.

On 5/18/2017 1:26 PM, Mike Travis wrote:
> Hi Baoquan He,
>
> The concept of the patch is correct (since it is I as sent :),
> but I would prefer that the entire is_early_uv_system() be put
> into the uv.h file. Primarily because we may need to change
> that in the future so having UV specific code in other places
> than under platform/uv is not that desirable. Plus I think it's
> better to consolidate the logic in one place.
>
> Making it an inline function in uv.h is fine for now. If we
> need to change it, I'll move it to the UV specific init
> function.
>
> And if it's alright with others, you should add the #include
> of the efi.h header file under the part of uv.h that has
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_UV defined.
>
> That would mean the KASLR function would only add an
> #include <asm/uv/uv.h> to access that UV specific funtion.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 5/17/2017 11:52 PM, Baoquan He wrote:
>> On SGI UV system, kernel casually hang with kaslr enabled.
>>
>> The back trace is:
>>
>> kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:311!
>> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
>> [...]
>> RIP: 0010:__init_extra_mapping+0x188/0x196
>> [...]
>> Call Trace:
>> init_extra_mapping_uc+0x13/0x15
>> map_high+0x67/0x75
>> map_mmioh_high_uv3+0x20a/0x219
>> uv_system_init_hub+0x12d9/0x1496
>> uv_system_init+0x27/0x29
>> native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x28d/0x2d8
>> kernel_init_freeable+0xdd/0x253
>> ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
>> kernel_init+0xe/0x110
>> ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
>>
>> The root cause is SGI UV system needs map its MMIOH region to direct
>> mapping section.
>>
>> When kaslr disabled, there are 64TB space for system RAM to do direct
>> mapping. Both system RAM and SGI UV MMIOH region share this 64TB space.
>> However with kaslr enabled, mm KASLR only reserves the actual size of
>> system RAM plus 10TB for direct mapping usage. Then MMIOH mapping of
>> SGI UV could go beyond the upper bound of direct mapping section to step
>> into VMALLOC or VMEMMAP area. Then the BUG_ON() in __init_extra_mapping()
>> will be triggered.
>>
>> E.g on the SGI UV3 machine where this bug is reported , there are two MMIOH
>> regions:
>>
>> [ 1.519001] UV: Map MMIOH0_HI 0xffc00000000 - 0x100000000000
>> [ 1.523001] UV: Map MMIOH1_HI 0x100000000000 - 0x200000000000
>>
>> They are [16TB-16G, 16TB) and [16TB, 32TB). On this machine, 512G ram are
>> spread out to 1TB regions. Then above two SGI MMIOH regions also will be
>> mapped into the direct mapping section. The point is that SGI UV maps its
>> MMIOH regions to the direct mapping section in uv_system_init() which is
>> called during kernel_init_freeable(). It's much later than
>> kernel_randomize_memory(). Mm KASLR has no chance to take it into
>> consideration.
>>
>> To fix it, we need detect if it's SGI UV system early, then do not adapt
>> the size of the direct mapping section in kernel_randomize_memory() if yes.
>> According to discussion with SGI developer, "The SGI bios adds UVsystab.
>> Only systems running SGI bios (and now HPE Hawks2) will have UVsystab."
>>
>> Hence check if UVsystab is present, if yes, do not adapt the size of the
>> direct mapping section in kernel_randomize_memory()
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "travis@xxxxxxx" <travis@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Frank Ramsay <frank.ramsay@xxxxxxx>
>> linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>> arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h | 2 ++
>> arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c | 4 +++-
>> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 7 +++++++
>> 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h
>> index 6686820..0275776 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h
>> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ struct mm_struct;
>> extern enum uv_system_type get_uv_system_type(void);
>> extern int is_uv_system(void);
>> extern int is_uv_hubless(void);
>> +extern int is_early_uv_system(void);
>> extern void uv_cpu_init(void);
>> extern void uv_nmi_init(void);
>> extern void uv_system_init(void);
>> @@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ extern const struct cpumask *uv_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
>> static inline enum uv_system_type get_uv_system_type(void) { return UV_NONE; }
>> static inline int is_uv_system(void) { return 0; }
>> static inline int is_uv_hubless(void) { return 0; }
>> +static inline int is_early_uv_system(void) { return 0; }
>> static inline void uv_cpu_init(void) { }
>> static inline void uv_system_init(void) { }
>> static inline const struct cpumask *
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
>> index aed2064..b75e1f5 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
>> @@ -22,11 +22,13 @@
>> #include <linux/kernel.h>
>> #include <linux/init.h>
>> #include <linux/random.h>
>> +#include <linux/efi.h>
>>
>> #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
>> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>> #include <asm/setup.h>
>> #include <asm/kaslr.h>
>> +#include <asm/uv/uv.h>
>>
>> #include "mm_internal.h"
>>
>> @@ -123,7 +125,7 @@ void __init kernel_randomize_memory(void)
>> CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING;
>>
>> /* Adapt phyiscal memory region size based on available memory */
>> - if (memory_tb < kaslr_regions[0].size_tb)
>> + if (memory_tb < kaslr_regions[0].size_tb && !is_early_uv_system())
>> kaslr_regions[0].size_tb = memory_tb;
>>
>> /* Calculate entropy available between regions */
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
>> index 7e76a4d..b71e01d 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
>> @@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ static int __init setup_add_efi_memmap(char *arg)
>> }
>> early_param("add_efi_memmap", setup_add_efi_memmap);
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_UV
>> +int is_early_uv_system(void)
>> +{
>> + return !((efi.uv_systab == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) || !efi.uv_systab);
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>> static efi_status_t __init phys_efi_set_virtual_address_map(
>> unsigned long memory_map_size,
>> unsigned long descriptor_size,
>>