Re: [PATCH 1/7] kexec_file: make an use of purgatory optional
From: Dave Young
Date: Fri Mar 02 2018 - 01:11:29 EST
On 03/02/18 at 01:58pm, Dave Young wrote:
> On 02/27/18 at 01:48pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > On arm64, crash dump kernel's usable memory is protected by
> > *unmapping* it from kernel virtual space unlike other architectures
> > where the region is just made read-only. It is highly unlikely that
> > the region is accidentally corrupted and this observation rationalizes
> > that digest check code can also be dropped from purgatory.
> > The resulting code is so simple as it doesn't require a bit ugly
> > re-linking/relocation stuff, i.e. arch_kexec_apply_relocations_add().
> >
> > Please see:
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-December/545428.html
> > All that the purgatory does is to shuffle arguments and jump into a new
> > kernel, while we still need to have some space for a hash value
> > (purgatory_sha256_digest) which is never checked against.
> >
> > As such, it doesn't make sense to have trampline code between old kernel
> > and new kernel on arm64.
> >
> > This patch introduces a new configuration, ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY, and
> > allows related code to be compiled in only if necessary.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 3 +++
> > arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 +++
> > kernel/kexec_file.c | 6 ++++++
> > 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > index 73ce5dd07642..c32a181a7cbb 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > @@ -552,6 +552,9 @@ config KEXEC_FILE
> > for kernel and initramfs as opposed to a list of segments as is the
> > case for the older kexec call.
> >
> > +config ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
> > + def_bool KEXEC_FILE
> > +
> > config RELOCATABLE
> > bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
> > depends on PPC64 || (FLATMEM && (44x || FSL_BOOKE))
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > index c1236b187824..f031c3efe47e 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > @@ -2019,6 +2019,9 @@ config KEXEC_FILE
> > for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as
> > accepted by previous system call.
> >
> > +config ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
> > + def_bool KEXEC_FILE
> > +
> > config KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG
> > bool "Verify kernel signature during kexec_file_load() syscall"
> > depends on KEXEC_FILE
> > diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > index e5bcd94c1efb..990adae52151 100644
> > --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > @@ -26,7 +26,11 @@
> > #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> > #include "kexec_internal.h"
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
> > static int kexec_calculate_store_digests(struct kimage *image);
> > +#else
> > +static int kexec_calculate_store_digests(struct kimage *image) { return 0; };
> > +#endif
> >
> > /* Architectures can provide this probe function */
> > int __weak arch_kexec_kernel_image_probe(struct kimage *image, void *buf,
> > @@ -520,6 +524,7 @@ int kexec_add_buffer(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
> > /* Calculate and store the digest of segments */
> > static int kexec_calculate_store_digests(struct kimage *image)
> > {
> > @@ -1022,3 +1027,4 @@ int kexec_purgatory_get_set_symbol(struct kimage *image, const char *name,
> >
> > return 0;
> > }
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY */
> > --
> > 2.16.2
> >
>
> For this one, I think purgatory digest verification is still good to
> have, but I do not insist since this is arch specific.
>
> If nobody else objects then I think I can ack the series after some
> testing passed.
For the #ifdefs, they can be changed to IS_ENABLED like other similar
thing.
>
> Thanks
> Dave