Re: [PATCH v12 0/5] x86/boot/KASLR: Parse ACPI table and limit KASLR to choosing immovable memory

From: Masayoshi Mizuma
Date: Thu Nov 29 2018 - 12:32:54 EST


Hi Chao,

Thank you for your continued working.

Could you please build your patches before sending?
Your patches depend on the following kconfig,
so please build them under the config combination.

RANDOMIZE_BASE
MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
EARLY_PARSE_RSDP
KEXEC
EFI

Thanks,
Masa

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:16:26PM +0800, Chao Fan wrote:
> ***Background:
> People reported that KASLR may randomly choose some positions
> which are located in movable memory regions. This will break memory
> hotplug feature and make the movable memory chosen by KASLR can't be
> removed.
>
> ***Solutions:
> Get the information of memory hot-remove, then KASLR will know the
> right regions. Information about memory hot-remove is in ACPI
> tables, which will be parsed after start_kernel(), so that KASLR
> can't get the information.
>
> Somebody suggest to add a kernel parameter to specify the
> immovable memory so that limit KASLR in these regions. Then I make
> a patchset. After several versions, Ingo gave a suggestion:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1634024.html
> Follow Ingo's suggestion, imitate the ACPI code to parse the ACPI
> tables, so that the kaslr can get necessary memory information in
> ACPI tables.
> I think ACPI code is an independent part, so imitate the codes
> and functions to 'compressed/' directory, so that kaslr won't
> influence the initialization of ACPI.
>
> PATCH 1/5 Add get_acpi_rsdp() to parse RSDP in cmdline from KEXEC
> PATCH 2/5 Add efi_get_rsdp_addr() to find RSDP from EFI table when
> booting from EFI.
> PATCH 3/5 Add bios_get_rsdp_addr() to search RSDP in memory when EFI
> table not found.
> PATCH 4/5 Compute SRAT table from RSDP and walk SRAT table to store
> the immovable memory regions.
> PATCH 5/5 Calculate the intersection between memory regions from e820/efi
> memory table and immovable memory regions. Limit KASLR to
> choosing these regions for randomization.
>
> v1->v2:
> - Simplify some code.
> Follow Baoquan He's suggestion:
> - Reuse the head file of acpi code.
>
> v2->v3:
> - Test in more conditions, so remove the 'RFC' tag.
> - Change some comments.
>
> v3->v4:
> Follow Thomas Gleixner's suggetsion:
> - Put the whole efi related function into #define CONFIG_EFI and return
> false in the other stub.
>
> v4->v5:
> Follow Dou Liyang's suggestion:
> - Add more comments about some functions based on kernel code.
> - Change some typo in comments.
> - Clean useless variable.
> - Add check for the boundary of array.
> - Add check for 'movable_node' parameter
>
> v5->v6:
> Follow Baoquan He's suggestion:
> - Change some log.
> - Add the check for acpi_rsdp
> - Change some code logical to make code clear
>
> v6->v7:
> Follow Rafael's suggestion:
> - Add more comments and patch log.
> Follow test robot's suggestion:
> - Add "static" tag for function
>
> v7-v8:
> Follow Kees Cook's suggestion:
> - Use mem_overlaps() to check memory region.
> - Use #ifdef in the definition of function.
>
> v8-v9:
> Follow Boris' suggestion:
> - Change code style.
> - Splite PATCH 1/3 to more path.
> - Introduce some new function
> - Use existing function to rework some code
> Follow Masayoshi's suggetion:
> - Make code more readable
>
> v9->v10:
> Follow Baoquan's suggestion:
> - Change some log
> - Merge last two patch together.
>
> v10->v11:
> Follow Boris' suggestion:
> - Link kstrtoull() instead of copying it.
> - Drop the useless wrapped function.
>
> v11->v12:
> Follow Boris' suggestion:
> - Change patch log and code comments.
> - Add 'CONFIG_EARLY_PARSE_RSDP' to make code easy to read
> - Put strtoull() to misc.c
> Follow Masa's suggestion:
> - Remove the detection for 'movable_node'
> - Change the code logical about cmdline_find_option()
>
> Any comments will be welcome.
>
>
> Chao Fan (5):
> x86/boot: Add get_acpi_rsdp() to parse RSDP in cmdline from KEXEC
> x86/boot: Add efi_get_rsdp_addr() to find RSDP from EFI table
> x86/boot: Add bios_get_rsdp_addr() to search RSDP in memory
> x86/boot: Parse SRAT table from RSDP and store immovable memory
> x86/boot/KASLR: Limit KASLR to extracting kernel in immovable memory
>
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 10 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c | 322 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 79 ++++++--
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 5 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 24 +++
> lib/kstrtox.c | 5 +
> 7 files changed, 432 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpitb.c
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