Re: crash: `kmem -s` reported "kmem: dma-kmalloc-512: slab: ffffe192c0001000 invalid freepointer: e5ffef4e9a040b7e" on a dumped vmcore

[Dave Young]

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On 08/01/19 at 11:02pm, lijiang wrote:
> Hi, Tom
> 
> Recently, i ran into a problem about SME and used crash tool to check the vmcore as follow: 
> 
> crash> kmem -s | grep -i invalid
> kmem: dma-kmalloc-512: slab: ffffe192c0001000 invalid freepointer: e5ffef4e9a040b7e
> kmem: dma-kmalloc-512: slab: ffffe192c0001000 invalid freepointer: e5ffef4e9a040b7e
> 
> And the crash tool reported the above error, probably, the main reason is that kernel does not
> correctly handle the first 640k region when SME is enabled.
> 
> When SME is enabled, the kernel and initramfs images are loaded into the decrypted memory, and
> the backup area(first 640k) is also mapped as decrypted, but the first 640k data is copied to
> the backup area in purgatory(). Please refer to this file: arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c
> ......
> static int copy_backup_region(void)
> {
>         if (purgatory_backup_dest) {
>                 memcpy((void *)purgatory_backup_dest,
>                        (void *)purgatory_backup_src, purgatory_backup_sz);
>         }
>         return 0;
> }
> ......
> 
> arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> ......
> machine_kexec_prepare()->
> arch_update_purgatory()->
> .....
> 
> Actually, the firs 640k area is encrypted in the first kernel when SME is enabled, here kernel
> copies the first 640k data to the backup area in purgatory(), because the backup area is mapped
> as decrypted, this copying operation makes that the first 640k data is decrypted(decoded) and
> saved to the backup area, but probably kernel can not aware of SME in purgatory(), which causes
> kernel mistakenly read out the first 640k.
> 
> In addition, i hacked kernel code as follow:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> index 7bcc92add72c..a51631d36a7a 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
> @@ -377,6 +378,16 @@ static ssize_t __read_vmcore(char *buffer, size_t buflen, loff_t *fpos,
>                                             m->offset + m->size - *fpos,
>                                             buflen);
>                         start = m->paddr + *fpos - m->offset;
> +                       if (m->paddr == 0x73f60000) {//the backup area's start address:0x73f60000
> +                               tmp = read_from_oldmem(buffer, tsz, &start,
> +                                               userbuf, false);
> +                       } else
>                                 tmp = read_from_oldmem(buffer, tsz, &start,
>                                                userbuf, mem_encrypt_active());
>                         if (tmp < 0)
> 
> Here, i used the crash tool to check the vmcore, i can see that the backup area is decrypted,
> except for the dma-kmalloc-512. So i suspect that kernel did not correctly read out the first
> 640k data to backup area. Do you happen to know how to deal with the first 640k area in purgatory()
> when SME is enabled? Any idea?
> 
> BTW: I' curious the reason why the address of dma-kmalloc-512k always falls into the first 640k
> region, and i did not see the same issue on another machine.
> 
> Machine:
> Serial Number 	diesel-sys9079-0001
> Model           AMD Diesel (A0C)
> CPU             AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core Processor
> 
> 
> Background:
> On x86_64, the first 640k region is special because of some historical reasons. And kdump kernel will
> reuse the first 640k region, so kernel will back up(copy) the first 640k region to a backup area in
> purgatory(), in order not to rewrite the old region(640k) in kdump kernel, which makes sure that kdump
> can read out the old memory from vmcore.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Lianbo