Re: [PATCH 1/2 v6] x86/kdump: always reserve the low 1MiB when the crashkernel option is specified

[lijiang]

å 2019å10æ28æ 11:19, Dave Young åé:
> On 10/28/19 at 10:45am, Lianbo Jiang wrote:
>> Kdump kernel will reuse the first 640k region because the real mode
>> trampoline has to work in this area. When the vmcore is dumped, the
>> old memory in this area may be accessed, therefore, kernel has to
>> copy the contents of the first 640k area to a backup region so that
>> kdump kernel can read the old memory from the backup area of the
>> first 640k area, which is done in the purgatory().
>>
>> But, the current handling of copying the first 640k area runs into
>> problems when SME is enabled, kernel does not properly copy these
>> old memory to the backup area in the purgatory(), thereby, kdump
>> kernel reads out the encrypted contents, because the kdump kernel
>> must access the first kernel's memory with the encryption bit set
>> when SME is enabled in the first kernel. Please refer to this link:
>>
>> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204793
>>
>> Finally, it causes the following errors, and the crash tool gets
>> invalid pointers when parsing the vmcore.
>>
>> crash> kmem -s|grep -i invalid
>> kmem: dma-kmalloc-512: slab:ffffd77680001c00 invalid freepointer:a6086ac099f0c5a4
>> kmem: dma-kmalloc-512: slab:ffffd77680001c00 invalid freepointer:a6086ac099f0c5a4
>> crash>
>>
>> To avoid the above errors, when the crashkernel option is specified,
>> lets reserve the remaining low 1MiB memory(after reserving real mode
>> memory) so that the allocated memory does not fall into the low 1MiB
>> area, which makes us not to copy the first 640k content to a backup
>> region in purgatory(). This indicates that it does not need to be
>> included in crash dumps or used for anything except the processor
>> trampolines that must live in the low 1MiB.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> BTW:I also tried to fix the above problem in purgatory(), but there
>> are too many restricts in purgatory() context, for example: i can't
>> allocate new memory to create the identity mapping page table for
>> SME situation.
>>
>> Currently, there are two places where the first 640k area is needed,
>> the first one is in the find_trampoline_placement(), another one is
>> in the reserve_real_mode(), and their content doesn't matter.
>>
>> In addition, also need to clean all the code related to the backup
>> region later.
>>
>>  arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>  arch/x86/realmode/init.c           |  2 ++
>>  include/linux/kexec.h              |  2 ++
>>  kernel/kexec_core.c                |  3 +++
>>  4 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
>> index 5dcd438ad8f2..42d7c15c45f1 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
>> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>>  #include <linux/suspend.h>
>>  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>>  #include <linux/efi.h>
>> +#include <linux/memblock.h>
>>  
>>  #include <asm/init.h>
>>  #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>> @@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
>>  #include <asm/kexec-bzimage64.h>
>>  #include <asm/setup.h>
>>  #include <asm/set_memory.h>
>> +#include <asm/cmdline.h>
>>  
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
>>  /*
>> @@ -687,3 +689,16 @@ void arch_kexec_pre_free_pages(void *vaddr, unsigned int pages)
>>  	 */
>>  	set_memory_encrypted((unsigned long)vaddr, pages);
>>  }
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * When the crashkernel option is specified, only use the low
>> + * 1MiB for the real mode trampoline.
>> + */
>> +void __init kexec_reserve_low_1MiB(void)
>> +{
>> +	if (cmdline_find_option(boot_command_line, "crashkernel",
>> +				NULL, 0) > 0) {
>> +		memblock_reserve(0, 1<<20);
>> +		pr_info("Reserving the low 1MiB of memory for crashkernel\n");
>> +	}
>> +}
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/realmode/init.c b/arch/x86/realmode/init.c
>> index 7dce39c8c034..064cc79a015d 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/realmode/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/realmode/init.c
>> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>>  #include <linux/memblock.h>
>>  #include <linux/mem_encrypt.h>
>> +#include <linux/kexec.h>
>>  
>>  #include <asm/set_memory.h>
>>  #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>> @@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ void __init reserve_real_mode(void)
>>  
>>  	memblock_reserve(mem, size);
>>  	set_real_mode_mem(mem);
>> +	kexec_reserve_low_1MiB();
>>  }
>>  
>>  static void __init setup_real_mode(void)
>> diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
>> index 1776eb2e43a4..988bf2de51a7 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/kexec.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
>> @@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ extern void __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *);
>>  extern void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *);
>>  int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *);
>>  int kexec_crash_loaded(void);
>> +void __init kexec_reserve_low_1MiB(void);
>>  void crash_save_cpu(struct pt_regs *regs, int cpu);
>>  extern int kimage_crash_copy_vmcoreinfo(struct kimage *image);
>>  
>> @@ -397,6 +398,7 @@ static inline void __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) { }
>>  static inline void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) { }
>>  static inline int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *p) { return 0; }
>>  static inline int kexec_crash_loaded(void) { return 0; }
>> +static inline void __init kexec_reserve_low_1MiB(void) { }
>>  #define kexec_in_progress false
>>  #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE */
>>  
>> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
>> index 15d70a90b50d..8856047bcdc8 100644
>> --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
>> @@ -1213,3 +1213,6 @@ void __weak arch_kexec_protect_crashkres(void)
>>  
>>  void __weak arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres(void)
>>  {}
>> +
>> +void __init __weak kexec_reserve_low_1MiB(void)
>> +{}
> 
> Hi Lianbo,
> 
> Since this is x86 only, add a weak function sounds not necessary.
> For example can just move it to  arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
> Or maybe even better to limit it to kdump only, move it to 
> arch/x86/include/asm/crash.h
> and arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
> 
Good point. I will improve them and then post again.

Thanks.
Lianbo

> Thanks
> Dave
>