Re: [PATCH] riscv: mm: Fix W+X mappings at boot

[Jisheng Zhang]

On Wed, 19 May 2021 21:55:40 -0700
Drew Fustini <drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 05:00:38PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When the kernel mapping was moved the last 2GB of the address space,
> > (__va(PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn))) is much smaller than the .data section
> > start address, the last set_memory_nx() in protect_kernel_text_data()
> > will fail, thus the .data section is still mapped as W+X. This results
> > in below W+X mapping waring at boot. Fix it by passing the correct
> > .data section page num to the set_memory_nx().
> >
> > [    0.396516] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [    0.396889] riscv/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address (____ptrval____)/0xffffffff80c00000
> > [    0.398347] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/riscv/mm/ptdump.c:258 note_page+0x244/0x24a
> > [    0.398964] Modules linked in:
> > [    0.399459] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1+ #14
> > [    0.400003] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> > [    0.400591] epc : note_page+0x244/0x24a
> > [    0.401368]  ra : note_page+0x244/0x24a
> > [    0.401772] epc : ffffffff80007c86 ra : ffffffff80007c86 sp : ffffffe000e7bc30
> > [    0.402304]  gp : ffffffff80caae88 tp : ffffffe000e70000 t0 : ffffffff80cb80cf
> > [    0.402800]  t1 : ffffffff80cb80c0 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffe000e7bc80
> > [    0.403310]  s1 : ffffffe000e7bde8 a0 : 0000000000000053 a1 : ffffffff80c83ff0
> > [    0.403805]  a2 : 0000000000000010 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 6c7e7a5137233100
> > [    0.404298]  a5 : 6c7e7a5137233100 a6 : 0000000000000030 a7 : ffffffffffffffff
> > [    0.404849]  s2 : ffffffff80e00000 s3 : 0000000040000000 s4 : 0000000000000000
> > [    0.405393]  s5 : 0000000000000000 s6 : 0000000000000003 s7 : ffffffe000e7bd48
> > [    0.405935]  s8 : ffffffff81000000 s9 : ffffffffc0000000 s10: ffffffe000e7bd48
> > [    0.406476]  s11: 0000000000001000 t3 : 0000000000000072 t4 : ffffffffffffffff
> > [    0.407016]  t5 : 0000000000000002 t6 : ffffffe000e7b978
> > [    0.407435] status: 0000000000000120 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000003
> > [    0.408052] Call Trace:
> > [    0.408343] [<ffffffff80007c86>] note_page+0x244/0x24a
> > [    0.408855] [<ffffffff8010c5a6>] ptdump_hole+0x14/0x1e
> > [    0.409263] [<ffffffff800f65c6>] walk_pgd_range+0x2a0/0x376
> > [    0.409690] [<ffffffff800f6828>] walk_page_range_novma+0x4e/0x6e
> > [    0.410146] [<ffffffff8010c5f8>] ptdump_walk_pgd+0x48/0x78
> > [    0.410570] [<ffffffff80007d66>] ptdump_check_wx+0xb4/0xf8
> > [    0.410990] [<ffffffff80006738>] mark_rodata_ro+0x26/0x2e
> > [    0.411407] [<ffffffff8031961e>] kernel_init+0x44/0x108
> > [    0.411814] [<ffffffff80002312>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc
> > [    0.412309] ---[ end trace 7ec3459f2547ea83 ]---
> > [    0.413141] Checked W+X mappings: failed, 512 W+X pages found
> >
> > Fixes: 2bfc6cd81bd17e43 ("riscv: Move kernel mapping outside of linear mapping")
> > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 8 ++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > index 4faf8bd157ea..4c4c92ce0bb8 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> > @@ -746,14 +746,18 @@ void __init protect_kernel_text_data(void)
> >       unsigned long init_data_start = (unsigned long)__init_data_begin;
> >       unsigned long rodata_start = (unsigned long)__start_rodata;
> >       unsigned long data_start = (unsigned long)_data;
> > -     unsigned long max_low = (unsigned long)(__va(PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn)));
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_MMU)
> > +     unsigned long end_va = kernel_virt_addr + load_sz;
> > +#else
> > +     unsigned long end_va = (unsigned long)(__va(PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn)));
> > +#endif
> >
> >       set_memory_ro(text_start, (init_text_start - text_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> >       set_memory_ro(init_text_start, (init_data_start - init_text_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> >       set_memory_nx(init_data_start, (rodata_start - init_data_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> >       /* rodata section is marked readonly in mark_rodata_ro */
> >       set_memory_nx(rodata_start, (data_start - rodata_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > -     set_memory_nx(data_start, (max_low - data_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > +     set_memory_nx(data_start, (end_va - data_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> >  }
> >
> >  void mark_rodata_ro(void)
> > --
> > 2.31.0
> >



> I know there is a new thread now with a different approach but I wanted
> to say that this did fix that warning on the BeagleV Starlight beta
> prototype board [1] with the StarFive JH7100 SoC [2]. I am using Emil's
> starlight branch [3] which is a set of StarFive patches on top of
> 5.13-rc2. Emil included this W+X mapping patch [4]. It does fix the
> warning on boot for me and the bootlog [5] shows:
> 
>   [    2.302598] Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found
> 
> Thus if useful, here is my TB:
> 
> Tested-by: Drew Fustini <drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Thank you. Alex's solution is better. It ensures there's no W+X mapping
from the beginning. So far, riscv's STRICT_KERNEL_RWX method is to create
W+X mapping from the beginning but remove W or X attribute at the end of kernel
booting. Alex's solution changes STRICT_KERNEL_RWX method, one effective side
of it is fixing this W+X mapping. I'm not sure whether Alex's patch should
be merged in this cycle or next window since rc1 is released. 

Two choice to fix:
Merge this small fix for linux-5.13 and bring Alex's patch for linux-next

Or

Use Alex's patch directly.


I would leave the decision to riscv maintainers.

Thanks