[PATCH v6 10/21] x86/decompressor: Avoid the need for a stack in the 32-bit trampoline
From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Tue Jul 11 2023 - 05:16:58 EST
The 32-bit trampoline no longer uses the stack for anything except
performing a far return back to long mode. Currently, this stack is
placed in the same page that carries the trampoline code, which means
this page must be mapped writable and executable, and the stack is
therefore executable as well.
Replace the far return with a far jump, so that the return address can
be pre-calculated and patched into the code before it is called. This
removes the need for a stack entirely, and in a later patch, this will
be taken advantage of by removing writable permissions from (and adding
executable permissions to) this code page explicitly when booting via
the EFI stub.
Not touching the stack pointer also makes it more straight-forward to
call the trampoline code as an ordinary 64-bit function from C code.
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 48 +++++++++-----------
arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h | 6 +--
arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c | 12 ++++-
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index a387cd80964e1a1e..cdefafd456c70335 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -449,9 +449,6 @@ SYM_CODE_START(startup_64)
leaq TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_OFFSET(%rax), %rax
call *%rax
- /* Restore the stack, the 32-bit trampoline uses its own stack */
- leaq rva(boot_stack_end)(%rbx), %rsp
-
/*
* cleanup_trampoline() would restore trampoline memory.
*
@@ -537,24 +534,22 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(.Lrelocated)
* EDI contains the base address of the trampoline memory.
* Non-zero ESI means trampoline needs to enable 5-level paging.
*/
+ .section ".rodata", "a", @progbits
SYM_CODE_START(trampoline_32bit_src)
- popq %r8
/* Switch to compatibility mode (CS.L = 0 CS.D = 1) via far return */
pushq $__KERNEL32_CS
leaq 0f(%rip), %rax
pushq %rax
lretq
+ /*
+ * The 32-bit code below will do a far jump back to long mode and end
+ * up here after reconfiguring the number of paging levels.
+ */
+.Lret: retq
+
.code32
-0: /* Set up data and stack segments */
- movl $__KERNEL_DS, %eax
- movl %eax, %ds
- movl %eax, %ss
-
- /* Set up new stack */
- leal TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_STACK_END(%edi), %esp
-
- /* Disable paging */
+0: /* Disable paging */
movl %cr0, %eax
btrl $X86_CR0_PG_BIT, %eax
movl %eax, %cr0
@@ -608,26 +603,25 @@ SYM_CODE_START(trampoline_32bit_src)
1:
movl %eax, %cr4
- /* Calculate address of paging_enabled() once we are executing in the trampoline */
- leal .Lpaging_enabled - trampoline_32bit_src + TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_OFFSET(%edi), %eax
-
- /* Prepare the stack for far return to Long Mode */
- pushl $__KERNEL_CS
- pushl %eax
-
/* Enable paging again. */
movl %cr0, %eax
btsl $X86_CR0_PG_BIT, %eax
movl %eax, %cr0
- lret
+ /*
+ * Return to the 64-bit calling code using LJMP rather than LRET, to
+ * avoid the need for a 32-bit addressable stack. The destination
+ * address will be adjusted after the template code is copied into a
+ * 32-bit addressable buffer.
+ */
+.Ljmp: ljmpl $__KERNEL_CS, $(.Lret - trampoline_32bit_src)
SYM_CODE_END(trampoline_32bit_src)
- .code64
-SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(.Lpaging_enabled)
- /* Return from the trampoline */
- jmp *%r8
-SYM_FUNC_END(.Lpaging_enabled)
+/*
+ * This symbol is placed right after trampoline_32bit_src() so its address can
+ * be used to infer the size of the trampoline code.
+ */
+SYM_DATA(trampoline_ljmp_imm_offset, .word .Ljmp + 1 - trampoline_32bit_src)
/*
* The trampoline code has a size limit.
@@ -636,7 +630,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(.Lpaging_enabled)
*/
.org trampoline_32bit_src + TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_SIZE
- .code32
+ .text
SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL_NOALIGN(.Lno_longmode)
/* This isn't an x86-64 CPU, so hang intentionally, we cannot continue */
1:
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h
index 4e8cef135226bcbb..131488f50af55d0a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable.h
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@
#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_PGTABLE_OFFSET 0
#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_OFFSET PAGE_SIZE
-#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_SIZE 0xA0
-
-#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_STACK_END TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_SIZE
+#define TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_SIZE 0x80
#ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
@@ -16,5 +14,7 @@ extern unsigned long *trampoline_32bit;
extern void trampoline_32bit_src(void *trampoline, bool enable_5lvl);
+extern const u16 trampoline_ljmp_imm_offset;
+
#endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
#endif /* BOOT_COMPRESSED_PAGETABLE_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
index 2ac12ff4111bf8c0..d66639c961b8eeda 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static unsigned long find_trampoline_placement(void)
struct paging_config paging_prepare(void *rmode)
{
struct paging_config paging_config = {};
+ void *tramp_code;
/* Initialize boot_params. Required for cmdline_find_option_bool(). */
boot_params = rmode;
@@ -143,9 +144,18 @@ struct paging_config paging_prepare(void *rmode)
memset(trampoline_32bit, 0, TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_SIZE);
/* Copy trampoline code in place */
- memcpy(trampoline_32bit + TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_OFFSET / sizeof(unsigned long),
+ tramp_code = memcpy(trampoline_32bit +
+ TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_OFFSET / sizeof(unsigned long),
&trampoline_32bit_src, TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_CODE_SIZE);
+ /*
+ * Avoid the need for a stack in the 32-bit trampoline code, by using
+ * LJMP rather than LRET to return back to long mode. LJMP takes an
+ * immediate absolute address, which needs to be adjusted based on the
+ * placement of the trampoline.
+ */
+ *(u32 *)(tramp_code + trampoline_ljmp_imm_offset) += (unsigned long)tramp_code;
+
/*
* The code below prepares page table in trampoline memory.
*
--
2.39.2