Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] efi/x86: Fix EFI memory map corruption with kexec

From: Dave Young
Date: Tue Jun 04 2024 - 21:48:24 EST


On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 06:36, Kalra, Ashish <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Re-sending as the earlier response got line-wrapped.
>
> On 6/3/2024 12:12 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 12:08:48PM -0500, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
> >> efi_arch_mem_reserve().
> > Now it only remains for you to explain why...
>
> Here is a detailed explanation of what is causing the EFI memory map corruption, with added debug logs and memblock debugging enabled:
>
> Initially at boot, efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range() does early_memremap() of the EFI memory map passed as part of setup_data, as the following logs show:
>
> ...
>
> [ 0.000000] efi: in efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range, phys map 0x27fff9110
> [ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x000000027fff9110-0x000000027fffa12f] efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range+0x168/0x2a0
>
> ...
>
> Later, efi_arch_mem_reserve() is invoked, which calls efi_memmap_alloc() which does memblock_phys_alloc() to insert new EFI memory descriptor into efi.memap:
>
> ...
>
> [ 0.733263] memblock_reserve: [0x000000027ffcaf80-0x000000027ffcbfff] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xf1/0x1b0
> [ 0.734787] efi: efi_arch_mem_reserve, efi phys map 0x27ffcaf80
>
> ...
>
> Finally, at the end of boot, kexec_enter_virtual_mode() is called.
>
> It does mapping of efi regions which were passed via setup_data.
>
> So it unregisters the early mem-remapped EFI memmap and installs the new EFI memory map as below:
>
> ( Because of efi_arch_mem_reserve() getting invoked, the new EFI memmap phys base being remapped now is the memblock allocation done in efi_arch_mem_reserve()).
>
> [ 4.042160] efi: efi memmap phys map 0x27ffcaf80
>
> So, kexec_enter_virtual_mode() does the following :
>
> if (efi_memmap_init_late(efi.memmap.phys_map, <- refers to the new EFI memmap phys base allocated via memblock in efi_arch_mem_reserve().
> efi.memmap.desc_size * efi.memmap.nr_map)) { ...
>
> This late init, does a memremap() on this memblock-allocated memory, but then immediately frees it :
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/memmap.c:
>
> int __init __efi_memmap_init(struct efi_memory_map_data *data)
> {
>
> ..
>
> phys_map = data->phys_map; <- refers to the new EFI memmap phys base allocated via memblock in efi_arch_mem_reserve().
>
> if (data->flags & EFI_MEMMAP_LATE)
> map.map = memremap(phys_map, data->size, MEMREMAP_WB);
> ...
> ...
> if (efi.memmap.flags & (EFI_MEMMAP_MEMBLOCK | EFI_MEMMAP_SLAB)) {
> __efi_memmap_free(efi.memmap.phys_map,
> efi.memmap.desc_size * efi.memmap.nr_map, efi.memmap.flags);
> }

>From your debugging the memmap should not be freed. This piece of
code was added in below commit, added Dan Williams in cc list:
commit f0ef6523475f18ccd213e22ee593dfd131a2c5ea
Author: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jan 13 18:22:44 2020 +0100

efi: Fix efi_memmap_alloc() leaks

With efi_fake_memmap() and efi_arch_mem_reserve() the efi table may be
updated and replaced multiple times. When that happens a previous
dynamically allocated efi memory map can be garbage collected. Use the
new EFI_MEMMAP_{SLAB,MEMBLOCK} flags to detect when a dynamically
allocated memory map is being replaced.


>
> ...
> map.phys_map = data->phys_map;
>
> ...
>
> efi.memmap = map;
>
> ...
>
> This happens as kexec_enter_virtual_mode() can only handle the early mapped EFI memmap and not the one which is memblock allocated by efi_arch_mem_reserve(). As seen above this memblock allocated (EFI_MEMMAP_MEMBLOCK tagged) memory gets freed.
>
> This is confirmed by memblock debugging:
>
> [ 4.044057] memblock_free_late: [0x000000027ffcaf80-0x000000027ffcbfff] __efi_memmap_free+0x66/0x80
>
> So while this memory is memremapped, it has also been freed and then it gets into a use-after-free condition and subsequently gets corrupted.
>
> This corruption is seen just before kexec-ing into the new kernel:
>
> ...
> [ 11.045522] PEFILE: Unsigned PE binary^M
> [ 11.060801] kexec-bzImage64: efi memmap phys map 0x27ffcaf80^M
> ...
> [ 11.061220] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 11, va = 0xfffffffeffc00000, pa = 0xffc00000, np = 0x400, attr = 0x8000000000000001^M
> [ 11.061225] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 6, va = 0xfffffffeffb04000, pa = 0x7f704000, np = 0x84, attr = 0x800000000000000f^M
> [ 11.061228] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 4, va = 0xfffffffeff700000, pa = 0x7f100000, np = 0x300, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061231] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M <- CORRUPTION!!!
> [ 11.061234] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061236] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061239] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061241] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061243] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061245] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061248] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061250] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061252] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061255] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061257] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061259] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061262] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061264] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061266] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061268] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061271] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061273] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061275] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061278] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061280] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061282] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061284] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061287] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061289] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061291] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061294] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061296] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061298] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061301] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061303] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061305] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061307] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061310] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061312] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061314] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 14080, va = 0x14f29, pa = 0x36c0, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061317] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 85808, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x72, attr = 0x14f40^M
> [ 11.061320] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x14f4b, pa = 0x65, np = 0x1, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061323] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 85840, va = 0x0, pa = 0x2, np = 0x69, attr = 0x14f59^M
> [ 11.061325] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 0, va = 0x14f65, pa = 0x6c, np = 0x0, attr = 0x0^M
> [ 11.061328] kexec-bzImage64: mmap entry, type = 85871, va = 0x0, pa = 0x0, np = 0x7a, attr = 0x14f7f^M
>
>
> ...
>
> This EFI phys map address 0x27ffcaf80 is being mem-remapped and also getting freed and then in use after free condition (while setting up the EFI memory map for the next kernel with kexec -s) in the above logs confirm the use-after-free case.
>
> Looking at the above code flow, it makes sense to skip efi_arch_mem_reserve() to fix this issue, as it anyway needs to be skipped for kexec case.
>
> Thanks, Ashish
>