Re: [PATCH v8 13/13] acpi/ghes: check if the BIOS pointers for HEST are correct

[Igor Mammedov]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:37:45 +0200
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The OS kernels navigate between HEST, error source struct
> and CPER by the usage of some pointers. Double-check if such
> pointers were properly initializing, ensuring that they match
> the right address for CPER.

as QEMU, we don't care about what guest wrote into those addresses
(aka it's not hw businesses), even if later qemu will trample
on wrong guest memory (it's guest responsibility to do init right).

However this patch introduces usage for hest_addr_le, that I was looking for.
See notes below.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  hw/acpi/ghes.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/acpi/ghes.c b/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> index a822a5eafaa0..51e2e40e5a9c 100644
> --- a/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> +++ b/hw/acpi/ghes.c
> @@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ enum AcpiHestSourceId {
>  #define HEST_GHES_V2_TABLE_SIZE  92
>  #define GHES_ACK_OFFSET          (64 + GAS_ADDR_OFFSET + ACPI_HEST_HEADER_SIZE)
>  
> +/* ACPI 6.2: 18.3.2.7: Generic Hardware Error Source */
> +#define GHES_ERR_ST_ADDR_OFFSET  (20 + GAS_ADDR_OFFSET + ACPI_HEST_HEADER_SIZE)
> +
>  /*
>   * Values for error_severity field
>   */
> @@ -425,7 +428,10 @@ NotifierList acpi_generic_error_notifiers =
>  void ghes_record_cper_errors(const void *cper, size_t len,
>                               enum AcpiGhesNotifyType notify, Error **errp)
>  {
> -    uint64_t cper_addr, read_ack_start_addr;
> +    uint64_t hest_read_ack_start_addr, read_ack_start_addr;
> +    uint64_t read_ack_start_addr_2, err_source_struct;
> +    uint64_t hest_err_block_addr, error_block_addr;
> +    uint64_t cper_addr, cper_addr_2;
>      enum AcpiHestSourceId source;
>      AcpiGedState *acpi_ged_state;
>      AcpiGhesState *ags;
> @@ -450,6 +456,28 @@ void ghes_record_cper_errors(const void *cper, size_t len,
>      cper_addr += ACPI_HEST_SRC_ID_COUNT * sizeof(uint64_t);
>      cper_addr += source * ACPI_GHES_MAX_RAW_DATA_LENGTH;
>  
> +    err_source_struct = le64_to_cpu(ags->hest_addr_le) +
> +                        source * HEST_GHES_V2_TABLE_SIZE;

there is no guaranties that HEST table will contain only GHESv2 sources,
and once such is added this place becomes broken.

we need to iterate over HEST taking that into account
and find only ghesv2 structure with source id of interest.

This function (and acpi_ghes_record_errors() as well) taking source_id
as input should be able to lookup pointers from HEST in guest RAM,
very crude idea could look something like this:

typedef struct hest_source_type2len{
   uint16_t type
   int len
} hest_structure_type2len

hest_structure_type2len supported_hest_sources[] = {
    /* Table 18-344 Generic Hardware Error Source version 2 (GHESv2) Structure */
    {.type = 10, .len = 92},
}

uint64_t find_error_source(src_id) {
    uint32_t struct_offset = hest_header_size;
    uint16_t type, id
    do {
       addr = ags->hest_addr_le + struct_offset
 
       cpu_physical_memory_read(addr, &id)
       if (src_id == id)
         return addr

       cpu_physical_memory_read(addr, &type)
       struct_offset ++= get_len_from_supported_hest_sources(type)
    while(struct_offset < hest_len)
    assert if not found
}

unit64_t get_error_status_block_addr(src_id) {
   struct_addr = find_error_source(src_id) 
   hest_err_block_addr =   struct_addr + GHES_ERR_ST_ADDR_OFFSET
   // read intermediate pointer to status block addr pointer in hw table
   cpu_physical_memory_read(hest_err_block_addr, &error_block_addr)
   // read actual pointer to status block
   cpu_physical_memory_read(error_block_addr, &error_status_block_addr)
   return error_status_block_addr
}
 
ditto for read_ack modulo indirection that we have for error_status_block_addr

This way we can easily map source id to error status block
and find needed addresses using pointer info from guest RAM
without fragile pointer math and assumptions which might go wrong
when new error sources are added and regardless of the order they
are being added.

> +    /* Check if BIOS addr pointers were properly generated */
> +
> +    hest_err_block_addr = err_source_struct + GHES_ERR_ST_ADDR_OFFSET;
> +    hest_read_ack_start_addr = err_source_struct + GHES_ACK_OFFSET;
> +
> +    cpu_physical_memory_read(hest_err_block_addr, &error_block_addr,
> +                             sizeof(error_block_addr));
> +
> +    cpu_physical_memory_read(error_block_addr, &cper_addr_2,
> +                             sizeof(error_block_addr));
> +
> +    cpu_physical_memory_read(hest_read_ack_start_addr, &read_ack_start_addr_2,
> +			     sizeof(read_ack_start_addr_2));
> +
> +    assert(cper_addr == cper_addr_2);
> +    assert(read_ack_start_addr == read_ack_start_addr_2);
> +
> +    /* Update ACK offset to notify about a new error */
> +
>      cpu_physical_memory_read(read_ack_start_addr,
>                               &read_ack, sizeof(uint64_t));
>