[tip: x86/boot] x86/kexec: Copy control page into place in machine_kexec_prepare()

From: tip-bot2 for David Woodhouse
Date: Fri Dec 06 2024 - 05:20:53 EST


The following commit has been merged into the x86/boot branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 6a750b4c009936f352aaac0366f5f10fcf51e81b
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/6a750b4c009936f352aaac0366f5f10fcf51e81b
Author: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:05:12
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:41:59 +01:00

x86/kexec: Copy control page into place in machine_kexec_prepare()

There's no need for this to wait until the actual machine_kexec() invocation;
future changes will need to make the control page read-only and executable,
so all writes should be completed before machine_kexec_prepare() returns.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241205153343.3275139-7-dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index 7223c38..3a4cbac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -301,17 +301,16 @@ static void load_segments(void)

int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
{
- unsigned long control_page;
+ void *control_page = page_address(image->control_code_page);
int result;

- /* Calculate the offsets */
- control_page = page_to_pfn(image->control_code_page) << PAGE_SHIFT;
-
/* Setup the identity mapped 64bit page table */
- result = init_pgtable(image, control_page);
+ result = init_pgtable(image, __pa(control_page));
if (result)
return result;

+ __memcpy(control_page, relocate_kernel, KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_MAX_SIZE);
+
return 0;
}

@@ -363,7 +362,6 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
}

control_page = page_address(image->control_code_page);
- __memcpy(control_page, relocate_kernel, KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_MAX_SIZE);

page_list[PA_CONTROL_PAGE] = virt_to_phys(control_page);
page_list[VA_CONTROL_PAGE] = (unsigned long)control_page;