Re: [Resend][PATCH] x86/power/64: Always create temporary identity mapping correctly

From: Thomas Garnier
Date: Tue Aug 09 2016 - 12:29:07 EST


On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, Thomas Garnier wrote:
>>
>>> >> Okay, I did one-by-one reverts, and the one above, i.e.
>>> >>
>>> >> commit 021182e52fe01c1f7b126f97fd6ba048dc4234fd
>>> >> Author: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >> Date: Tue Jun 21 17:47:03 2016 -0700
>>> >>
>>> >> x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions
>>> >>
>>> >> is the one that is the culprit on my machine. With this one reverted,
>>> >> resume hibernation doesn't reboot (tripple fault?), but proceeds
>>> >> succesfully.
>>>
>>> My .config is attached. It is basically defconfig (x86_64) + kvmconfig
>>> plus the following:
>>>
>>> CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
>>> CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
>>> CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y
>>> CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS=y
>>> CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x1000000
>>> CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY=y
>>> CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING=0xa
>>> CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP_CORE=y
>>> CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP=y
>>> CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
>>> CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
>>> CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU=y
>>> CONFIG_KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE=y
>>> CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS=y
>>> CONFIG_KGDB=y
>>> CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
>>> CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP=y
>>> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
>>> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4=y
>>
>> The config I am reproducing the bug with (on thinkpad x200s) can be found
>> at
>>
>> http://www.jikos.cz/jikos/junk/.config
>>
>> Either later today or tomorrow I could test with the same physical start
>> and align values you're using to see whether that'd make any difference.
>>
>>> > As discussed with Rafael privately, I also tried this very patch
>>> > (x86/power/64: Always create temporary identity mapping correctly) on top
>>> > of the reverted revert of 021182e52fe01c1f7b1 (see the full log below),
>>> > but such kernel triple faults on resume as well.
>>> >
>>> > 87c38d2 x86/power/64: Always create temporary identity mapping correctly
>>> > 3cb504a Revert "Revert "x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions""
>>> > 758850d Revert "x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions"
>>> > 4a02dfb Revert "x86/mm: Enable KASLR for vmalloc memory regions"
>>> > 037863f Revert "x86/mm: Add memory hotplug support for KASLR memory randomization"
>>> > 3416a21 Revert "x86/mm: Do not reference phys addr beyond kernel"
>>> > 69227be Revert "mm: reorganize SLAB freelist randomization"
>>> > a1d8d71 Revert "mm: SLUB freelist randomization"
>>> >
>>> > IOW, 021182e52f introduces a bug for which there is no existing fix yet.
>>>
>>> You mean it is something different from the previous KASLR bugs we saw?
>>
>> No, I just wanted to explicitly point out that "x86/power/64: Always
>> create temporary identity mapping correctly" is not a fix for this issue.
>
> It is better to say that the $subject patch is not sufficient to fix
> it, because I'm quite confident that it is necessary for that. :-)
>
> Without the $subject patch kernel_ident_mapping_init() makes
> assumptions that simply are not met in the randomized identity mapping
> base case. Moreover, hibernation works for Thomas with $subject patch
> applied, but it doesn't without it.
>
> So there is something else that we are missing.
>
> I have a murky suspicion, but it is really weird. Namely, what if
> restore_jump_address in set_up_temporary_text_mapping() happens to be
> covered by the restore kernel's identity mapping? Then, the image
> kernel's entry point may get overwritten by something else in
> core_restore_code().
>
> But is this possible even? Thomas?

I had a similar theory before when I was investigating the original
crash. How is it avoided even without KASLR?

Given the space for the physical memory mapping, I doubt this issue
would happen all the time though.

>
> Anyway, I'll try to reproduce this issue later today.
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael