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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2017-08-28 16:30:59 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-08-31 12:00:35 +0200
commit0982adc746736a313dac9cb8cc936ca51ca3741a (patch)
treeb984738e85e11bcd52872329bf44735ded507ac0 /arch/x86/boot
parentc05cd79750fbe5415cda896bb99350603cc995ed (diff)
downloadlinux-0982adc746736a313dac9cb8cc936ca51ca3741a.tar.bz2
x86/boot/KASLR: Work around firmware bugs by excluding EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_* and EFI_LOADER_* from KASLR's choice
There's a potential bug in how we select the KASLR kernel address n the early boot code. The KASLR boot code currently chooses the kernel image's physical memory location from E820_TYPE_RAM regions by walking over all e820 entries. E820_TYPE_RAM includes EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA as well, so those regions can end up hosting the kernel image. According to the UEFI spec, all memory regions marked as EfiBootServicesCode and EfiBootServicesData are available as free memory after the first call to ExitBootServices(). I.e. so such regions should be usable for the kernel, per spec. In real life however, we have workarounds for broken x86 firmware, where we keep such regions reserved until SetVirtualAddressMap() is done. See the following code in should_map_region(): static bool should_map_region(efi_memory_desc_t *md) { ... /* * Map boot services regions as a workaround for buggy * firmware that accesses them even when they shouldn't. * * See efi_{reserve,free}_boot_services(). */ if (md->type =3D=3D EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE || md->type =3D=3D EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA) return false; This workaround suppressed a boot crash, but potential issues still remain because no one prevents the regions from overlapping with kernel image by KASLR. So let's make sure that EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_{CODE|DATA} regions are never chosen as kernel memory for the workaround to work fine. Furthermore, EFI_LOADER_{CODE|DATA} regions are also excluded because they can be used after ExitBootServices() as defined in EFI spec. As a result, we choose kernel address only from EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY which is the only memory type we know to be safely free. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170828074444.GC23181@hori1.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp [ Rewrote/fixed/clarified the changelog and the in code comments. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c40
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
index 7de23bb279ce..17818ba6906f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
@@ -597,19 +597,41 @@ process_efi_entries(unsigned long minimum, unsigned long image_size)
for (i = 0; i < nr_desc; i++) {
md = efi_early_memdesc_ptr(pmap, e->efi_memdesc_size, i);
if (md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE) {
- region.start = md->phys_addr;
- region.size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
- process_mem_region(&region, minimum, image_size);
efi_mirror_found = true;
-
- if (slot_area_index == MAX_SLOT_AREA) {
- debug_putstr("Aborted EFI scan (slot_areas full)!\n");
- break;
- }
+ break;
}
}
- return efi_mirror_found;
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_desc; i++) {
+ md = efi_early_memdesc_ptr(pmap, e->efi_memdesc_size, i);
+
+ /*
+ * Here we are more conservative in picking free memory than
+ * the EFI spec allows:
+ *
+ * According to the spec, EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_{CODE|DATA} are also
+ * free memory and thus available to place the kernel image into,
+ * but in practice there's firmware where using that memory leads
+ * to crashes.
+ *
+ * Only EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY is guaranteed to be free.
+ */
+ if (md->type != EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY)
+ continue;
+
+ if (efi_mirror_found &&
+ !(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE))
+ continue;
+
+ region.start = md->phys_addr;
+ region.size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
+ process_mem_region(&region, minimum, image_size);
+ if (slot_area_index == MAX_SLOT_AREA) {
+ debug_putstr("Aborted EFI scan (slot_areas full)!\n");
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ return true;
}
#else
static inline bool