linux-kernel - [PATCH -v3 3/7] kexec jump: check code size in control page

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Message-Id: <1218510868.24951.42.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:14:28 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, nigel@...el.suspend2.net,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, mingo@...e.hu,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH -v3 3/7] kexec jump: check code size in control page

Kexec/Kexec-jump require code size in control page is less than
PAGE_SIZE/2. This patch add link-time checking for this.

ASSERT() of ld link script is used as the link-time checking
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c   |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_32.S |   10 +++++++---
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S     |    6 ++++++
 include/asm-x86/kexec.h              |    4 ++++
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 	}
 
 	control_page = page_address(image->control_code_page);
-	memcpy(control_page, relocate_kernel, PAGE_SIZE/2);
+	memcpy(control_page, relocate_kernel, KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_MAX_SIZE);
 
 	relocate_kernel_ptr = control_page;
 	page_list[PA_CONTROL_PAGE] = __pa(control_page);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_32.S
@@ -20,10 +20,11 @@
 #define PAGE_ATTR (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY)
 #define PAE_PGD_ATTR (_PAGE_PRESENT)
 
-/* control_page + PAGE_SIZE/2 ~ control_page + PAGE_SIZE * 3/4 are
- * used to save some data for jumping back
+/* control_page + KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_MAX_SIZE
+ * ~ control_page + PAGE_SIZE are used as data storage and stack for
+ * jumping back
  */
-#define DATA(offset)		(PAGE_SIZE/2+(offset))
+#define DATA(offset)		(KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_MAX_SIZE+(offset))
 
 /* Minimal CPU state */
 #define ESP			DATA(0x0)
@@ -376,3 +377,6 @@ swap_pages:
 	popl	%ebx
 	popl	%ebp
 	ret
+
+	.globl kexec_control_code_size
+.set kexec_control_code_size, . - relocate_kernel
--- a/include/asm-x86/kexec.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/kexec.h
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
 # define PAGES_NR		17
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+# define KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_MAX_SIZE	2048
+#endif
+
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
 #include <linux/string.h>
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
@@ -209,3 +209,9 @@ SECTIONS
 
   DWARF_DEBUG
 }
+
+/* Link time checks */
+#include <asm/kexec.h>
+
+ASSERT(kexec_control_code_size <= KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_MAX_SIZE,
+       "kexec control code size is too big")


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