linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: kaslr to avoid setup

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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2014 16:09:26 +0800
From:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:	keescook@...omium.org, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: kaslr to avoid setup_data regions

On 05/14/14 at 03:49pm, Dave Young wrote:
> X86 will pass setup_data region while necessary, these regions could be
> overwitten by kernel due to kaslr.
> 
> Thus iterate and add setup regions to mem_avoid[] in this patch.
> Set max mem avoid entries 32, hopefully it will be enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c
> @@ -110,8 +110,9 @@ struct mem_vector {
>  	unsigned long size;
>  };
>  
> -#define MEM_AVOID_MAX 5
> +#define MEM_AVOID_MAX 32
>  static struct mem_vector mem_avoid[MEM_AVOID_MAX];
> +static int mem_avoid_nr;
>  
>  static bool mem_contains(struct mem_vector *region, struct mem_vector *item)
>  {
> @@ -135,6 +136,28 @@ static bool mem_overlaps(struct mem_vect
>  	return true;
>  }
>  
> +static void mem_avoid_setup_data(void)
> +{
> +	struct setup_data *data;
> +	u64 pa_data;
> +
> +	if (mem_avoid_nr >= MEM_AVOID_MAX) {
> +		debug_putstr("KASLR: too many setup_data ranges.\n");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	pa_data = real_mode->hdr.setup_data;
> +	while (pa_data) {
> +		data = (struct setup_data *)pa_data;
> +		if (pa_data < CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET) {
> +			mem_avoid[mem_avoid_nr].start = pa_data;
> +			mem_avoid[mem_avoid_nr].size = sizeof(*data) + data->len;
> +			mem_avoid_nr++;
> +		}
> +		pa_data = data->next;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  static void mem_avoid_init(unsigned long input, unsigned long input_size,
>  			   unsigned long output, unsigned long output_size)
>  {
> @@ -177,6 +200,9 @@ static void mem_avoid_init(unsigned long
>  	/* Avoid stack memory. */
>  	mem_avoid[4].start = (unsigned long)free_mem_end_ptr;
>  	mem_avoid[4].size = BOOT_STACK_SIZE;
> +	mem_avoid_nr = 5;
> +
> +	mem_avoid_setup_data();
>  }
>  
>  /* Does this memory vector overlap a known avoided area? */

Please ignore this one, sent the right version as V2. The difference is V2
updated to iterate mem_avoid_nr instead of MEM_AVOID_MAX.

Thanks
Dave
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