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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:55:42 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com" <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>,
        Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
        "fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com" <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] x86/boot/KASLR: exclude EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_* and
 EFI_LOADER_* from KASLR's choice

On 08/28/17 at 07:44am, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> From 93182d1d8c2ce11232f7686c01dc16ee96e062c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:30:59 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH v5] x86/boot/KASLR: exclude EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_* and EFI_LOADER_*
>  from KASLR's choice
> 
> KASLR chooses kernel location from E820_TYPE_RAM regions by walking over
> e820 entries now. E820_TYPE_RAM includes EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE and
> EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA, so those regions can be the target. According to
> UEFI spec, all memory regions marked as EfiBootServicesCode and
> EfiBootServicesData are available for free memory after the first call
> of ExitBootServices(). So such regions should be usable for kernel on
> spec basis.
> 
> In x86, however, we have some workaround for broken 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 == EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE ||
> 			md->type == 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 free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>

Thanks, looks good to me. Ack it.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>

> ---
> v4 -> v5:
> - addressed why EFI_LOADER_* is excluded.
> - changed patch subject.
> 
> v3 -> v4:
> - update comment and patch description to mention why only
>   EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY is chosen.
> - use efi_early_memdesc_ptr()
> - I decided not to post cleanup patches (patch 2/2 in previous series)
>   because it's not necessary to fix the issue.
> 
> v2 -> v3:
> - skip EFI_LOADER_CODE and EFI_LOADER_DATA in region scan
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> - switch efi_mirror_found to local variable
> - insert break when EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE found
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
> index 7de23bb279ce..ba5e9e5aaa89 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
> @@ -597,19 +597,36 @@ 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);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * According to spec, EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_{CODE|DATA} are also
> +		 * available for kernel image, but we don't include them for
> +		 * the workaround for buggy firmware.
> +		 * 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
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>