linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] kexec_file: make an use of purgatory optional

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Message-ID: <20180302061114.GE15422@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Mar 2018 14:11:14 +0800
From:   Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:     AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
Cc:     vgoyal@...hat.com, bhe@...hat.com, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, prudo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] kexec_file: make an use of purgatory optional

On 03/02/18 at 01:58pm, Dave Young wrote:
> On 02/27/18 at 01:48pm, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > On arm64, crash dump kernel's usable memory is protected by
> > *unmapping* it from kernel virtual space unlike other architectures
> > where the region is just made read-only. It is highly unlikely that
> > the region is accidentally corrupted and this observation rationalizes
> > that digest check code can also be dropped from purgatory.
> > The resulting code is so simple as it doesn't require a bit ugly
> > re-linking/relocation stuff, i.e. arch_kexec_apply_relocations_add().
> > 
> > Please see:
> >    http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-December/545428.html
> > All that the purgatory does is to shuffle arguments and jump into a new
> > kernel, while we still need to have some space for a hash value
> > (purgatory_sha256_digest) which is never checked against.
> > 
> > As such, it doesn't make sense to have trampline code between old kernel
> > and new kernel on arm64.
> > 
> > This patch introduces a new configuration, ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY, and
> > allows related code to be compiled in only if necessary.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
> > Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 3 +++
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig     | 3 +++
> >  kernel/kexec_file.c  | 6 ++++++
> >  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > index 73ce5dd07642..c32a181a7cbb 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > @@ -552,6 +552,9 @@ config KEXEC_FILE
> >  	  for kernel and initramfs as opposed to a list of segments as is the
> >  	  case for the older kexec call.
> >  
> > +config ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
> > +	def_bool KEXEC_FILE
> > +
> >  config RELOCATABLE
> >  	bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
> >  	depends on PPC64 || (FLATMEM && (44x || FSL_BOOKE))
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > index c1236b187824..f031c3efe47e 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > @@ -2019,6 +2019,9 @@ config KEXEC_FILE
> >  	  for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as
> >  	  accepted by previous system call.
> >  
> > +config ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
> > +	def_bool KEXEC_FILE
> > +
> >  config KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG
> >  	bool "Verify kernel signature during kexec_file_load() syscall"
> >  	depends on KEXEC_FILE
> > diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > index e5bcd94c1efb..990adae52151 100644
> > --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > @@ -26,7 +26,11 @@
> >  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> >  #include "kexec_internal.h"
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
> >  static int kexec_calculate_store_digests(struct kimage *image);
> > +#else
> > +static int kexec_calculate_store_digests(struct kimage *image) { return 0; };
> > +#endif
> >  
> >  /* Architectures can provide this probe function */
> >  int __weak arch_kexec_kernel_image_probe(struct kimage *image, void *buf,
> > @@ -520,6 +524,7 @@ int kexec_add_buffer(struct kexec_buf *kbuf)
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY
> >  /* Calculate and store the digest of segments */
> >  static int kexec_calculate_store_digests(struct kimage *image)
> >  {
> > @@ -1022,3 +1027,4 @@ int kexec_purgatory_get_set_symbol(struct kimage *image, const char *name,
> >  
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY */
> > -- 
> > 2.16.2
> > 
> 
> For this one, I think purgatory digest verification is still good to
> have, but I do not insist since this is arch specific.
> 
> If nobody else objects then I think I can ack the series after some
> testing passed.

For the #ifdefs, they can be changed to IS_ENABLED like other similar
thing.

> 
> Thanks
> Dave