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Message-ID: <20180312074218.GA4125@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:42:18 +0800
From: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To: Philipp Rudo <prudo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] kexec_file: Remove mis-use of sh_offset field
Hi Philipp,
On 03/09/18 at 11:02am, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 11:14:20 +0800
> Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > On 02/26/18 at 04:16pm, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> > > The current code uses the sh_offset field in purgatory_info->sechdrs to
> > > store a pointer to the current load address of the section. Depending
> > > whether the section will be loaded or not this is either a pointer into
> > > purgatory_info->purgatory_buf or kexec_purgatory. This is not only a
> > > violation of the ELF standard but also makes the code very hard to
> > > understand as you cannot tell if the memory you are using is read-only or
> > > not.
> > >
> > > Remove this mis-use and store the offset of the section in
> > > pugaroty_info->purgatory_buf in sh_offset.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > > arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 10 ++++++----
> > > kernel/kexec_file.c | 33 +++------------------------------
> > > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> > > index 51667c8b5c9b..41db74bdc88b 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> > > @@ -457,13 +457,15 @@ int arch_kexec_apply_relocations_add(struct purgatory_info *pi,
> > > * rel[i].r_offset contains byte offset from beginning
> > > * of section to the storage unit affected.
> > > *
> > > - * This is location to update (->sh_offset). This is temporary
> > > - * buffer where section is currently loaded. This will finally
> > > - * be loaded to a different address later, pointed to by
> > > + * This is location to update. This is temporary buffer
> > > + * where section is currently loaded. This will finally be
> > > + * loaded to a different address later, pointed to by
> > > * ->sh_addr. kexec takes care of moving it
> > > * (kexec_load_segment()).
> > > */
> > > - location = (void *)(section->sh_offset + rel[i].r_offset);
> > > + location = pi->purgatory_buf;
> > > + location += section->sh_offset;
> > > + location += rel[i].r_offset;
> > >
> > > /* Final address of the location */
> > > address = section->sh_addr + rel[i].r_offset;
> > > diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > > index 746b91e46e34..25b44d1a664a 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> > > @@ -736,28 +736,6 @@ static int kexec_purgatory_setup_sechdrs(struct purgatory_info *pi,
> > > pi->ehdr->e_shnum * sizeof(Elf_Shdr));
> > > pi->sechdrs = sechdrs;
> > >
> > > - /*
> > > - * We seem to have multiple copies of sections. First copy is which
> > > - * is embedded in kernel in read only section. Some of these sections
> > > - * will be copied to a temporary buffer and relocated. And these
> > > - * sections will finally be copied to their final destination at
> > > - * segment load time.
> >
> > It would be good to keep above part comment somewhere..
>
> there is a comment in include/linux/kexec.h for the purgatory_info->sechdrs
> field saying
>
> Temporary, modifiable buffer for sechdrs used for relocation.
> This memory can be freed post image load
>
> When you think this is not enough i can add a comment here like
>
> The section headers in kexec_purgatory are read-only. In order to have them
> modifiable make a temporary copy.
Looks better to add above comment here.
>
> What do you think.
>
> Thanks
> Philipp
>
> > > - *
> > > - * Use ->sh_offset to reflect section address in memory. It will
> > > - * point to original read only copy if section is not allocatable.
> > > - * Otherwise it will point to temporary copy which will be relocated.
> > > - *
> > > - * Use ->sh_addr to contain final address of the section where it
> > > - * will go during execution time.
> > > - */
> > > - for (i = 0; i < pi->ehdr->e_shnum; i++) {
> > > - if (sechdrs[i].sh_type == SHT_NOBITS)
> > > - continue;
> > > -
> > > - sechdrs[i].sh_offset = (unsigned long)pi->ehdr +
> > > - sechdrs[i].sh_offset;
> > > - }
> > > -
> > > offset = 0;
> > > bss_addr = kbuf->mem + kbuf->bufsz;
> > > kbuf->image->start = pi->ehdr->e_entry;
> > > @@ -786,17 +764,12 @@ static int kexec_purgatory_setup_sechdrs(struct purgatory_info *pi,
> > > kbuf->image->start += kbuf->mem + offset;
> > > }
> > >
> > > - src = (void *)sechdrs[i].sh_offset;
> > > + src = (void *)pi->ehdr + sechdrs[i].sh_offset;
> > > dst = pi->purgatory_buf + offset;
> > > memcpy(dst, src, sechdrs[i].sh_size);
> > >
> > > sechdrs[i].sh_addr = kbuf->mem + offset;
> > > -
> > > - /*
> > > - * This section got copied to temporary buffer. Update
> > > - * ->sh_offset accordingly.
> > > - */
> > > - sechdrs[i].sh_offset = (unsigned long)dst;
> > > + sechdrs[i].sh_offset = offset;
> > > offset += sechdrs[i].sh_size;
> > > }
> > >
> > > @@ -1006,7 +979,7 @@ int kexec_purgatory_get_set_symbol(struct kimage *image, const char *name,
> > > return -EINVAL;
> > > }
> > >
> > > - sym_buf = (char *)sec->sh_offset + sym->st_value;
> > > + sym_buf = (char *)pi->purgatory_buf + sec->sh_offset + sym->st_value;
> > >
> > > if (get_value)
> > > memcpy((void *)buf, sym_buf, size);
> > > --
> > > 2.13.5
> > >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave
> >
>
Thanks
Dave
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