linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86_64, vmcoreinfo: Append 'page_offset

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Date:   Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:16:25 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bhupesh SHARMA <bhupesh.linux@...il.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@...jp.nec.com>,
        Dave Anderson <anderson@...hat.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86_64, vmcoreinfo: Append 'page_offset_base' to vmcoreinfo

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 3:39 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> + Kees.
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:17:49AM +0530, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
>> x86_64 kernel uses 'page_offset_base' variable to point to the
>> start of direct mapping of all physical memory. This variable
>> is also updated for KASLR boot cases, so this can be exported
>> via vmcoreinfo as a standard ABI between kernel and user-space,
>> to allow user-space utilities to use the same for calculating
>> the start of direct mapping of all physical memory.

Why is KERNELOFFSET= not sufficient?

See commit b6085a865762 ("x86, kaslr: export offset in VMCOREINFO ELF notes")

+       vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n",
+                             (unsigned long)&_text - __START_KERNEL);

-Kees

>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
>> index 4c8acdfdc5a7..6161d77c5bfb 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
>> @@ -356,6 +356,9 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
>>       VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(init_top_pgt);
>>       vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(pgtable_l5_enabled)=%d\n",
>>                       pgtable_l5_enabled());
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
>> +     VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(page_offset_base);
>> +#endif
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>>       VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(node_data);

-- 
Kees Cook