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

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Date:   Wed, 28 Nov 2018 07:29:16 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@...jp.nec.com>,
        Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@...hat.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>,
        Dave Anderson <anderson@...hat.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Bhupesh SHARMA <bhupesh.linux@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86_64, vmcoreinfo: Append 'page_offset_base' to
 vmcoreinfo

On 11/27/18 at 02:16pm, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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);

KERNELOFFSET is virtual address delta after kernel text KASLR, namely
the offset from the original default kernel text virtual address,
0xffffffff88000000.

While after memory region KASLR in kernel_randomize_memory(), the
starting address of the direct mapping of physical memory, PAGE_OFFSET,
is changed too. We need get it to analyze memory in makedumpfile/crash.
Currently we deduce it from elf program segment of kcore:
Program Headers:
  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
......

  LOAD           0x00000a62c0004000 0xffff8a62c0001000 0x0000000000001000
                 0x000000000009c000 0x000000000009c000  RWE    1000

page_offset = 0xffff8a62c0001000 - 0x0000000000001000;
Since we put the direct mapping segments at the bottom part of kcore, we
can always get page_offset right.

Thanks
Baoquan

> 
> -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
> 
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