linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible

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Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 11:51:00 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Coiby Xu <coxu@...hat.com>
Cc: kexec@...ts.infradead.org, Ondrej Kozina <okozina@...hat.com>,
	Milan Broz <gmazyland@...il.com>,
	Thomas Staudt <tstaudt@...ibm.com>,
	Daniel P . Berrangé <berrange@...hat.com>,
	Kairui Song <ryncsn@...il.com>,
	. Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora@...hat.com>,
	Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt
 keys inaccessible

On 04/25/24 at 06:04pm, Coiby Xu wrote:
> This adds an addition layer of protection for the saved copy of dm
> crypt key. Trying to access the saved copy will cause page fault.
> 
> Suggested-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> index b180d8e497c3..fc0a80f4254e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> @@ -545,13 +545,34 @@ static void kexec_mark_crashkres(bool protect)
>  	kexec_mark_range(control, crashk_res.end, protect);
>  }
>  
> +static void kexec_mark_dm_crypt_keys(bool protect)
> +{
> +	unsigned long start_paddr, end_paddr;
> +	unsigned int nr_pages;
> +
> +	if (kexec_crash_image->dm_crypt_keys_addr) {
> +		start_paddr = kexec_crash_image->dm_crypt_keys_addr;
> +		end_paddr = start_paddr + kexec_crash_image->dm_crypt_keys_sz - 1;
> +		nr_pages = (PAGE_ALIGN(end_paddr) - PAGE_ALIGN_DOWN(start_paddr))/PAGE_SIZE;
> +		if (protect)
> +			set_memory_np((unsigned long)phys_to_virt(start_paddr), nr_pages);
> +		else
> +			__set_memory_prot(
> +				(unsigned long)phys_to_virt(start_paddr),
> +				nr_pages,
> +				__pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_NX | _PAGE_RW));
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  void arch_kexec_protect_crashkres(void)
>  {
>  	kexec_mark_crashkres(true);
> +	kexec_mark_dm_crypt_keys(true);

Really? Are all x86 systems having this dm_crypt_keys and need be
handled in kdump?

>  }
>  
>  void arch_kexec_unprotect_crashkres(void)
>  {
> +	kexec_mark_dm_crypt_keys(false);
>  	kexec_mark_crashkres(false);
>  }
>  #endif
> -- 
> 2.44.0
>