Re: [PATCH] arm64: Add support to supply 'kaslr-seed' to secondary kernel

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Hello Akashi,

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:35 AM, Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Akashi,
>
> Thanks for the review comments.
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 8:00 AM, AKASHI Takahiro
> <takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Bhupesh,
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 01:49:40AM +0530, Bhupesh Sharma wrote:
>>> This patch adds the support to supply 'kaslr-seed' to secondary kernel,
>>> when we do a 'kexec warm reboot to another kernel' (although the
>>> behaviour remains the same for the 'kdump' case as well) on arm64
>>> platforms using the 'kexec_load' invocation method.
>>>
>>> Lets consider the case where the primary kernel working on the arm64
>>> platform supports kaslr (i.e 'CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE' was set to y and
>>> we have a compliant EFI firmware which supports EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL and
>>> hence can pass a non-zero (valid) seed to the primary kernel).
>>>
>>> Now the primary kernel reads the 'kaslr-seed' and wipes it to 0 and
>>> uses the seed value to randomize for e.g. the module base address
>>> offset.
>>>
>>> In the case of 'kexec_load' (or even kdump for brevity),
>>> we rely on the user-space kexec-tools to pass an appropriate dtb to the
>>> secondary kernel and since 'kaslr-seed' is wiped to 0 by the primary
>>> kernel, the secondary will essentially work with *nokaslr* as
>>> 'kaslr-seed' is set to 0 when it is passed to the secondary kernel.
>>>
>>> This can be true even in case the secondary kernel had
>>> 'CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE' and 'CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MODULE_REGION_FULL' set to
>>> y.
>>>
>>> This patch addresses this issue by first checking if the device tree
>>> provided by the firmware to the kernel supports the 'kaslr-seed'
>>> property and verifies that it is really wiped to 0. If this condition is
>>> met, it fixes up the 'kaslr-seed' property by using the getrandom()
>>> syscall to get a suitable random number.
>>>
>>> I verified this patch on my Qualcomm arm64 board and here are some test
>>> results:
>>>
>>> 1. Ensure that the primary kernel is boot'ed with 'kaslr-seed'
>>>    dts property and it is really wiped to 0:
>>>
>>>    [root@qualcomm-amberwing]# dtc -I dtb -O dts /sys/firmware/fdt | grep -A 10 -i chosen
>>>       chosen {
>>>               kaslr-seed = <0x0 0x0>;
>>>               ...
>>>       }
>>>
>>> 2. Now issue 'kexec_load' to load the secondary kernel (let's assume
>>>    that we are using the same kernel as the secondary kernel):
>>>    # kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname
>>>      -r`.img --reuse-cmdline -d
>>>
>>> 3. Issue 'kexec -e' to warm boot to the secondary:
>>>    # kexec -e
>>>
>>> 4. Now after the secondary boots, confirm that the load address of the
>>>    modules is randomized in every successive boot:
>>>
>>>    [root@qualcomm-amberwing]# cat /proc/modules
>>>    sunrpc 524288 1 - Live 0xffff0307db190000
>>>    vfat 262144 1 - Live 0xffff0307db110000
>>>    fat 262144 1 vfat, Live 0xffff0307db090000
>>>    crc32_ce 262144 0 - Live 0xffff0307d8c70000
>>>    ...
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c | 135 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>>  1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c
>>> index 62f37585b788..2ab11227447a 100644
>>> --- a/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c
>>> +++ b/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c
>>> @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
>>>  #include <linux/elf-em.h>
>>>  #include <elf.h>
>>>
>>> +#include <unistd.h>
>>> +#include <syscall.h>
>>> +#include <errno.h>
>>> +#include <linux/random.h>
>>> +
>>>  #include "kexec.h"
>>>  #include "kexec-arm64.h"
>>>  #include "crashdump.h"
>>> @@ -392,11 +397,13 @@ static int fdt_setprop_range(void *fdt, int nodeoffset,
>>>  static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb, char *command_line, int on_crash)
>>>  {
>>>       uint32_t address_cells, size_cells;
>>> -     int range_len;
>>> -     int nodeoffset;
>>> +     uint64_t fdt_val64;
>>> +     uint64_t *prop;
>>>       char *new_buf = NULL;
>>> +     int len, range_len;
>>> +     int nodeoffset;
>>>       int new_size;
>>> -     int result;
>>> +     int result, kaslr_seed;
>>>
>>>       result = fdt_check_header(dtb->buf);
>>>
>>> @@ -407,47 +414,99 @@ static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb, char *command_line, int on_crash)
>>>
>>>       result = set_bootargs(dtb, command_line);
>>>
>>> -     if (on_crash) {
>>> -             /* determine #address-cells and #size-cells */
>>> -             result = get_cells_size(dtb->buf, &address_cells, &size_cells);
>>> -             if (result) {
>>> -                     fprintf(stderr,
>>> -                             "kexec: cannot determine cells-size.\n");
>>> -                     result = -EINVAL;
>>> -                     goto on_error;
>>> -             }
>>> +     /* determine #address-cells and #size-cells */
>>> +     result = get_cells_size(dtb->buf, &address_cells, &size_cells);
>>> +     if (result) {
>>> +             fprintf(stderr, "kexec: cannot determine cells-size.\n");
>>> +             result = -EINVAL;
>>> +             goto on_error;
>>> +     }
>>>
>>> -             if (!cells_size_fitted(address_cells, size_cells,
>>> -                                     &elfcorehdr_mem)) {
>>> -                     fprintf(stderr,
>>> -                             "kexec: elfcorehdr doesn't fit cells-size.\n");
>>> +     if (!cells_size_fitted(address_cells, size_cells,
>>> +                             &elfcorehdr_mem)) {
>>> +             fprintf(stderr, "kexec: elfcorehdr doesn't fit cells-size.\n");
>>> +             result = -EINVAL;
>>> +             goto on_error;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     if (!cells_size_fitted(address_cells, size_cells,
>>> +                             &crash_reserved_mem)) {
>>> +             fprintf(stderr, "kexec: usable memory range doesn't fit cells-size.\n");
>>> +             result = -EINVAL;
>>> +             goto on_error;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     /* duplicate dt blob */
>>> +     range_len = sizeof(uint32_t) * (address_cells + size_cells);
>>> +     new_size = fdt_totalsize(dtb->buf)
>>> +             + fdt_prop_len(PROP_ELFCOREHDR, range_len)
>>> +             + fdt_prop_len(PROP_USABLE_MEM_RANGE, range_len);
>>> +
>>> +     new_buf = xmalloc(new_size);
>>> +     result = fdt_open_into(dtb->buf, new_buf, new_size);
>>> +     if (result) {
>>> +             dbgprintf("%s: fdt_open_into failed: %s\n", __func__,
>>> +                             fdt_strerror(result));
>>> +             result = -ENOSPC;
>>> +             goto on_error;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     /* fixup 'kaslr-seed' with a random value, if supported */
>>> +     nodeoffset = fdt_path_offset(new_buf, "/chosen");
>>> +     prop = fdt_getprop_w(new_buf, nodeoffset,
>>> +                     "kaslr-seed", &len);
>>> +     if (!prop || len != sizeof(uint64_t)) {
>>
>> Do we need this check?
>> Please note that people are allowed to provide a dtb explicitly
>> at command line and may want to use kexec as bootloader on
>> no-uefi platform.
>
> I agree. Lets look at the original behaviour (before this patch). We
> used to unpack and fixup dtb properties and then pack it back when
> 'on_crash' was true (i.e only for the kdump case). In case of 'kexec'
> we do not fixup the dtb (as per my understanding, please correct me if
> I am wrong here).
>
> With this patch I wanted the dtb's kaslr-seed property to be fixed-up
> (if its supported and is wiped to 0 by the primary kernel). But this
> check is harmless in case we don't find the 'kaslr-seed' property in
> the dtb (for e.g. on non-uefi/u-boot based arm64 platforms).
>
> In case the property is not seen in the dtb, we just print a debug
> message (if '-d' flag was used to launch kexec) and proceed to perform
> fixup of other dtb properties (like 'linux, usable-memory-range) in
> case 'on_crash' is true (i.e. 'kexec -p' use case). In the 'kexec -l'
> case since we don't do any other fixups in the original approach so we
> retain the same behavior here.
>
>>> +             dbgprintf("%s: no kaslr-seed found: %s\n",
>>> +                             __func__, fdt_strerror(result));
>>> +             /* for kexec warm reboot case, we don't need to fixup
>>> +              * other dtb properties
>>> +              */
>>> +             if (!on_crash)
>>> +                     goto free_new_buf;
>>> +
>>> +     } else {
>>> +             kaslr_seed = fdt64_to_cpu(*prop);
>>> +
>>> +             /* kaslr_seed must be wiped clean by primary
>>> +              * kernel during boot
>>> +              */
>>> +             if (kaslr_seed != 0) {
>>> +                     dbgprintf("%s: kaslr-seed is not wiped to 0.\n",
>>> +                                     __func__);
>>
>> Ditto
>> If this is a user-provided dtb, there is no reason to reject it.
>> I think all what is needed here is to feed a *sane* dtb to kexec.
>>
>> So along with the comment above, it may be useful to add a command line
>> option for turning on or off "kaslr-seed".
>
> Please see my comments above. Since the 'kaslr-seed' property just
> needs to be read from the dtb, we probably don't need a separate
> command line option for the same as we already have nokaslr available.
> If we want the secondary kernel to boot with *nokaslr*, we can pass
> the same to the secondary via the command line arguments.
>
> BTW, I also tried the behaviour with --dtb being passed while invoking
> the 'kexec -l' with the patch in question and the resulting behaviour
> is correct, i.e. we see that if the secondary kernel supports
> CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y, we get the resulting randomization in module
> load address (for e.g.):
>
> # kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` --initrd=/boot/initramfs-`uname
> -r`.img --command-line="$(cat /proc/cmdline)" --dtb /sys/firmware/fdt
> -d
>
> # kexec -e
>
> On successive kexec warm reboots I see that '/proc/kallsyms' and
> '/proc/modules' have randomized addresses.
>
>>>                       result = -EINVAL;
>>>                       goto on_error;
>>>               }
>>>
>>> -             if (!cells_size_fitted(address_cells, size_cells,
>>> -                                     &crash_reserved_mem)) {
>>> -                     fprintf(stderr,
>>> -                             "kexec: usable memory range doesn't fit cells-size.\n");
>>> +             /*
>>> +              * Invoke the getrandom system call with
>>> +              * GRND_NONBLOCK, to make sure we
>>> +              * have a valid random seed to pass to the
>>> +              * secondary kernel.
>>> +              */
>>> +             result = syscall(SYS_getrandom, &fdt_val64,
>>> +                             sizeof(fdt_val64),
>>> +                             GRND_NONBLOCK);
>>
>> Why do you use syscall() here?
>
> I found that the standard way to invokde a getrandom() call is via a
> SYSCALL (please see
> <https://nikmav.blogspot.in/2016/10/random-generator-linux.html>).
>
>>> +
>>> +             if(result == -1) {
>>> +                     dbgprintf("%s: Reading random bytes failed.\n",
>>> +                                     __func__);
>>>                       result = -EINVAL;
>>>                       goto on_error;
>>>               }
>>>
>>> -             /* duplicate dt blob */
>>> -             range_len = sizeof(uint32_t) * (address_cells + size_cells);
>>> -             new_size = fdt_totalsize(dtb->buf)
>>> -                     + fdt_prop_len(PROP_ELFCOREHDR, range_len)
>>> -                     + fdt_prop_len(PROP_USABLE_MEM_RANGE, range_len);
>>> -
>>> -             new_buf = xmalloc(new_size);
>>> -             result = fdt_open_into(dtb->buf, new_buf, new_size);
>>> +             nodeoffset = fdt_path_offset(new_buf, "/chosen");
>>> +             result = fdt_setprop_inplace(new_buf,
>>> +                             nodeoffset, "kaslr-seed",
>>> +                             &fdt_val64, sizeof(fdt_val64));
>>>               if (result) {
>>> -                     dbgprintf("%s: fdt_open_into failed: %s\n", __func__,
>>> -                             fdt_strerror(result));
>>> -                     result = -ENOSPC;
>>> +                     dbgprintf("%s: fdt_setprop failed: %s\n",
>>> +                                     __func__, fdt_strerror(result));
>>> +                     result = -EINVAL;
>>>                       goto on_error;
>>>               }
>>> +     }
>>>
>>> +     if (on_crash) {
>>>               /* add linux,elfcorehdr */
>>>               nodeoffset = fdt_path_offset(new_buf, "/chosen");
>>>               result = fdt_setprop_range(new_buf, nodeoffset,
>>> @@ -455,7 +514,7 @@ static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb, char *command_line, int on_crash)
>>>                               address_cells, size_cells);
>>>               if (result) {
>>>                       dbgprintf("%s: fdt_setprop failed: %s\n", __func__,
>>> -                             fdt_strerror(result));
>>> +                                     fdt_strerror(result));
>>>                       result = -EINVAL;
>>>                       goto on_error;
>>>               }
>>> @@ -467,23 +526,23 @@ static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb, char *command_line, int on_crash)
>>>                               address_cells, size_cells);
>>>               if (result) {
>>>                       dbgprintf("%s: fdt_setprop failed: %s\n", __func__,
>>> -                             fdt_strerror(result));
>>> +                                     fdt_strerror(result));
>>>                       result = -EINVAL;
>>>                       goto on_error;
>>>               }
>>> -
>>> -             fdt_pack(new_buf);
>>> -             dtb->buf = new_buf;
>>> -             dtb->size = fdt_totalsize(new_buf);
>>>       }
>>>
>>> -     dump_reservemap(dtb);
>>> +     fdt_pack(new_buf);
>>> +     dtb->buf = new_buf;
>>> +     dtb->size = fdt_totalsize(new_buf);
>>>
>>> +     dump_reservemap(dtb);
>>>
>>>       return result;
>>>
>>>  on_error:
>>>       fprintf(stderr, "kexec: %s failed.\n", __func__);
>>> +free_new_buf:
>>
>> Well, technically correct, but it looks odd as it is placed
>> on *error* return path.
>
> I agree. I was not too comfortable with placing this label here.
> I will try to find a better approach in v2.
>
>> You also miss dump_reservemap().
>
> Oops. Sure will fix this in v2.
>
> Regards,
> Bhupesh

I was about to send a v2 for this feature and was wondering if you
have any further comments on the comments I shared last on the review
comments you had for the v1. If yes, I can try and include them in the
v2.

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Bhupesh

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