Re: x86/kaslr: Expose and use the end of the physical memory address space

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Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> iounmap() on x86 occasionally fails to unmap because the provided valid
> ioremap address is not below high_memory. It turned out that this
> happens due to KASLR.
>
> KASLR uses the full address space between PAGE_OFFSET and vaddr_end to
> randomize the starting points of the direct map, vmalloc and vmemmap
> regions.  It thereby limits the size of the direct map by using the
> installed memory size plus an extra configurable margin for hot-plug
> memory.  This limitation is done to gain more randomization space
> because otherwise only the holes between the direct map, vmalloc,
> vmemmap and vaddr_end would be usable for randomizing.
>
> The limited direct map size is not exposed to the rest of the kernel, so
> the memory hot-plug and resource management related code paths still
> operate under the assumption that the available address space can be
> determined with MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.
>
> request_free_mem_region() allocates from (1 << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1
> downwards.  That means the first allocation happens past the end of the
> direct map and if unlucky this address is in the vmalloc space, which
> causes high_memory to become greater than VMALLOC_START and consequently
> causes iounmap() to fail for valid ioremap addresses.
>
> MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS cannot be changed for that because the randomization
> does not align with address bit boundaries and there are other places
> which actually require to know the maximum number of address bits.  All
> remaining usage sites of MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS have been analyzed and found
> to be correct.
>
> Cure this by exposing the end of the direct map via PHYSMEM_END and use
> that for the memory hot-plug and resource management related places
> instead of relying on MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS. In the KASLR case PHYSMEM_END
> maps to a variable which is initialized by the KASLR initialization and
> otherwise it is based on MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS as before.
>
> To prevent future hickups add a check into add_pages() to catch callers
> trying to add memory above PHYSMEM_END.
>
> Fixes: 0483e1fa6e09 ("x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regions")
> Reported-by: Max Ramanouski <max8rr8@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Thomas. Looks good and it fixes the issue on a system which
always ran into the iounmap problem. So feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h          |    1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h |    4 ++++
>  arch/x86/mm/init_64.c                   |    4 ++++
>  arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c                     |   21 ++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/linux/mm.h                      |    4 ++++
>  kernel/resource.c                       |    6 ++----
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c                     |    2 +-
>  mm/sparse.c                             |    2 +-
>  8 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ extern unsigned long phys_base;
>  extern unsigned long page_offset_base;
>  extern unsigned long vmalloc_base;
>  extern unsigned long vmemmap_base;
> +extern unsigned long physmem_end;
>  
>  static __always_inline unsigned long __phys_addr_nodebug(unsigned long x)
>  {
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h
> @@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ extern unsigned int ptrs_per_p4d;
>  # define VMEMMAP_START		__VMEMMAP_BASE_L4
>  #endif /* CONFIG_DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT */
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
> +# define PHYSMEM_END		physmem_end
> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   * End of the region for which vmalloc page tables are pre-allocated.
>   * For non-KMSAN builds, this is the same as VMALLOC_END.
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -958,8 +958,12 @@ static void update_end_of_memory_vars(u6
>  int add_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
>  	      struct mhp_params *params)
>  {
> +	unsigned long end = ((start_pfn + nr_pages) << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(end > PHYSMEM_END))
> +		return -ERANGE;
> +
>  	ret = __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
>  	WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
>  
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
> @@ -47,13 +47,24 @@ static const unsigned long vaddr_end = C
>   */
>  static __initdata struct kaslr_memory_region {
>  	unsigned long *base;
> +	unsigned long *end;
>  	unsigned long size_tb;
>  } kaslr_regions[] = {
> -	{ &page_offset_base, 0 },
> -	{ &vmalloc_base, 0 },
> -	{ &vmemmap_base, 0 },
> +	{
> +		.base	= &page_offset_base,
> +		.end	= &physmem_end,
> +	},
> +	{
> +		.base	= &vmalloc_base,
> +	},
> +	{
> +		.base	= &vmemmap_base,
> +	},
>  };
>  
> +/* The end of the possible address space for physical memory */
> +unsigned long physmem_end __ro_after_init;
> +
>  /* Get size in bytes used by the memory region */
>  static inline unsigned long get_padding(struct kaslr_memory_region *region)
>  {
> @@ -82,6 +93,8 @@ void __init kernel_randomize_memory(void
>  	BUILD_BUG_ON(vaddr_end != CPU_ENTRY_AREA_BASE);
>  	BUILD_BUG_ON(vaddr_end > __START_KERNEL_map);
>  
> +	/* Preset the end of the possible address space for physical memory */
> +	physmem_end = ((1ULL << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1);
>  	if (!kaslr_memory_enabled())
>  		return;
>  
> @@ -134,6 +147,8 @@ void __init kernel_randomize_memory(void
>  		 */
>  		vaddr += get_padding(&kaslr_regions[i]);
>  		vaddr = round_up(vaddr + 1, PUD_SIZE);
> +		if (kaslr_regions[i].end)
> +			*kaslr_regions[i].end = __pa(vaddr) - 1;
>  		remain_entropy -= entropy;
>  	}
>  }
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ extern const int mmap_rnd_compat_bits_ma
>  extern int mmap_rnd_compat_bits __read_mostly;
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifndef PHYSMEM_END
> +# define PHYSMEM_END	((1ULL << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1)
> +#endif
> +
>  #include <asm/page.h>
>  #include <asm/processor.h>
>  
> --- a/kernel/resource.c
> +++ b/kernel/resource.c
> @@ -1826,8 +1826,7 @@ static resource_size_t gfr_start(struct
>  	if (flags & GFR_DESCENDING) {
>  		resource_size_t end;
>  
> -		end = min_t(resource_size_t, base->end,
> -			    (1ULL << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1);
> +		end = min_t(resource_size_t, base->end, PHYSMEM_END);
>  		return end - size + 1;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -1844,8 +1843,7 @@ static bool gfr_continue(struct resource
>  	 * @size did not wrap 0.
>  	 */
>  	return addr > addr - size &&
> -	       addr <= min_t(resource_size_t, base->end,
> -			     (1ULL << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1);
> +	       addr <= min_t(resource_size_t, base->end, PHYSMEM_END);
>  }
>  
>  static resource_size_t gfr_next(resource_size_t addr, resource_size_t size,
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@ struct range __weak arch_get_mappable_ra
>  
>  struct range mhp_get_pluggable_range(bool need_mapping)
>  {
> -	const u64 max_phys = (1ULL << MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1;
> +	const u64 max_phys = PHYSMEM_END;
>  	struct range mhp_range;
>  
>  	if (need_mapping) {
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static inline int sparse_early_nid(struc
>  static void __meminit mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(unsigned long *start_pfn,
>  						unsigned long *end_pfn)
>  {
> -	unsigned long max_sparsemem_pfn = 1UL << (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS-PAGE_SHIFT);
> +	unsigned long max_sparsemem_pfn = (PHYSMEM_END + 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Sanity checks - do not allow an architecture to pass





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