Re: Bug report about KASLR and ZONE_MOVABLE

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 07/11/18 at 05:42pm, Chao Fan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I found there is a BUG about KASLR and ZONE_MOVABLE.
> 
> When users use 'kernelcore=' parameter without 'movable_node',
> movable memory is evenly distributed to all nodes. The size of
> ZONE_MOVABLE depends on the kernel parameter 'kernelcore=' and
> 'movablecore='.
> But sometiomes, KASLR may put the uncompressed kernel to the
> tail position of a node, which will cause the kernel memory
> set as ZONE_MOVABLE. This region can not be offlined.
> 
> Here is a very simple test in my qemu-kvm machine, there is
> only one node:
> 
> The command line:
> [root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.18.0-rc3+ root=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root
> ro resume=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-swap
> rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/swap
> console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200n8 memblock=debug kernelcore=50%
> 
> I use 'kernelcore=50%' here.
> 
> Here is my early print result, I print the random_addr after KASLR chooses
> physical memory:
> early console in extract_kernel
> input_data: 0x000000000266b3b1
> input_len: 0x00000000007d8802
> output: 0x0000000001000000
> output_len: 0x0000000001e15698
> kernel_total_size: 0x0000000001a8b000
> trampoline_32bit: 0x000000000009d000
> booted via startup_32()
> Physical KASLR using RDRAND RDTSC...
> random_addr: 0x000000012f000000
> Virtual KASLR using RDRAND RDTSC...
> 
> The address for kernel is 0x000000012f000000
> 
> Here is the log of ZONE:
> [    0.000000] Zone ranges:
> [    0.000000]   DMA      [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000ffffff]
> [    0.000000]   DMA32    [mem 0x0000000001000000-0x00000000ffffffff]
> [    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x00000001f57fffff]
> [    0.000000]   Device   empty
> [    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
> [    0.000000]   Node 0: 0x000000011b000000
> [    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000000009efff]
> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000bffd6fff]
> [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x00000001f57fffff]
> [    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem
> 0x0000000000001000-0x00000001f57fffff]
> 
> Only one node in my machine, ZONE_MOVABLE begins from 0x000000011b000000,
> which is lower than 0x000000012f000000.
> So KASLR put the kernel to the ZONE_MOVABLE.
> Try to solve this problem, I think there should be a new tactic in function
> find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes() of mm/page_alloc.c. If kernel is uncompressed
> in a tail position, then just set the memory after the kernel as ZONE_MOVABLE,
> at the same time, memory in other nodes will be set as ZONE_MOVABLE.

Hmm, it's an issue, worth fixing it. Otherwise the size of
movable area will be smaller than we expect when add "kernel_core="
or "movable_core=".

Add a check in find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes(), and use min() to get
the starting address of movable area between aligned '_etext'
and start_pfn. It will go to label 'restart' to calculate the 2nd round
if not satisfiled. 

Hi Chao,

Could you check if below patch works for you?