| From d48ec5e1a5fb7907520dee71b1d94045486a0c29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Alexander Kamensky <alexander.kamensky42@gmail.com> |
| Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:56:46 -0800 |
| Subject: [PATCH] arm64: kexec: disabled check if kaslr-seed dtb property was |
| wiped |
| |
| Kexec when loading arm64 kernel checks if chosen/kaslr-seed dtb property is |
| wiped. It's a good assertion to verify proper behavior of kernel. However, |
| if bootloader creates and fills kaslr-seed property and kernel is not |
| configured with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE then logic of reading and wiping |
| kaslr-seed does not run. As a result kaslr-seed property is not zero and when |
| kexec tries to load secondary kernel it fails with the following message: |
| |
| setup_2nd_dtb: kaslr-seed is not wiped to 0. |
| kexec: setup_2nd_dtb failed. |
| kexec: load failed. |
| |
| This was observed on Yocto Project on qemuarm64 machine with 5.8 kernel, |
| qemu 5.1.0. Qemu created kaslr-seed property but kernel was not configured |
| with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE. |
| |
| Although check has some value, there is a use-case where it breaks kexec, |
| this patch removes it. |
| |
| Note in described use-case the fact that kaslr-seed is not wiped and user |
| readable through /sys/firmware/fdt or |
| /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/chosen/kaslr-seed is not a security problem |
| as kaslr is disabled anyway. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: Alexander Kamensky <alexander.kamensky42@gmail.com> |
| Upstream-Status: Submitted [http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2020-November/021740.html] |
| --- |
| kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c | 14 +------------- |
| 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-) |
| |
| Index: kexec-tools-2.0.20/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c |
| =================================================================== |
| --- kexec-tools-2.0.20.orig/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c |
| +++ kexec-tools-2.0.20/kexec/arch/arm64/kexec-arm64.c |
| @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb |
| int len, range_len; |
| int nodeoffset; |
| int new_size; |
| - int result, kaslr_seed; |
| + int result; |
| |
| result = fdt_check_header(dtb->buf); |
| |
| @@ -499,18 +499,6 @@ static int setup_2nd_dtb(struct dtb *dtb |
| return result; |
| } |
| } 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__); |
| - result = -EINVAL; |
| - goto on_error; |
| - } |
| - |
| /* |
| * Invoke the getrandom system call with |
| * GRND_NONBLOCK, to make sure we |