This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/gart: Exclude GART aperture from vmcore
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: x86-gart-exclude-gart-aperture-from-vmcore.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 10:16:32 CEST 2018
From: Jiri Bohac jbohac@suse.cz Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 02:00:13 +0100 Subject: x86/gart: Exclude GART aperture from vmcore
From: Jiri Bohac jbohac@suse.cz
[ Upstream commit 2a3e83c6f96c513f43ce5a8c9034608ea584a255 ]
On machines where the GART aperture is mapped over physical RAM /proc/vmcore contains the remapped range and reading it may cause hangs or reboots.
In the past, the GART region was added into the resource map, implemented by commit 56dd669a138c ("[PATCH] Insert GART region into resource map")
However, inserting the iomem_resource from the early GART code caused resource conflicts with some AGP drivers (bko#72201), which got avoided by reverting the patch in commit 707d4eefbdb3 ("Revert [PATCH] Insert GART region into resource map"). This revert introduced the /proc/vmcore bug.
The vmcore ELF header is either prepared by the kernel (when using the kexec_file_load syscall) or by the kexec userspace (when using the kexec_load syscall). Since we no longer have the GART iomem resource, the userspace kexec has no way of knowing which region to exclude from the ELF header.
Changes from v1 of this patch: Instead of excluding the aperture from the ELF header, this patch makes /proc/vmcore return zeroes in the second kernel when attempting to read the aperture region. This is done by reusing the gart_oldmem_pfn_is_ram infrastructure originally intended to exclude XEN balooned memory. This works for both, the kexec_file_load and kexec_load syscalls.
[Note that the GART region is the same in the first and second kernels: regardless whether the first kernel fixed up the northbridge/bios setting and mapped the aperture over physical memory, the second kernel finds the northbridge properly configured by the first kernel and the aperture never overlaps with e820 memory because the second kernel has a fake e820 map created from the crashkernel memory regions. Thus, the second kernel keeps the aperture address/size as configured by the first kernel.]
register_oldmem_pfn_is_ram can only register one callback and returns an error if the callback has been registered already. Since XEN used to be the only user of this function, it never checks the return value. Now that we have more than one user, I added a WARN_ON just in case agp, XEN, or any other future user of register_oldmem_pfn_is_ram were to step on each other's toes.
Fixes: 707d4eefbdb3 ("Revert [PATCH] Insert GART region into resource map") Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac jbohac@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Baoquan He bhe@redhat.com Cc: Toshi Kani toshi.kani@hpe.com Cc: David Airlie airlied@linux.ie Cc: yinghai@kernel.org Cc: joro@8bytes.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Bjorn Helgaas bhelgaas@google.com Cc: Dave Young dyoung@redhat.com Cc: Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180106010013.73suskgxm7lox7g6@dwarf.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/x86/xen/mmu_hvm.c | 2 - 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ #include <asm/dma.h> #include <asm/amd_nb.h> #include <asm/x86_init.h> +#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
/* * Using 512M as goal, in case kexec will load kernel_big @@ -56,6 +57,33 @@ int fallback_aper_force __initdata;
int fix_aperture __initdata = 1;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE +/* + * If the first kernel maps the aperture over e820 RAM, the kdump kernel will + * use the same range because it will remain configured in the northbridge. + * Trying to dump this area via /proc/vmcore may crash the machine, so exclude + * it from vmcore. + */ +static unsigned long aperture_pfn_start, aperture_page_count; + +static int gart_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(unsigned long pfn) +{ + return likely((pfn < aperture_pfn_start) || + (pfn >= aperture_pfn_start + aperture_page_count)); +} + +static void exclude_from_vmcore(u64 aper_base, u32 aper_order) +{ + aperture_pfn_start = aper_base >> PAGE_SHIFT; + aperture_page_count = (32 * 1024 * 1024) << aper_order >> PAGE_SHIFT; + WARN_ON(register_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(&gart_oldmem_pfn_is_ram)); +} +#else +static void exclude_from_vmcore(u64 aper_base, u32 aper_order) +{ +} +#endif + /* This code runs before the PCI subsystem is initialized, so just access the northbridge directly. */
@@ -435,8 +463,16 @@ int __init gart_iommu_hole_init(void)
out: if (!fix && !fallback_aper_force) { - if (last_aper_base) + if (last_aper_base) { + /* + * If this is the kdump kernel, the first kernel + * may have allocated the range over its e820 RAM + * and fixed up the northbridge + */ + exclude_from_vmcore(last_aper_base, last_aper_order); + return 1; + } return 0; }
@@ -473,6 +509,14 @@ out: return 0; }
+ /* + * If this is the kdump kernel _and_ the first kernel did not + * configure the aperture in the northbridge, this range may + * overlap with the first kernel's memory. We can't access the + * range through vmcore even though it should be part of the dump. + */ + exclude_from_vmcore(aper_alloc, aper_order); + /* Fix up the north bridges */ for (i = 0; i < amd_nb_bus_dev_ranges[i].dev_limit; i++) { int bus, dev_base, dev_limit; --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_hvm.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_hvm.c @@ -75,6 +75,6 @@ void __init xen_hvm_init_mmu_ops(void) if (is_pagetable_dying_supported()) pv_mmu_ops.exit_mmap = xen_hvm_exit_mmap; #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE - register_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(&xen_oldmem_pfn_is_ram); + WARN_ON(register_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(&xen_oldmem_pfn_is_ram)); #endif }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jbohac@suse.cz are
queue-4.15/x86-gart-exclude-gart-aperture-from-vmcore.patch