Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] efi/x86: Fix EFI memory map corruption with kexec

["Kalra, Ashish" <ashish.kalra@amd.com>]

On 6/3/2024 10:29 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 09:01:49AM -0500, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
>> On 6/3/2024 8:39 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 08:06:56AM -0500, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
>>>> On 6/3/2024 3:56 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote
>>>>
>>>>>> EFI memory map and due to early allocation it uses memblock allocation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Later during boot, efi_enter_virtual_mode() calls kexec_enter_virtual_mode()
>>>>>> in case of a kexec-ed kernel boot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This function kexec_enter_virtual_mode() installs the new EFI memory map by
>>>>>> calling efi_memmap_init_late() which remaps the efi_memmap physically allocated
>>>>>> in efi_arch_mem_reserve(), but this remapping is still using memblock allocation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Subsequently, when memblock is freed later in boot flow, this remapped
>>>>>> efi_memmap will have random corruption (similar to a use-after-free scenario).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The corrupted EFI memory map is then passed to the next kexec-ed kernel
>>>>>> which causes a panic when trying to use the corrupted EFI memory map.
>>>>> This sounds fishy: memblock allocated memory is not freed later in the
>>>>> boot - it remains reserved. Only free memory is freed from memblock to
>>>>> the buddy allocator.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or is the problem that memblock-allocated memory cannot be memremapped
>>>>> because *raisins*?
>>>> This is what seems to be happening:
>>>>
>>>> efi_arch_mem_reserve() calls efi_memmap_alloc() to allocate memory for
>>>> EFI memory map and due to early allocation it uses memblock allocation.
>>>>
>>>> And later efi_enter_virtual_mode() calls kexec_enter_virtual_mode()
>>>> in case of a kexec-ed kernel boot.
>>>>
>>>> This function kexec_enter_virtual_mode() installs the new EFI memory map by
>>>> calling efi_memmap_init_late() which does memremap() on memblock-allocated memory.
>>> Does the issue happen only with SNP?
>> This is observed under SNP as efi_arch_mem_reserve() is only being called
>> with SNP enabled and then efi_arch_mem_reserve() allocates EFI memory map
>> using memblock.
> I don't see how efi_arch_mem_reserve() is only called with SNP. What did I
> miss?
>   

This is the call stack for efi_arch_mem_reserve():

[    0.310010]  efi_arch_mem_reserve+0xb1/0x220
[    0.311382]  efi_mem_reserve+0x36/0x60
[    0.311973]  efi_bgrt_init+0x17d/0x1a0
[    0.313265]  acpi_parse_bgrt+0x12/0x20
[    0.313858]  acpi_table_parse+0x77/0xd0
[    0.314463]  acpi_boot_init+0x362/0x630
[    0.315069]  setup_arch+0xa88/0xf80
[    0.315629]  start_kernel+0x68/0xa90
[    0.316194]  x86_64_start_reservations+0x1c/0x30
[    0.316921]  x86_64_start_kernel+0xbf/0x110
[    0.317582]  common_startup_64+0x13e/0x141

So, probably it is being invoked specifically for AMD platform ?

>> If we skip efi_arch_mem_reserve() (which should probably be anyway skipped
>> for kexec case), then for kexec boot, EFI memmap is memremapped in the same
>> virtual address as the first kernel and not the allocated memblock address.
> Maybe we should skip efi_arch_mem_reserve() for kexec case, but I think we
> still need to understand what's causing memory corruption.

When, efi_arch_mem_reserve() allocates memory for EFI memory map using 
memblock and then later in boot, kexec_enter_virtual_mode() does 
memremap on this memblock allocated memory, subsequently after this i 
see EFI memory map corruption, so are there are any issues doing 
memremap on memblock-allocated memory ?

Thanks, Ashish

>>> I didn't really dig, but my theory would be that it has something to do
>>> with arch_memremap_can_ram_remap() in arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
>>>> Thanks, Ashish

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