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From: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: "Ondrej Kozina" <okozina@redhat.com>,
	"Milan Broz" <gmazyland@gmail.com>,
	"Thomas Staudt" <tstaudt@de.ibm.com>,
	"Daniel P . Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Kairui Song" <ryncsn@gmail.com>,
	"Pingfan Liu" <kernelfans@gmail.com>,
	"Baoquan He" <bhe@redhat.com>, "Dave Young" <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	"Vitaly Kuznetsov" <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	"Arnaud Lefebvre" <arnaud.lefebvre@clever-cloud.com>,
	"Jan Pazdziora" <jpazdziora@redhat.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH v9 1/8] kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomly
Date: Fri,  2 May 2025 09:12:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250502011246.99238-2-coxu@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250502011246.99238-1-coxu@redhat.com>

Currently, kexec_buf is placed in order which means for the same
machine, the info in the kexec_buf is always located at the same
position each time the machine is booted. This may cause a risk for
sensitive information like LUKS volume key. Now struct kexec_buf has a
new field random which indicates it's supposed to be placed in a random
position.

Note this feature is enabled only when CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled. So
it only takes effect for kdump and won't impact kexec reboot.

Suggested-by: Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/kexec.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/kexec_file.c   |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index c8971861521a..1871eaa95432 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
 
 extern note_buf_t __percpu *crash_notes;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+#include <linux/prandom.h>
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/compat.h>
@@ -169,6 +173,7 @@ int kexec_image_post_load_cleanup_default(struct kimage *image);
  * @buf_min:	The buffer can't be placed below this address.
  * @buf_max:	The buffer can't be placed above this address.
  * @top_down:	Allocate from top of memory.
+ * @random:	Place the buffer at a random position.
  */
 struct kexec_buf {
 	struct kimage *image;
@@ -180,8 +185,33 @@ struct kexec_buf {
 	unsigned long buf_min;
 	unsigned long buf_max;
 	bool top_down;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+	bool random;
+#endif
 };
 
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+static inline void kexec_random_range_start(unsigned long start,
+					    unsigned long end,
+					    struct kexec_buf *kbuf,
+					    unsigned long *temp_start)
+{
+	unsigned short i;
+
+	if (kbuf->random) {
+		get_random_bytes(&i, sizeof(unsigned short));
+		*temp_start = start + (end - start) / USHRT_MAX * i;
+	}
+}
+#else
+static inline void kexec_random_range_start(unsigned long start,
+					    unsigned long end,
+					    struct kexec_buf *kbuf,
+					    unsigned long *temp_start)
+{}
+#endif
+
 int kexec_load_purgatory(struct kimage *image, struct kexec_buf *kbuf);
 int kexec_purgatory_get_set_symbol(struct kimage *image, const char *name,
 				   void *buf, unsigned int size,
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index fba686487e3b..1180c0aa73f6 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ static int locate_mem_hole_top_down(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 
 	temp_end = min(end, kbuf->buf_max);
 	temp_start = temp_end - kbuf->memsz + 1;
+	kexec_random_range_start(temp_start, temp_end, kbuf, &temp_start);
 
 	do {
 		/* align down start */
@@ -489,6 +490,8 @@ static int locate_mem_hole_bottom_up(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 
 	temp_start = max(start, kbuf->buf_min);
 
+	kexec_random_range_start(temp_start, end, kbuf, &temp_start);
+
 	do {
 		temp_start = ALIGN(temp_start, kbuf->buf_align);
 		temp_end = temp_start + kbuf->memsz - 1;
-- 
2.49.0



  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-02  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-02  1:12 [PATCH v9 0/8] Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys Coiby Xu
2025-05-02  1:12 ` Coiby Xu [this message]
2025-08-21 11:15   ` [PATCH v9 1/8] kexec_file: allow to place kexec_buf randomly Breno Leitao
2025-08-25  1:18     ` Coiby Xu
2025-08-26  1:05       ` Andrew Morton
2025-08-27 11:38         ` Baoquan He
2025-08-27 13:38           ` Breno Leitao
2025-05-02  1:12 ` [PATCH v9 2/8] crash_dump: make dm crypt keys persist for the kdump kernel Coiby Xu
2025-05-02  1:12 ` [PATCH v9 3/8] crash_dump: store dm crypt keys in kdump reserved memory Coiby Xu
2025-05-02  1:12 ` [PATCH v9 4/8] crash_dump: reuse saved dm crypt keys for CPU/memory hot-plugging Coiby Xu
2025-05-02  1:12 ` [PATCH v9 5/8] crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel Coiby Xu
2025-05-02  1:12 ` [PATCH v9 6/8] Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()" Coiby Xu
2025-05-04  6:46   ` Andrew Morton
2025-05-07  3:05     ` Coiby Xu
2025-05-02  1:12 ` [PATCH v9 7/8] x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel Coiby Xu
2025-05-02  1:12 ` [PATCH v9 8/8] x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible Coiby Xu

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