Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/mm/KASLR: Do not adapt size of the direct mapping section for SGI UV system

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

Hi all,

PING!

Is there any further comment or suggetion about this patchset?

Thanks
Baoquan

On 05/20/17 at 08:02pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> This is v2 post.
> 
> This patchset is trying to fix a bug that SGI UV system casually hang
> during boot with KASLR enabled. The root cause is that mm KASLR adapts
> size of the direct mapping section only based on the system RAM size.
> Then later when map SGI UV MMIOH region into the direct mapping during
> rest_init() invocation, it might go beyond of the directing mapping
> section and step into VMALLOC or VMEMMAP area, then BUG_ON triggered.
> 
> The fix is adding a helper function is_early_uv_system to check UV system
> earlier, then call the helper function in kernel_randomize_memory() to
> check if it's a SGI UV system, if yes, we keep the size of direct mapping
> section to be 64TB just as nokslr.
> 
> With this fix, SGI UV system can have 64TB direct mapping size always,
> and the starting address of direct mapping/vmalloc/vmemmap and the padding
> between them can still be randomized to enhance the system security.
> 
> v1->v2:
>     1. Mike suggested making is_early_uv_system() an inline function and be
>     put in include/asm/uv/uv.h so that they can adjust them easier in the
>     future.
> 
>     2. Split the v1 code into uv part and mm KASLR part as Mike suggested.
> 
> Baoquan He (2):
>   x86/UV: Introduce a helper function to check UV system at earlier
>     stage
>   x86/mm/KASLR: Do not adapt the size of the direct mapping section for
>     SGI UV system
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h | 6 ++++++
>  arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c          | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
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