Re: [PATCH] optee: Disable shm cache when booting the crash kernel

Allen Pais
2021-05-07T07:00:44Z

> On 07-May-2021, at 9:28 AM, Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> The .shutdown hook is not called after a kernel crash when a kdump
> kernel is pre-loaded. A kexec into the kdump kernel takes place as
> quickly as possible without allowing drivers to clean up.
>
> That means that the OP-TEE shared memory cache, which was initialized by
> the kernel that crashed, is still in place when the kdump kernel is
> booted. As the kdump kernel is shutdown, the .shutdown hook is called,
> which calls optee_disable_shm_cache(), and OP-TEE's
> OPTEE_SMC_DISABLE_SHM_CACHE API returns virtual addresses that are not
> mapped for the kdump kernel since the cache was set up by the previous
> kernel. Trying to dereference the tee_shm pointer or otherwise translate
> the address results in a fault that cannot be handled:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff4317b9c09744
> Mem abort info:
> ESR = 0x96000004
> EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> SET = 0, FnV = 0
> EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> Data abort info:
> ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
> CM = 0, WnR = 0
> swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000970b1e000
> [ffff4317b9c09744] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
> Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
> Modules linked in: bnxt_en pcie_iproc_platform pcie_iproc diagbe(O)
> CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: systemd-shutdow Tainted: G O 5.10.19.8 #1
> Hardware name: Redacted (DT)
> pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> pc : tee_shm_free (/usr/src/kernel/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c:363)
> lr : optee_disable_shm_cache (/usr/src/kernel/drivers/tee/optee/call.c:441)
> sp : ffff80001005bb70
> x29: ffff80001005bb70 x28: ffff608e74648e00
> x27: ffff80001005bb98 x26: dead000000000100
> x25: ffff80001005bbb8 x24: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> x23: ffff608e74cf8818 x22: ffff608e738be600
> x21: ffff80001005bbc8 x20: ffff608e738be638
> x19: ffff4317b9c09700 x18: ffffffffffffffff
> x17: 0000000000000041 x16: ffffba61b5171764
> x15: 0000000000000004 x14: 0000000000000fff
> x13: ffffba61b5c9dfc8 x12: 0000000000000003
> x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000
> x9 : ffffba61b5413824 x8 : 00000000ffff4317
> x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
> x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000
> x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : ffff4317b9c09700
> x1 : 00000000ffff4317 x0 : ffff4317b9c09700
> Call trace:
> tee_shm_free (/usr/src/kernel/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c:363)
> optee_disable_shm_cache (/usr/src/kernel/drivers/tee/optee/call.c:441)
> optee_shutdown (/usr/src/kernel/drivers/tee/optee/core.c:636)
> platform_drv_shutdown (/usr/src/kernel/drivers/base/platform.c:800)
> device_shutdown (/usr/src/kernel/include/linux/device.h:758 /usr/src/kernel/drivers/base/core.c:4078)
> kernel_restart (/usr/src/kernel/kernel/reboot.c:221 /usr/src/kernel/kernel/reboot.c:248)
> __arm64_sys_reboot (/usr/src/kernel/kernel/reboot.c:349 /usr/src/kernel/kernel/reboot.c:312 /usr/src/kernel/kernel/reboot.c:312)
> do_el0_svc (/usr/src/kernel/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:56 /usr/src/kernel/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:158 /usr/src/kernel/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:197)
> el0_svc (/usr/src/kernel/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:368)
> el0_sync_handler (/usr/src/kernel/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:428)
> el0_sync (/usr/src/kernel/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:671)
> Code: aa0003f3 b5000060 12800003 14000002 (b9404663)
>
> When booting the kdump kernel, drain the shared memory cache while being
> careful to not translate the addresses returned from
> OPTEE_SMC_DISABLE_SHM_CACHE. Once the invalid cache objects are drained
> and the cache is disabled, proceed with re-enabling the cache so that we
> aren't dealing with invalid addresses while shutting down the kdump
> kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
>
> This patch fixes a crash introduced by "optee: fix tee out of memory
> failure seen during kexec reboot"[1]. However, I don't think that the
> original two patch series[2] plus this patch is the full solution to
> properly handling OP-TEE shared memory across kexec.
>
> While testing this fix, I did about 10 kexec reboots and then triggered
> a kernel crash by writing 'c' to /proc/sysrq-trigger. The kdump kernel
> became unresponsive during boot while steadily streaming the following
> errors to the serial console:
>
> arm-smmu 64000000.mmu: Blocked unknown Stream ID 0x2000; boot with "arm-smmu.disable_bypass=0" to allow, but this may have security implications
> arm-smmu 64000000.mmu: GFSR 0x00000002, GFSYNR0 0x00000002, GFSYNR1 0x00002000, GFSYNR2 0x00000000
>
> I suspect that this is related to the problems of OP-TEE shared memory
> handling across kexec. My current hunch is that while we've disabled the
> shared memory cache with this patch, we haven't unregistered all of the
> addresses that the previous kernel (which crashed) had registered with
> OP-TEE and that perhaps OP-TEE OS is still trying to make use those
> addresses?
>
> I'm still pretty early in investigating that assumption and
> I'm learning about OP-TEE as I go but I wanted to get this initial
> fix-of-the-fix out so that it was clear that the v2 of the series[2] is
> not complete.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210225090610.242623-2-allen.lkml@gmail.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210225090610.242623-1-allen.lkml@gmail.com/#t
>
> drivers/tee/optee/call.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> drivers/tee/optee/core.c | 13 +++++++++++--
> drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tee/optee/call.c b/drivers/tee/optee/call.c
> index 6132cc8d014c..799e84bec63d 100644
> --- a/drivers/tee/optee/call.c
> +++ b/drivers/tee/optee/call.c
> @@ -417,8 +417,10 @@ void optee_enable_shm_cache(struct optee *optee)
> * optee_disable_shm_cache() - Disables caching of some shared memory allocation
> * in OP-TEE
> * @optee: main service struct
> + * @is_mapped: true if the cached shared memory addresses were mapped by this
> + * kernel, are safe to dereference, and should be freed
> */
> -void optee_disable_shm_cache(struct optee *optee)
> +void optee_disable_shm_cache(struct optee *optee, bool is_mapped)
> {
> struct optee_call_waiter w;
>
> @@ -437,6 +439,13 @@ void optee_disable_shm_cache(struct optee *optee)
> if (res.result.status == OPTEE_SMC_RETURN_OK) {
> struct tee_shm *shm;
>

Thanks Tyler.
From what I understand from my email exchange with Jens, I don’t
Think we want to touch optee_disable_shm_cache(), I could be wrong too,
@Jens, comments?

> + /*
> + * Shared memory references that were not mapped by
> + * this kernel must be ignored to prevent a crash.
> + */
> + if (!is_mapped)
> + continue;
> +
> shm = reg_pair_to_ptr(res.result.shm_upper32,
> res.result.shm_lower32);
> tee_shm_free(shm);
> diff --git a/drivers/tee/optee/core.c b/drivers/tee/optee/core.c
> index 69d1f698907c..9985c671bd1f 100644
> --- a/drivers/tee/optee/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/tee/optee/core.c
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
>
> #include <linux/arm-smccc.h>
> +#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
> #include <linux/errno.h>
> #include <linux/io.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> @@ -588,7 +589,7 @@ static int optee_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> * reference counters and also avoid wild pointers in secure world
> * into the old shared memory range.
> */
> - optee_disable_shm_cache(optee);
> + optee_disable_shm_cache(optee, true);
>
> /*
> * The two devices have to be unregistered before we can free the
> @@ -618,7 +619,7 @@ static int optee_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> */
> static void optee_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> - optee_disable_shm_cache(platform_get_drvdata(pdev));
> + optee_disable_shm_cache(platform_get_drvdata(pdev), true);
> }
>
> static int optee_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> @@ -705,6 +706,14 @@ static int optee_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> optee->memremaped_shm = memremaped_shm;
> optee->pool = pool;
>
> + /*
> + * The kexec into the crash kernel did not call our .shutdown hook. The
> + * shm cache objects registered with OP-TEE are not valid for the crash
> + * kernel.
> + */
> + if (is_kdump_kernel())
> + optee_disable_shm_cache(optee, false);
> +

Am glad this solves the kdump crash that we have been seeing.

- Allen

> optee_enable_shm_cache(optee);
>
> if (optee->sec_caps & OPTEE_SMC_SEC_CAP_DYNAMIC_SHM)
> diff --git a/drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h b/drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h
> index e25b216a14ef..16d8c82213e7 100644
> --- a/drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h
> +++ b/drivers/tee/optee/optee_private.h
> @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ int optee_invoke_func(struct tee_context *ctx, struct tee_ioctl_invoke_arg *arg,
> int optee_cancel_req(struct tee_context *ctx, u32 cancel_id, u32 session);
>
> void optee_enable_shm_cache(struct optee *optee);
> -void optee_disable_shm_cache(struct optee *optee);
> +void optee_disable_shm_cache(struct optee *optee, bool is_mapped);
>
> int optee_shm_register(struct tee_context *ctx, struct tee_shm *shm,
> struct page **pages, size_t num_pages,
> --
> 2.25.1