Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] kexec: Support purgatories with .text.hot sections

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 05:06:53PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> Clang16 links the purgatory text in two sections:
> 
>   [ 1] .text             PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000040
>        00000000000011a1  0000000000000000  AX       0     0     16
>   [ 2] .rela.text        RELA             0000000000000000  00003498
>        0000000000000648  0000000000000018   I      24     1     8
>   ...
>   [17] .text.hot.        PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00003220
>        000000000000020b  0000000000000000  AX       0     0     1
>   [18] .rela.text.hot.   RELA             0000000000000000  00004428
>        0000000000000078  0000000000000018   I      24    17     8
> 
> And both of them have their range [sh_addr ... sh_addr+sh_size] on the
> area pointed by `e_entry`.
> 
> This causes that image->start is calculated twice, once for .text and
> another time for .text.hot. The second calculation leaves image->start
> in a random location.
> 
> Because of this, the system crashes inmediatly after:

s/inmediatly/immediately/

> 
> kexec_core: Starting new kernel
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Maybe a fixes tag is warranted here.

> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
> ---
>  kernel/kexec_file.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> index f1a0e4e3fb5c..25a37d8f113a 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
> @@ -901,10 +901,21 @@ static int kexec_purgatory_setup_sechdrs(struct purgatory_info *pi,
>  		}
>  
>  		offset = ALIGN(offset, align);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Check if the segment contains the entry point, if so,
> +		 * calculate the value of image->start based on it.
> +		 * If the compiler has produced more than one .text sections

nit: s/sections/section/

> +		 * (Eg: .text.hot), they are generally after the main .text

If this is the general case, then are there cases where this doesn't hold?

> +		 * section, and they shall not be used to calculate
> +		 * image->start. So do not re-calculate image->start if it
> +		 * is not set to the initial value.
> +		 */
>  		if (sechdrs[i].sh_flags & SHF_EXECINSTR &&
>  		    pi->ehdr->e_entry >= sechdrs[i].sh_addr &&
>  		    pi->ehdr->e_entry < (sechdrs[i].sh_addr
> -					 + sechdrs[i].sh_size)) {
> +					 + sechdrs[i].sh_size) &&
> +		    kbuf->image->start == pi->ehdr->e_entry) {
>  			kbuf->image->start -= sechdrs[i].sh_addr;
>  			kbuf->image->start += kbuf->mem + offset;
>  		}
> 
> -- 
> 2.40.0.348.gf938b09366-goog-b4-0.11.0-dev-696ae
> 
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