Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] arm64/mm: Create initial page tables in init_pg_dir

From: James Morse
Date: Fri Jul 06 2018 - 10:41:16 EST


Hi Jun,

On 06/07/18 09:58, James Morse wrote:
> The series so far fails to boot from me. This is because the kaslr code tries to
> read the kaslr-seed from the DT, via the fixmap. To do this, it needs the fixmap
> tables installed, which early_fixmap_init() does.
>
> early_fixmap_init() calls pgd_offset_k(), which assumes init_mm.pgd is in use,
> so we hit a BUG_ON() when trying to setup the fixmap because we added the tables
> to the wrong page tables.
>
> If you enable 'CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE', even without EFI you should see the same
> thing happen.
>
>
> I think we should move this hunk:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
>> index 30ad2f085d1f..b065c08d4008 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
>> @@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>> init_mm.end_code = (unsigned long) _etext;
>> init_mm.end_data = (unsigned long) _edata;
>> init_mm.brk = (unsigned long) _end;
>> + init_mm.pgd = init_pg_dir;
>>
>> *cmdline_p = boot_command_line;
>>
>
> into early_fixmap_init(), which is the first thing setup_arch() calls.
> Something like [0] fixes it.
>
> This looks to be the only thing that goes near init_mm.pgd before paging_init().

I missed one: head.S has a call to kasan_early_init() before start_kernel(),
this goes messing with the page tables, and calls pgd_offset_k(), which pulls in
swapper_pg_dir. This one is enabled by CONFIG_KASAN.

Something like that same hunk [0] in kasan_early_init() fixes it. This is still
within arch/arm64, so I still think we should get away without some #ifdeffery
to override the core-code's initial setup of swapper_pg_dir...

Thanks,

James


> [0] make sure fixmap tables go in the init page tables
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index 117d080639b3..e097c78a66f8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -770,6 +771,13 @@ void __init early_fixmap_init(void)
> pmd_t *pmdp;
> unsigned long addr = FIXADDR_START;
>
> + /*
> + * During early setup we use init_pg_dir, update init_mm so its
> + * implicit use by pgd_offset_k() gets the live page tables.
> + * swapper_pg_dir is restored by paging_init().
> + */
> + init_mm.pgd = init_pg_dir;
> +
> pgdp = pgd_offset_k(addr);
> pgd = READ_ONCE(*pgdp);
> if (CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 3 &&
>
>
>