Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/compressed: Exclude 'top_pgtable' from relocation

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>]

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 08:42:30PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2018, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> > startup_64() copies kernel (including .data section) to the new place.
> > It's required for safe in-place decompression.
> > 
> > This is a problem if the original place is referenced: by mistake I've
> > put 'top_pgtable' into .data section and the address is loaded into CR3.
> > If the original place gets overwritten during image decompression the
> > kernel will crash and the machine will be rebooted.
> > 
> > Move 'top_pgtable' into .pgtable section where the rest of page tables
> > are. This section is not subject for relocation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> > Fixes: e9d0e6330eb8 ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Prepare new top-level page table for trampoline")
> 
> Thanks for the Cc, Kirill, which I presume was because I'd mentioned
> to you that I was unable to boot 4.17-rc on laptop or workstation.

Right.

> Which is still so with 4.17-rc3, and I'm sorry to say still so with this
> patch: even if I add the fix which I think this patch needs, see below.

Hm.. Could you share your config?

IIRC, you use legacy boot. What bootloader?

> I did bisect on Monday, and the first bad was your commit 194a9749c73d
> "x86/boot/compressed/64: Handle 5-level paging boot if kernel is above 4G".
> (Cc'ing Dave since his PTI Global work was my other suspect, but that's
> off the hook - if I revert just 194a9749c73d then I have no trouble.)
> 
> Am I really the only one getting immediate reboot on x86_64?

There was one more thread:

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5ecfeb13-84e4-f1ef-bd30-391674b2050a@gmail.com

But no firm conclusion, only blaming GCC without a good reason.
BTW, what compiler do you use?

> Perhaps everyone else has machines with 5-level page tables now ?-)

No :)

> I've looked at the changes a little, and tried a few things (hoping to
> avoid a long back and forth describing and trying things for you); but
> no success yet, and rather out of my depth with these changes - I've
> not had to delve into boot/compressed before.
> 
> (I did briefly get excited by the
> trampoline_32bit + TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_PGTABLE_OFFSET
> in cleanup_trampoline(), which lacks a "/ sizeof(unsigned long)";
> but since ...PGTABLE_OFFSET is 0 anyway, that's nothing but cosmetic.)

It worth fixing anyway. Thanks for pointing it out.

> > ---
> >  arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S    | 8 ++++++++
> >  arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c | 4 +---
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> > index fca012baba19..c433c21703e6 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
> > @@ -649,3 +649,11 @@ boot_stack_end:
> >  	.balign 4096
> >  pgtable:
> >  	.fill BOOT_PGT_SIZE, 1, 0
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * The page table is going to be used instead of page table in the trampoline
> > + * memory.
> > + */
> > +	.global top_pgtable
> > +top_pgtable:
> > +	.fill PAGE_SIZE, 1, 0
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
> > index 32af1cbcd903..3a0578f54550 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
> > @@ -25,10 +25,8 @@ static char trampoline_save[TRAMPOLINE_32BIT_SIZE];
> >  /*
> >   * The page table is going to be used instead of page table in the trampoline
> >   * memory.
> > - *
> > - * It must not be in BSS as BSS is cleared after cleanup_trampoline().
> >   */
> > -static char top_pgtable[PAGE_SIZE] __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) __section(.data);
> > +extern char *top_pgtable;
> 
> Doesn't that need to be extern char top_pgtable[] ?

Ouch. That's embarrassing.

So in my case the top_pgtable is zero and apparently it's good enough
place to put the page table. It boots :P

The patch is bogus and I still don't understand what is going on.

Could you please check if bypassing cleanup_trampoline() altogether fixes
the issue for you:

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
index fca012baba19..73821ac626f6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
@@ -367,16 +367,6 @@ trampoline_return:
 	/* Restore the stack, the 32-bit trampoline uses its own stack */
 	leaq	boot_stack_end(%rbx), %rsp
 
-	/*
-	 * cleanup_trampoline() would restore trampoline memory.
-	 *
-	 * RSI holds real mode data and needs to be preserved across
-	 * this function call.
-	 */
-	pushq	%rsi
-	call	cleanup_trampoline
-	popq	%rsi
-
 	/* Zero EFLAGS */
 	pushq	$0
 	popfq
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov