From: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: fuqiang wang <fuqiang.wang@easystack.cn>,
x86@kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT
AND 64-BIT))
Subject: [PATCH v6 1/2] x86/kexec: fix potential cmem->ranges out of memory
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 17:38:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250904093855.1180154-1-coxu@redhat.com> (raw)
From: fuqiang wang <fuqiang.wang@easystack.cn>
In memmap_exclude_ranges(), elfheader will be excluded from crashk_res.
In the current x86 architecture code, the elfheader is always allocated
at crashk_res.start. It seems that there won't be a new split range.
But it depends on the allocation position of elfheader in crashk_res. To
avoid potential out of memory in future, add a extra slot. Otherwise
loading the kdump kernel will fail because crash_exclude_mem_range will
return -ENOMEM. random kexec_buf for passing dm crypt keys may cause a
range split too,
add another extra slot here.
The similar issue also exists in fill_up_crash_elf_data(). The range to
be excluded is [0, 1M], start (0) is special and will not appear in the
middle of existing cmem->ranges[]. But in cast the low 1M could be
changed in the future, add a extra slot too.
Previously discussed link:
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kexec/ZXk2oBf%2FT1Ul6o0c@MiWiFi-R3L-srv/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/kexec/273284e8-7680-4f5f-8065-c5d780987e59@easystack.cn/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/kexec/ZYQ6O%2F57sHAPxTHm@MiWiFi-R3L-srv/
Signed-off-by: fuqiang wang <fuqiang.wang@easystack.cn>
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
---
v5->v6:
- rebase onto v6.17-rc4
v4->v5 (Baoquan):
- This is on top of Coiby's LUKS patchset in branch mm-nonmm-unstable of
akpm/mm.git. I did some adaption based on Coiby's patches.
- [PATCH v9 0/8] Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
index c6b12bed173d..5efdcd95a283 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
@@ -165,8 +165,18 @@ static struct crash_mem *fill_up_crash_elf_data(void)
/*
* Exclusion of crash region, crashk_low_res and/or crashk_cma_ranges
* may cause range splits. So add extra slots here.
+ *
+ * Exclusion of low 1M may not cause another range split, because the
+ * range of exclude is [0, 1M] and the condition for splitting a new
+ * region is that the start, end parameters are both in a certain
+ * existing region in cmem and cannot be equal to existing region's
+ * start or end. Obviously, the start of [0, 1M] cannot meet this
+ * condition.
+ *
+ * But in order to lest the low 1M could be changed in the future,
+ * (e.g. [start, 1M]), add a extra slot.
*/
- nr_ranges += 2 + crashk_cma_cnt;
+ nr_ranges += 3 + crashk_cma_cnt;
cmem = vzalloc(struct_size(cmem, ranges, nr_ranges));
if (!cmem)
return NULL;
@@ -323,10 +333,15 @@ int crash_setup_memmap_entries(struct kimage *image, struct boot_params *params)
struct crash_mem *cmem;
/*
- * Using random kexec_buf for passing dm crypt keys may cause a range
- * split. So use two slots here.
+ * In the current x86 architecture code, the elfheader is always
+ * allocated at crashk_res.start. But it depends on the allocation
+ * position of elfheader in crashk_res. To avoid potential out of
+ * bounds in future, add an extra slot.
+ *
+ * And using random kexec_buf for passing dm crypt keys may cause a
+ * range split too, add another extra slot here.
*/
- nr_ranges = 2;
+ nr_ranges = 3;
cmem = vzalloc(struct_size(cmem, ranges, nr_ranges));
if (!cmem)
return -ENOMEM;
base-commit: b320789d6883cc00ac78ce83bccbfe7ed58afcf0
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-04 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-04 9:38 Coiby Xu [this message]
2025-09-04 9:38 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] crash: Add KUnit tests for crash_exclude_mem_range Coiby Xu
2025-09-08 21:25 ` kernel test robot
2025-09-15 6:17 ` Coiby Xu
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