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* [PATCH] x86: don't reserve SETUP_RNG_SEED in e820
@ 2024-01-31  0:04 Jiri Bohac
  2024-02-20 13:55 ` [PATCH RESEND] " Jiri Bohac
                   ` (4 more replies)
  0 siblings, 5 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jiri Bohac @ 2024-01-31  0:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: x86, Jason A. Donenfeld, Borislav Petkov, H. Peter Anvin
  Cc: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Dave Hansen, linux-kernel

SETUP_RNG_SEED in setup_data is supplied by kexec and should
not be reserved in the e820 map.

Doing so reserves 16 bytes of RAM when booting with kexec.
(16 bytes because data->len is zeroed by parse_setup_data so only
sizeof(setup_data) is reserved.)

When kexec is used repeatedly, each boot adds two entries in the
kexec-provided e820 map as the 16-byte range splits a larger
range of usable memory. Eventually all of the 128 available entries
get used up. The next split will result in losing usable memory
as the new entries cannot be added to the e820 map.

Fixes: 68b8e9713c8e ("x86/setup: Use rng seeds from setup_data")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
index 91ade749f184..7be1362a31aa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
@@ -1018,10 +1018,12 @@ void __init e820__reserve_setup_data(void)
 		e820__range_update(pa_data, sizeof(*data)+data->len, E820_TYPE_RAM, E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN);
 
 		/*
-		 * SETUP_EFI and SETUP_IMA are supplied by kexec and do not need
-		 * to be reserved.
+		 * SETUP_EFI, SETUP_IMA and SETUP_RNG_SEED are supplied by
+		 * kexec and do not need to be reserved.
 		 */
-		if (data->type != SETUP_EFI && data->type != SETUP_IMA)
+		if (data->type != SETUP_EFI &&
+		    data->type != SETUP_IMA &&
+		    data->type != SETUP_RNG_SEED)
 			e820__range_update_kexec(pa_data,
 						 sizeof(*data) + data->len,
 						 E820_TYPE_RAM, E820_TYPE_RESERVED_KERN);
-- 
Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, Prague, Czechia


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