Today, STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is based on the use of regular pages
to map kernel pages.
On Book3s 32, it has three consequences:
- Using pages instead of BAT for mapping kernel linear memory severely
impacts performance.
- Exec protection is not effective because no-execute cannot be set at
page level (except on 603 which doesn't have hash tables)
- Write protection is not effective because PP bits do not provide RO
mode for kernel-only pages (except on 603 which handles it in software
via PAGE_DIRTY)
On the 603+, we have:
- Independent IBAT and DBAT allowing limitation of exec parts.
- NX bit can be set in segment registers to forbit execution on memory
mapped by pages.
- RO mode on DBATs even for kernel-only blocks.
On the 601, there is nothing much we can do other than warn the user
about it, because:
- BATs are common to instructions and data.
- BAT do not provide RO mode for kernel-only blocks.
- segment registers don't have the NX bit.
In order to use IBAT for exec protection, this patch:
- Aligns _etext to BAT block sizes (128kb)
- Set NX bit in kernel segment register (Except on vmalloc area when
CONFIG_MODULES is selected)
- Maps kernel text with IBATs.
In order to use DBAT for exec protection, this patch:
- Aligns RW DATA to BAT block sizes (4M)
- Maps kernel RO area with write prohibited DBATs
- Maps remaining memory with remaining DBATs
Here is what we get with this patch on a 832x when activating
STRICT_KERNEL_RWX:
Symbols:
c0000000 T _stext
c0680000 R __start_rodata
c0680000 R _etext
c0800000 T __init_begin
c0800000 T _sinittext
~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/block_address_translation
---[ Instruction Block Address Translation ]---
0: 0xc0000000-0xc03fffff 0x00000000 Kernel EXEC coherent
1: 0xc0400000-0xc05fffff 0x00400000 Kernel EXEC coherent
2: 0xc0600000-0xc067ffff 0x00600000 Kernel EXEC coherent
3: -
4: -
5: -
6: -
7: -
---[ Data Block Address Translation ]---
0: 0xc0000000-0xc07fffff 0x00000000 Kernel RO coherent
1: 0xc0800000-0xc0ffffff 0x00800000 Kernel RW coherent
2: 0xc1000000-0xc1ffffff 0x01000000 Kernel RW coherent
3: 0xc2000000-0xc3ffffff 0x02000000 Kernel RW coherent
4: 0xc4000000-0xc7ffffff 0x04000000 Kernel RW coherent
5: 0xc8000000-0xcfffffff 0x08000000 Kernel RW coherent
6: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff 0x10000000 Kernel RW coherent
7: -
~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/segment_registers
---[ User Segments ]---
0x00000000-0x0fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa085d0
0x10000000-0x1fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa086e1
0x20000000-0x2fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa087f2
0x30000000-0x3fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa08903
0x40000000-0x4fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa08a14
0x50000000-0x5fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa08b25
0x60000000-0x6fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa08c36
0x70000000-0x7fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa08d47
0x80000000-0x8fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa08e58
0x90000000-0x9fffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa08f69
0xa0000000-0xafffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa0907a
0xb0000000-0xbfffffff Kern key 1 User key 1 VSID 0xa0918b
---[ Kernel Segments ]---
0xc0000000-0xcfffffff Kern key 0 User key 1 No Exec VSID 0x000ccc
0xd0000000-0xdfffffff Kern key 0 User key 1 No Exec VSID 0x000ddd
0xe0000000-0xefffffff Kern key 0 User key 1 No Exec VSID 0x000eee
0xf0000000-0xffffffff Kern key 0 User key 1 No Exec VSID 0x000fff
Aligning _etext to 128kb allows to map up to 32Mb text with 8 IBATs:
16Mb + 8Mb + 4Mb + 2Mb + 1Mb + 512kb + 256kb + 128kb (+ 128kb) = 32Mb
(A 9th IBAT is unneeded as 32Mb would need only a single 32Mb block)
Aligning data to 4M allows to map up to 512Mb data with 8 DBATs:
16Mb + 8Mb + 4Mb + 4Mb + 32Mb + 64Mb + 128Mb + 256Mb = 512Mb
Because some processors only have 4 BATs and because some targets need
DBATs for mapping other areas, the following patch will allow to
modify _etext and data alignment.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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