[PATCH v4 00/10] implement KASLR for powerpc/fsl_booke/32

[Jason Yan]

Hi Christophe ,

Can you take a look at patch 6,7,9 of this version?

Thank you,
Jason

On 2019/8/5 14:43, Jason Yan wrote:
> This series implements KASLR for powerpc/fsl_booke/32, as a security
> feature that deters exploit attempts relying on knowledge of the location
> of kernel internals.
> 
> Since CONFIG_RELOCATABLE has already supported, what we need to do is
> map or copy kernel to a proper place and relocate. Freescale Book-E
> parts expect lowmem to be mapped by fixed TLB entries(TLB1). The TLB1
> entries are not suitable to map the kernel directly in a randomized
> region, so we chose to copy the kernel to a proper place and restart to
> relocate.
> 
> Entropy is derived from the banner and timer base, which will change every
> build and boot. This not so much safe so additionally the bootloader may
> pass entropy via the /chosen/kaslr-seed node in device tree.
> 
> We will use the first 512M of the low memory to randomize the kernel
> image. The memory will be split in 64M zones. We will use the lower 8
> bit of the entropy to decide the index of the 64M zone. Then we chose a
> 16K aligned offset inside the 64M zone to put the kernel in.
> 
>      KERNELBASE
> 
>          |-->   64M   <--|
>          |               |
>          +---------------+    +----------------+---------------+
>          |               |....|    |kernel|    |               |
>          +---------------+    +----------------+---------------+
>          |                         |
>          |----->   offset    <-----|
> 
>                                kimage_vaddr
> 
> We also check if we will overlap with some areas like the dtb area, the
> initrd area or the crashkernel area. If we cannot find a proper area,
> kaslr will be disabled and boot from the original kernel.
> 
> Changes since v3:
>   - Add Reviewed-by and Tested-by tag from Diana
>   - Change the comment in fsl_booke_entry_mapping.S to be consistent
>     with the new code.
> 
> Changes since v2:
>   - Remove unnecessary #ifdef
>   - Use SZ_64M instead of0x4000000
>   - Call early_init_dt_scan_chosen() to init boot_command_line
>   - Rename kaslr_second_init() to kaslr_late_init()
> 
> Changes since v1:
>   - Remove some useless 'extern' keyword.
>   - Replace EXPORT_SYMBOL with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>   - Improve some assembly code
>   - Use memzero_explicit instead of memset
>   - Use boot_command_line and remove early_command_line
>   - Do not print kaslr offset if kaslr is disabled
> 
> Jason Yan (10):
>    powerpc: unify definition of M_IF_NEEDED
>    powerpc: move memstart_addr and kernstart_addr to init-common.c
>    powerpc: introduce kimage_vaddr to store the kernel base
>    powerpc/fsl_booke/32: introduce create_tlb_entry() helper
>    powerpc/fsl_booke/32: introduce reloc_kernel_entry() helper
>    powerpc/fsl_booke/32: implement KASLR infrastructure
>    powerpc/fsl_booke/32: randomize the kernel image offset
>    powerpc/fsl_booke/kaslr: clear the original kernel if randomized
>    powerpc/fsl_booke/kaslr: support nokaslr cmdline parameter
>    powerpc/fsl_booke/kaslr: dump out kernel offset information on panic
> 
>   arch/powerpc/Kconfig                          |  11 +
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/mmu-book3e.h  |  10 +
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h               |   7 +
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile                  |   1 +
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/early_32.c                |   2 +-
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S          |  10 -
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/fsl_booke_entry_mapping.S |  27 +-
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S          |  55 ++-
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/kaslr_booke.c             | 427 ++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c           |   1 +
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S                 |   5 -
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c            |  19 +
>   arch/powerpc/mm/init-common.c                 |   7 +
>   arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c                     |   5 -
>   arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c                     |   5 -
>   arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_decl.h                    |  10 +
>   arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/fsl_booke.c            |   8 +-
>   17 files changed, 560 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/kaslr_booke.c
>