[RFC PATCH 10/10] powerpc/fsl_booke/kaslr: dump out kernel offset information on panic

Jason Yan yanaijie at huawei.com
Wed Jul 17 18:06:21 AEST 2019


When kaslr is enabled, the kernel offset is different for every boot.
This brings some difficult to debug the kernel. Dump out the kernel
offset when panic so that we can easily debug the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie at huawei.com>
Cc: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun at nxp.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h     |  5 +++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c  | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
index 60a68d3a54b1..cd3ac530e58d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -317,6 +317,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 
 extern unsigned long kimage_vaddr;
 
+static inline unsigned long kaslr_offset(void)
+{
+	return kimage_vaddr - KERNELBASE;
+}
+
 #include <asm-generic/memory_model.h>
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 #include <asm/slice.h>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index c4ed328a7b96..078fe3d76feb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
 	VMCOREINFO_STRUCT_SIZE(mmu_psize_def);
 	VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(mmu_psize_def, shift);
 #endif
+	vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n", kaslr_offset());
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index 1f8db666468d..49e540c0adeb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -715,12 +715,35 @@ static struct notifier_block ppc_panic_block = {
 	.priority = INT_MIN /* may not return; must be done last */
 };
 
+/*
+ * Dump out kernel offset information on panic.
+ */
+static int dump_kernel_offset(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long v,
+			      void *p)
+{
+	const unsigned long offset = kaslr_offset();
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && offset > 0)
+		pr_emerg("Kernel Offset: 0x%lx from 0x%lx\n",
+			 offset, KERNELBASE);
+	else
+		pr_emerg("Kernel Offset: disabled\n");
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block kernel_offset_notifier = {
+	.notifier_call = dump_kernel_offset
+};
+
 void __init setup_panic(void)
 {
 	/* PPC64 always does a hard irq disable in its panic handler */
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC64) && !ppc_md.panic)
 		return;
 	atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &ppc_panic_block);
+	atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list,
+				       &kernel_offset_notifier);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CHECK_CACHE_COHERENCY
-- 
2.17.2



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