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

[Jason Yan]

On 2019/7/26 15:04, Diana Madalina Craciun wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> 
> I have briefly tested yesterday on a P4080 board and did not see any
> issues. I do not have much expertise on KASLR, but I will take a look
> over the code.
> 

Hi Diana, thanks. Looking forward to your suggestions.

> Regards,
> Diana
> 
> On 7/25/2019 10:16 AM, Jason Yan wrote:
>> Hi all, any comments?
>>
>>
>> On 2019/7/17 16:06, 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.
>>>
>>> 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 |  23 +-
>>>    arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S          |  61 ++-
>>>    arch/powerpc/kernel/kaslr_booke.c             | 439 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>    arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c           |   1 +
>>>    arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S                 |   5 -
>>>    arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c            |  23 +
>>>    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, 580 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>>>    create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/kaslr_booke.c
>>>
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