[PATCH v7 10/12] powerpc/fsl_booke/kaslr: dump out kernel offset information on panic

Jason Yan yanaijie at huawei.com
Fri Sep 20 19:45:44 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.

This code is derived from x86/arm64 which has similar functionality.

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>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
Reviewed-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun at nxp.com>
Tested-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun at nxp.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h    |  5 +++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
index 4d32d1b561d6..b34b9cdd91f1 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 kernstart_virt_addr;
 
+static inline unsigned long kaslr_offset(void)
+{
+	return kernstart_virt_addr - KERNELBASE;
+}
+
 #include <asm-generic/memory_model.h>
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 #include <asm/slice.h>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index 1f8db666468d..ba1a34ab218a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -715,8 +715,28 @@ 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)
+{
+	pr_emerg("Kernel Offset: 0x%lx from 0x%lx\n",
+		 kaslr_offset(), KERNELBASE);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block kernel_offset_notifier = {
+	.notifier_call = dump_kernel_offset
+};
+
 void __init setup_panic(void)
 {
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && kaslr_offset() > 0)
+		atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list,
+					       &kernel_offset_notifier);
+
 	/* PPC64 always does a hard irq disable in its panic handler */
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC64) && !ppc_md.panic)
 		return;
-- 
2.17.2



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