From: Arvind Sankar <nivedita-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp-Gina5bIWoIWzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>,
Sergey Shatunov <me-fHUSW+XspFU@public.gmane.org>,
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Donovan Tremura
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Harald Hoyer <harald-PnQE6hpDOpmlVyrhU4qvOw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 12:01:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200406160148.GB113388@rani.riverdale.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXG+34-bK1XuxX5VopkRt1SV1ewUAEmif+aQj5cJQ=9vbA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 03:29:18PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > >
> > > > Actually, it may be sufficient to #define __efistub_global to
> > > > __section(.data) like we already do for ARM, to ensure that these
> > > > global flags are always initialized correctly. (I'll wait for Sergey
> > > > to confirm that the spurious enabling of the PCI DMA protection
> > > > resulting from this BSS issue is causing the boot regression)
> >
> > Yeah I thought of that as the easiest fix, but it might be safer to
> > explicitly zero-init in efi_main to avoid future problems in case
> > someone adds another variable in bss and isn't aware of this obscure
> > requirement. We actually already have sys_table in bss, but that one is
> > always initialized. There's also other globals that aren't annotated
> > (but not in bss by virtue of having initializers). What do you think?
> >
>
> *If* we zero init BSS, I'd prefer for it to be done in the EFI
> handover protocol entrypoint only. But does that fix the issue that
> BSS lives outside of the memory footprint of the kernel image?
>
Yes, I was thinking of only doing it if we didn't come through the
pe_entry. We could also avoid re-parsing the command line if we add a
global flag to indicate that.
Regarding the memory footprint, if there's no initrd that might be a
problem, since in that case ImageSize will only cover the actual data
from the bzImage, so it would be safer to move them to data (including
sys_table).
We could just pull the stub's bss section all into data with objcopy
similar to what ARM64 does [1]? i.e. rename .bss to .bss.efistub and
then pull that into .data in the linker script for the compressed
kernel?
There is also this scary looking comment in gnu-efi's linker script:
/* the EFI loader doesn't seem to like a .bss section, so we stick
it all into .data: */
I don't know what the history of that is.
[1] As an aside, why doesn't ARM do this as well rather than using the
section(.data) annotation?
>
> > What do you think of the other problem -- that's actually worse to fix,
> > as it won't just be when kaslr is disabled, the startup_64 code will do
> > relocation to the end of init_size and clobber the initrd before getting
> > to the kaslr code, so it will break as soon as the firmware loads the
> > "unified kernel image" at a 2Mb-aligned address. The only thing I can
> > think of is to just unconditionally call efi_relocate_kernel if we were
> > entered via handover_entry?
> >
>
> Yes, that seems to be the most robust approach.
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2020-04-06 3:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06 7:32 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-06 8:47 ` Borislav Petkov
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2020-04-06 9:11 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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2020-04-06 11:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-06 13:22 ` Arvind Sankar
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2020-04-06 13:29 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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2020-04-06 16:01 ` Arvind Sankar [this message]
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2020-04-06 16:22 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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2020-04-06 16:52 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06 16:59 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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2020-04-06 18:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] efi/x86: Move efi stub globals from .bss to .data Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06 18:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] efi/x86: Always relocate the kernel for EFI handover entry Arvind Sankar
[not found] ` <20200406180614.429454-1-nivedita-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
2020-04-06 18:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] efi/x86: Move efi stub globals from .bss to .data Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-08 7:43 ` Dave Young
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2020-04-08 7:49 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-09 14:39 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-09 14:47 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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2020-04-09 16:35 ` Arvind Sankar
[not found] ` <20200409163530.GA785575-ZaHV2fEG+eCZQHugZx4kin66tl449arB@public.gmane.org>
2020-04-10 14:47 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-10 15:26 ` Ard Biesheuvel
[not found] ` <CAMj1kXHMQgnmdoA+qKLGa=gYg4J2p-DU3-K1LiM=AT61pi+Fvw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2020-04-14 14:57 ` Daniel Kiper
2020-04-10 11:26 ` Thomas Meyer
2020-04-10 14:38 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-11 8:50 ` Thomas Meyer
2020-04-06 17:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage Borislav Petkov
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