From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: fix acpi table use after free
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 19:29:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0hAQo7+3bthoC8K7n7qyhQFMuOd8U3BhZWSREjPmq0-7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YEe2SAESEaEak+HB@linux.ibm.com>
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:54 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 09:46:22AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Hello Rafael,
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 02:30:07PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:14 AM George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The ibft table, for example, is mapped in via acpi_map() and kmap(). The
> > > > page for the ibft table is not reserved, so it can end up on the freelist.
> > >
> > > You appear to be saying that it is not sufficient to kmap() a page in
> > > order to use it safely. It is also necessary to reserve it upfront,
> > > for example with the help of memblock_reserve(). Is that correct? If
> > > so, is there an alternative way to reserve a page frame?
> >
> > Like David said in the other reply, if a BIOS does not mark the memory that
> > contains an ACPI table as used (e.g. reserved or ACPI data), we need to
> > make sure the kernel knows that such memory is in use and an early call to
> > memblock_reserve() is exactly what we need here.
> > George had this issue with iBFT, but in general this could be any table
> > that a buggy BIOS forgot to mark as ACPI data.
>
> BTW, I wonder is there a fundamental reason to use ioremap() to access ACPI
> tables at all?
> In the end, they reside in RAM and, apparently, they live at the same DIMM
> as neighboring "normal memory" so why cannot we just map them normally as
> read-only not executable?
This may be NVS memory (depending on the configuration of the system)
which isn't "normal" RAM AFAICS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-09 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-03 20:09 [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: fix acpi table use after free George Kennedy
2021-03-04 12:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-04 23:14 ` George Kennedy
2021-03-05 13:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-05 13:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-05 15:24 ` George Kennedy
2021-03-10 18:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-10 18:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-10 19:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-10 19:38 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-10 19:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-11 15:36 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-14 18:59 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-15 16:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-15 18:05 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-17 20:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-17 22:28 ` George Kennedy
2021-03-18 15:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-18 7:25 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-18 10:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-18 15:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-20 8:25 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-22 16:57 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-23 19:26 ` [PATCH] ACPI: tables: x86: Reserve memory occupied by ACPI tables Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-24 8:24 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-24 13:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-24 13:49 ` George Kennedy
2021-03-24 15:42 ` George Kennedy
2021-03-24 15:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-03-07 7:46 ` [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: fix acpi table use after free Mike Rapoport
2021-03-09 17:54 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-09 18:29 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2021-03-09 20:16 ` Mike Rapoport
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