From 3c36b419b111e28a657e6534aae07964a98a5ca9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Hildenbrand Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:50:03 -0700 Subject: fs/proc/kcore: drop KCORE_REMAP and KCORE_OTHER Patch series "fs/proc/kcore: don't read offline sections, logically offline pages and hwpoisoned pages", v3. Looking for places where the kernel might unconditionally read PageOffline() pages, I stumbled over /proc/kcore; turns out /proc/kcore needs some more love to not touch some other pages we really don't want to read -- i.e., hwpoisoned ones. Examples for PageOffline() pages are pages inflated in a balloon, memory unplugged via virtio-mem, and partially-present sections in memory added by the Hyper-V balloon. When reading pages inflated in a balloon, we essentially produce unnecessary load in the hypervisor; holes in partially present sections in case of Hyper-V are not accessible and already were a problem for /proc/vmcore, fixed in makedumpfile by detecting PageOffline() pages. In the future, virtio-mem might disallow reading unplugged memory -- marked as PageOffline() -- in some environments, resulting in undefined behavior when accessed; therefore, I'm trying to identify and rework all these (corner) cases. With this series, there is really only access via /dev/mem, /proc/vmcore and kdb left after I ripped out /dev/kmem. kdb is an advanced corner-case use case -- we won't care for now if someone explicitly tries to do nasty things by reading from/writing to physical addresses we better not touch. /dev/mem is a use case we won't support for virtio-mem, at least for now, so we'll simply disallow mapping any virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem next. /proc/vmcore is really only a problem when dumping the old kernel via something that's not makedumpfile (read: basically never), however, we'll try sanitizing that as well in the second kernel in the future. Tested via kcore_dump: https://github.com/schlafwandler/kcore_dump This patch (of 6): Commit db779ef67ffe ("proc/kcore: Remove unused kclist_add_remap()") removed the last user of KCORE_REMAP. Commit 595dd46ebfc1 ("vfs/proc/kcore, x86/mm/kcore: Fix SMAP fault when dumping vsyscall user page") removed the last user of KCORE_OTHER. Let's drop both types. While at it, also drop vaddr in "struct kcore_list", used by KCORE_REMAP only. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Steven Price Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Aili Yao Cc: Jiri Bohac Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/kcore.h | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/kcore.h') diff --git a/include/linux/kcore.h b/include/linux/kcore.h index da676cdbd727..86c0f1d18998 100644 --- a/include/linux/kcore.h +++ b/include/linux/kcore.h @@ -11,14 +11,11 @@ enum kcore_type { KCORE_RAM, KCORE_VMEMMAP, KCORE_USER, - KCORE_OTHER, - KCORE_REMAP, }; struct kcore_list { struct list_head list; unsigned long addr; - unsigned long vaddr; size_t size; int type; }; -- cgit v1.2.3