kexec: align crash_notes allocation to make it be inside one physical page
People reported that crash_notes in /proc/vmcore were corrupted and this
cause crash kdump failure. With code debugging and log we got the root
cause. This is because percpu variable crash_notes are allocated in 2
vmalloc pages. Currently percpu is based on vmalloc by default. Vmalloc
can't guarantee 2 continuous vmalloc pages are also on 2 continuous
physical pages. So when 1st kernel exports the starting address and size
of crash_notes through sysfs like below:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/crash_notes
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/crash_notes_size
kdump kernel use them to get the content of crash_notes. However the 2nd
part may not be in the next neighbouring physical page as we expected if
crash_notes are allocated accross 2 vmalloc pages. That's why
nhdr_ptr->n_namesz or nhdr_ptr->n_descsz could be very huge in
update_note_header_size_elf64() and cause note header merging failure or
some warnings.
In this patch change to call __alloc_percpu() to passed in the align value
by rounding crash_notes_size up to the nearest power of two. This makes
sure the crash_notes is allocated inside one physical page since
sizeof(note_buf_t) in all ARCHS is smaller than PAGE_SIZE. Meanwhile add
a BUILD_BUG_ON to break compile if size is bigger than PAGE_SIZE since
crash_notes definitely will be in 2 pages. That need be avoided, and need
be reported if it's unavoidable.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use correct comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index 9ffc96b..322dd55 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -1004,7 +1004,28 @@
static int __init crash_notes_memory_init(void)
{
/* Allocate memory for saving cpu registers. */
- crash_notes = alloc_percpu(note_buf_t);
+ size_t size, align;
+
+ /*
+ * crash_notes could be allocated across 2 vmalloc pages when percpu
+ * is vmalloc based . vmalloc doesn't guarantee 2 continuous vmalloc
+ * pages are also on 2 continuous physical pages. In this case the
+ * 2nd part of crash_notes in 2nd page could be lost since only the
+ * starting address and size of crash_notes are exported through sysfs.
+ * Here round up the size of crash_notes to the nearest power of two
+ * and pass it to __alloc_percpu as align value. This can make sure
+ * crash_notes is allocated inside one physical page.
+ */
+ size = sizeof(note_buf_t);
+ align = min(roundup_pow_of_two(sizeof(note_buf_t)), PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ /*
+ * Break compile if size is bigger than PAGE_SIZE since crash_notes
+ * definitely will be in 2 pages with that.
+ */
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(size > PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ crash_notes = __alloc_percpu(size, align);
if (!crash_notes) {
pr_warn("Kexec: Memory allocation for saving cpu register states failed\n");
return -ENOMEM;
