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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2022-01-19 18:07:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-01-20 08:52:52 +0200
commit25bc5b0de91bc5e7afa65f1face0087fb9e331c7 (patch)
tree191b667186f34db65030b871eea2e961e8b21f9f /fs/proc
parent20c035764626c56c4f6514936b9ee4be0f4cd962 (diff)
proc/vmcore: don't fake reading zeroes on surprise vmcore_cb unregistration
In commit cc5f2704c934 ("proc/vmcore: convert oldmem_pfn_is_ram callback to more generic vmcore callbacks"), we added detection of surprise vmcore_cb unregistration after the vmcore was already opened. Once detected, we warn the user and simulate reading zeroes from that point on when accessing the vmcore. The basic reason was that unexpected unregistration, for example, by manually unbinding a driver from a device after opening the vmcore, is not supported and could result in reading oldmem the vmcore_cb would have actually prohibited while registered. However, something like that can similarly be trigger by a user that's really looking for trouble simply by unbinding the relevant driver before opening the vmcore -- or by disallowing loading the driver in the first place. So it's actually of limited help. Currently, unregistration can only be triggered via virtio-mem when manually unbinding the driver from the device inside the VM; there is no way to trigger it from the hypervisor, as hypervisors don't allow for unplugging virtio-mem devices -- ripping out system RAM from a VM without coordination with the guest is usually not a good idea. The important part is that unbinding the driver and unregistering the vmcore_cb while concurrently reading the vmcore won't crash the system, and that is handled by the rwsem. To make the mechanism more future proof, let's remove the "read zero" part, but leave the warning in place. For example, we could have a future driver (like virtio-balloon) that will contact the hypervisor to figure out if we already populated a page for a given PFN. Hotunplugging such a device and consequently unregistering the vmcore_cb could be triggered from the hypervisor without harming the system even while kdump is running. In that case, we don't want to silently end up with a vmcore that contains wrong data, because the user inside the VM might be unaware of the hypervisor action and might easily miss the warning in the log. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211111192243.22002-1-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/vmcore.c10
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
index 509f85148fee..702754dd1daf 100644
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ static size_t vmcoredd_orig_sz;
static DECLARE_RWSEM(vmcore_cb_rwsem);
/* List of registered vmcore callbacks. */
static LIST_HEAD(vmcore_cb_list);
-/* Whether we had a surprise unregistration of a callback. */
-static bool vmcore_cb_unstable;
/* Whether the vmcore has been opened once. */
static bool vmcore_opened;
@@ -94,10 +92,8 @@ void unregister_vmcore_cb(struct vmcore_cb *cb)
* very unusual (e.g., forced driver removal), but we cannot stop
* unregistering.
*/
- if (vmcore_opened) {
+ if (vmcore_opened)
pr_warn_once("Unexpected vmcore callback unregistration\n");
- vmcore_cb_unstable = true;
- }
up_write(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_vmcore_cb);
@@ -108,8 +104,6 @@ static bool pfn_is_ram(unsigned long pfn)
bool ret = true;
lockdep_assert_held_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
- if (unlikely(vmcore_cb_unstable))
- return false;
list_for_each_entry(cb, &vmcore_cb_list, next) {
if (unlikely(!cb->pfn_is_ram))
@@ -581,7 +575,7 @@ static int vmcore_remap_oldmem_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* looping over all pages without a reason.
*/
down_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
- if (!list_empty(&vmcore_cb_list) || vmcore_cb_unstable)
+ if (!list_empty(&vmcore_cb_list))
ret = remap_oldmem_pfn_checked(vma, from, pfn, size, prot);
else
ret = remap_oldmem_pfn_range(vma, from, pfn, size, prot);