x86/crash: Define arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() if CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y
authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:22:49 +0000 (08:22 -0800)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:58:41 +0000 (12:58 +0100)
commit8757dc970f550dc399f899be0e7a2c00b7e82e8f
treec42ef3b2b0ae813f37c9353542e6db34d29c0bbc
parent46cf053efec6a3a5f343fead837777efe8252a46
x86/crash: Define arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() if CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y

On x86 kernels configured with CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y and
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=n, the vmcoreinfo note in /proc/kcore is incomplete.

Specifically, it is missing arch-specific information like the KASLR
offset and whether 5-level page tables are enabled. This breaks
applications like drgn [1] and crash [2], which need this information
for live debugging via /proc/kcore.

This happens because:

1. CONFIG_PROC_KCORE selects CONFIG_CRASH_CORE.
2. kernel/crash_core.c (compiled if CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y) calls
   arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() to get the arch-specific parts of
   vmcoreinfo. If it is not defined, then it uses a no-op fallback.
3. x86 defines arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() in
   arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_*.c, which is only compiled if
   CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y.

Therefore, an x86 kernel with CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y and
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=n uses the no-op fallback and gets incomplete
vmcoreinfo data. This isn't relevant to kdump, which requires
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. It only affects applications which read vmcoreinfo at
runtime, like the ones mentioned above.

Fix it by moving arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() into two new
arch/x86/kernel/crash_core_*.c files, which are gated behind
CONFIG_CRASH_CORE.

1: https://github.com/osandov/drgn/blob/73dd7def1217e24cc83d8ca95c995decbd9ba24c/libdrgn/program.c#L385
2: https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/60a42d709280cdf38ab06327a5b4fa9d9208ef86

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Cc: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0589961254102cca23e3618b96541b89f2b249e2.1576858905.git.osandov@fb.com
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
arch/x86/kernel/crash_core_32.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/x86/kernel/crash_core_64.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c