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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2025-11-06 15:13:50 -0800
committerDave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>2026-01-05 18:05:55 -0700
commit269031b15c1433ff39e30fa7ea3ab8f0be9d6ae2 (patch)
tree499fa4b00af62e864b1dcf1f946c7efb2d1f265d
parent9ace4753a5202b02191d54e9fdf7f9e3d02b85eb (diff)
x86/kaslr: Recognize all ZONE_DEVICE users as physaddr consumers
Commit 7ffb791423c7 ("x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems") is too narrow. The effect being mitigated in that commit is caused by ZONE_DEVICE which PCI_P2PDMA has a dependency. ZONE_DEVICE, in general, lets any physical address be added to the direct-map. I.e. not only ACPI hotplug ranges, CXL Memory Windows, or EFI Specific Purpose Memory, but also any PCI MMIO range for the DEVICE_PRIVATE and PCI_P2PDMA cases. Update the mitigation, limit KASLR entropy, to apply in all ZONE_DEVICE=y cases. Distro kernels typically have PCI_P2PDMA=y, so the practical exposure of this problem is limited to the PCI_P2PDMA=n case. A potential path to recover entropy would be to walk ACPI and determine the limits for hotplug and PCI MMIO before kernel_randomize_memory(). On smaller systems that could yield some KASLR address bits. This needs additional investigation to determine if some limited ACPI table scanning can happen this early without an open coded solution like arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c needs to deploy. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Fixes: 7ffb791423c7 ("x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://patch.msgid.link/692e08b2516d4_261c1100a3@dwillia2-mobl4.notmuch Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c10
-rw-r--r--drivers/pci/Kconfig6
-rw-r--r--mm/Kconfig12
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
index 3c306de52fd4..834641c6049a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
@@ -115,12 +115,12 @@ void __init kernel_randomize_memory(void)
/*
* Adapt physical memory region size based on available memory,
- * except when CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA is enabled. P2PDMA exposes the
- * device BAR space assuming the direct map space is large enough
- * for creating a ZONE_DEVICE mapping in the direct map corresponding
- * to the physical BAR address.
+ * except when CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE is enabled. ZONE_DEVICE wants to map
+ * any physical address into the direct-map. KASLR wants to reliably
+ * steal some physical address bits. Those design choices are in direct
+ * conflict.
*/
- if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA) && (memory_tb < kaslr_regions[0].size_tb))
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE) && (memory_tb < kaslr_regions[0].size_tb))
kaslr_regions[0].size_tb = memory_tb;
/*
diff --git a/drivers/pci/Kconfig b/drivers/pci/Kconfig
index 00b0210e1f1d..e3f848ffb52a 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/pci/Kconfig
@@ -225,12 +225,6 @@ config PCI_P2PDMA
P2P DMA transactions must be between devices behind the same root
port.
- Enabling this option will reduce the entropy of x86 KASLR memory
- regions. For example - on a 46 bit system, the entropy goes down
- from 16 bits to 15 bits. The actual reduction in entropy depends
- on the physical address bits, on processor features, kernel config
- (5 level page table) and physical memory present on the system.
-
If unsure, say N.
config PCI_LABEL
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index bd0ea5454af8..a992f2203eb9 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1220,10 +1220,14 @@ config ZONE_DEVICE
Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
- "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
- mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
-
- If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.
+ "device-physical" addresses which is needed for DAX, PCI_P2PDMA, and
+ DEVICE_PRIVATE features among others.
+
+ Enabling this option will reduce the entropy of x86 KASLR memory
+ regions. For example - on a 46 bit system, the entropy goes down
+ from 16 bits to 15 bits. The actual reduction in entropy depends
+ on the physical address bits, on processor features, kernel config
+ (5 level page table) and physical memory present on the system.
#
# Helpers to mirror range of the CPU page tables of a process into device page