ACPI: tables: x86: Reserve memory occupied by ACPI tables
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:26:52 +0000 (20:26 +0100)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:26:04 +0000 (19:26 +0200)
commit1a1c130ab7575498eed5bcf7220037ae09cd1f8a
treefe570b16cd0597b532b12981ec4965258e667298
parenta5e13c6df0e41702d2b2c77c8ad41677ebb065b3
ACPI: tables: x86: Reserve memory occupied by ACPI tables

The following problem has been reported by George Kennedy:

 Since commit 7fef431be9c9 ("mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail
 in __free_pages_core()") the following use after free occurs
 intermittently when ACPI tables are accessed.

 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ibft_init+0x134/0xc49
 Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880be453004 by task swapper/0/1
 CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc1-7a7fd0d #1
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0xf6/0x158
  print_address_description.constprop.9+0x41/0x60
  kasan_report.cold.14+0x7b/0xd4
  __asan_report_load_n_noabort+0xf/0x20
  ibft_init+0x134/0xc49
  do_one_initcall+0xc4/0x3e0
  kernel_init_freeable+0x5af/0x66b
  kernel_init+0x16/0x1d0
  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

 ACPI tables mapped via kmap() do not have their mapped pages
 reserved and the pages can be "stolen" by the buddy allocator.

Apparently, on the affected system, the ACPI table in question is
not located in "reserved" memory, like ACPI NVS or ACPI Data, that
will not be used by the buddy allocator, so the memory occupied by
that table has to be explicitly reserved to prevent the buddy
allocator from using it.

In order to address this problem, rearrange the initialization of the
ACPI tables on x86 to locate the initial tables earlier and reserve
the memory occupied by them.

The other architectures using ACPI should not be affected by this
change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/1614802160-29362-1-git-send-email-george.kennedy@oracle.com/
Reported-by: George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com>
Tested-by: George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: 5.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.10+
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
drivers/acpi/tables.c
include/linux/acpi.h