Recently arm64 linux kernel added support for Armv8.3-A Pointer
Authentication feature. If this feature is enabled in the kernel and the
hardware supports address authentication then the return addresses are
signed and stored in the stack to prevent ROP kind of attack. Kdump tool
will now dump the kernel with signed lr values in the stack.
Any user analysis tool for this kernel dump may need the kernel pac mask
information in vmcoreinfo to generate the correct return address for
stacktrace purpose as well as to resolve the symbol name.
This patch is similar to commit ec6e822d1a ("arm64: expose user PAC
bit positions via ptrace") which exposes pac mask information via ptrace
interfaces.
The config gaurd ARM64_PTR_AUTH is removed form asm/compiler.h so macros
like ptrauth_kernel_pac_mask can be used ungaurded. This config protection
is confusing as the pointer authentication feature may be missing at
runtime even though this config is present.
Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1589202116-18265-1-git-send-email-amit.kachhap@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Since commit 23c85094fe ("proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore")
the kernel has exported the vmcoreinfo PT_NOTE on /proc/kcore as well
as /proc/vmcore.
arm64 only exposes it's additional arch information via
arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo() if built with CONFIG_KEXEC, as kdump was
previously the only user of vmcoreinfo.
Move this weak function to a separate file that is built at the same
time as its caller in kernel/crash_core.c. This ensures values like
'kimage_voffset' are always present in the vmcoreinfo PT_NOTE.
CC: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Amit Daniel Kachhap