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Revision bbcd53c960713507ae764bf81970651b5577b95a authored by David Hildenbrand on 07 May 2021, 01:05:55 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 07 May 2021, 07:26:34 UTC 
drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good
 
Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good".

Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem.

Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be
able to deal with things like

a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem)
  -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient.

b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched
  -> mem_pfn_is_ram()

Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might
fault/crash the machine.

Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1],
after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion.

CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by
mistake?).  All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled
for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least
starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from
15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well.

1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled
   basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of
   /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.".
   RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to
   serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers
   to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching"

2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read
   kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to
   deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned
   pages, though)

3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a
   better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot
   yourself into the foot.

4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems
   to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes,
   /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older
   kernels can be used.

5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there.

Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better
suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's
just remove it.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
[2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled
[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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extable.c 
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
/*
 * Derived from arch/ppc/mm/extable.c and arch/i386/mm/extable.c.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2004 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp.
 */

#include <linux/bsearch.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/extable.h>

#ifndef ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE
#define ex_to_insn(x)	((x)->insn)
#else
static inline unsigned long ex_to_insn(const struct exception_table_entry *x)
{
	return (unsigned long)&x->insn + x->insn;
}
#endif

#ifndef ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE
#define swap_ex		NULL
#else
static void swap_ex(void *a, void *b, int size)
{
	struct exception_table_entry *x = a, *y = b, tmp;
	int delta = b - a;

	tmp = *x;
	x->insn = y->insn + delta;
	y->insn = tmp.insn - delta;

#ifdef swap_ex_entry_fixup
	swap_ex_entry_fixup(x, y, tmp, delta);
#else
	x->fixup = y->fixup + delta;
	y->fixup = tmp.fixup - delta;
#endif
}
#endif /* ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE */

/*
 * The exception table needs to be sorted so that the binary
 * search that we use to find entries in it works properly.
 * This is used both for the kernel exception table and for
 * the exception tables of modules that get loaded.
 */
static int cmp_ex_sort(const void *a, const void *b)
{
	const struct exception_table_entry *x = a, *y = b;

	/* avoid overflow */
	if (ex_to_insn(x) > ex_to_insn(y))
		return 1;
	if (ex_to_insn(x) < ex_to_insn(y))
		return -1;
	return 0;
}

void sort_extable(struct exception_table_entry *start,
		  struct exception_table_entry *finish)
{
	sort(start, finish - start, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry),
	     cmp_ex_sort, swap_ex);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
/*
 * If the exception table is sorted, any referring to the module init
 * will be at the beginning or the end.
 */
void trim_init_extable(struct module *m)
{
	/*trim the beginning*/
	while (m->num_exentries &&
	       within_module_init(ex_to_insn(&m->extable[0]), m)) {
		m->extable++;
		m->num_exentries--;
	}
	/*trim the end*/
	while (m->num_exentries &&
	       within_module_init(ex_to_insn(&m->extable[m->num_exentries - 1]),
				  m))
		m->num_exentries--;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */

static int cmp_ex_search(const void *key, const void *elt)
{
	const struct exception_table_entry *_elt = elt;
	unsigned long _key = *(unsigned long *)key;

	/* avoid overflow */
	if (_key > ex_to_insn(_elt))
		return 1;
	if (_key < ex_to_insn(_elt))
		return -1;
	return 0;
}

/*
 * Search one exception table for an entry corresponding to the
 * given instruction address, and return the address of the entry,
 * or NULL if none is found.
 * We use a binary search, and thus we assume that the table is
 * already sorted.
 */
const struct exception_table_entry *
search_extable(const struct exception_table_entry *base,
	       const size_t num,
	       unsigned long value)
{
	return bsearch(&value, base, num,
		       sizeof(struct exception_table_entry), cmp_ex_search);
}
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