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From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] vsprintf: Add command line option debug_early_boot
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 09:07:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1525388861-27018-5-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1525388861-27018-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc>
Currently printing [hashed] pointers requires either a hw RNG or enough
entropy to be available. Early in the boot sequence these conditions
may not be met resulting in a dummy string '(____ptrval____)' being
printed. This makes debugging the early boot sequence difficult. We
can relax the requirement to use cryptographically secure hashing during
debugging. This enables debugging while keeping development/production
kernel behaviour the same.
If new command line option debug_early_boot is enabled use
cryptographically insecure hashing and hash pointer value immediately.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++++++++
lib/vsprintf.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index b8d1379aa039..ab619c4ccbf2 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -748,6 +748,14 @@
debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level).
+ debug_early_boot
+ [KNL] Enable debugging early in the boot sequence. If
+ enabled, we use a weak hash instead of siphash to hash
+ pointers. Use this option if you need to see pointer
+ values during early boot (i.e you are seeing instances
+ of '(___ptrval___)') - cryptographically insecure,
+ please do not use on production kernels.
+
debug_locks_verbose=
[KNL] verbose self-tests
Format=<0|1>
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 3697a19c2b25..2c48884f00eb 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1654,6 +1654,18 @@ char *device_node_string(char *buf, char *end, struct device_node *dn,
return widen_string(buf, buf - buf_start, end, spec);
}
+/* Make pointers available for printing early in the boot sequence. */
+static int debug_early_boot __ro_after_init;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(debug_early_boot);
+
+static int __init debug_early_boot_enable(char *str)
+{
+ debug_early_boot = 1;
+ pr_info("debug_early_boot enabled\n");
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("debug_early_boot", debug_early_boot_enable);
+
static bool have_filled_random_ptr_key __read_mostly;
static siphash_key_t ptr_key __read_mostly;
@@ -1707,6 +1719,12 @@ static char *ptr_to_id(char *buf, char *end, void *ptr, struct printf_spec spec)
const char *str = sizeof(ptr) == 8 ? "(____ptrval____)" : "(ptrval)";
unsigned long hashval;
+ /* When debugging early boot use non-cryptographically secure hash */
+ if (unlikely(debug_early_boot)) {
+ hashval = hash_long((unsigned long)ptr, 32);
+ return pointer_string(buf, end, (const void *)hashval, spec);
+ }
+
if (unlikely(!have_filled_random_ptr_key)) {
spec.field_width = 2 * sizeof(ptr);
/* string length must be less than default_width */
--
2.7.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-03 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-03 23:07 [PATCH v3 0/4] enable early printing of hashed pointers Tobin C. Harding
2018-05-03 23:07 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] random: Fix whitespace pre random-bytes work Tobin C. Harding
2018-05-03 23:07 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] random: Return nbytes filled from hw RNG Tobin C. Harding
2018-05-03 23:07 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] vsprintf: Use hw RNG for ptr_key Tobin C. Harding
2018-05-03 23:07 ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]
2018-05-04 0:09 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] vsprintf: Add command line option debug_early_boot Steven Rostedt
2018-05-04 2:23 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] enable early printing of hashed pointers Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-04 3:50 ` Tobin C. Harding
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