Since the referenced fixes commit, the kernel's .text section is only
mapped starting from _stext; the region [_text, _stext) is omitted. As a
result, other vmalloc/vmap allocations may use the virtual addresses
nominally in the range [_text, _stext). This address reuse confuses
multiple things:
1. crash_prepare_elf64_headers() sets up a segment in /proc/vmcore
mapping the entire range [_text, _end) to
[__pa_symbol(_text), __pa_symbol(_end)). Reading an address in
[_text, _stext) from /proc/vmcore therefore gives the incorrect
result.
2. Tools doing symbolization (either by reading /proc/kallsyms or based
on the vmlinux ELF file) will incorrectly identify vmalloc/vmap
allocations in [_text, _stext) as kernel symbols.
In practice, both of these issues affect the drgn debugger.
Specifically, there were cases where the vmap IRQ stacks for some CPUs
were allocated in [_text, _stext). As a result, drgn could not get the
stack trace for a crash in an IRQ handler because the core dump
contained invalid data for the IRQ stack address. The stack addresses
were also symbolized as being in the _text symbol.
Fix this by bringing back the mapping of [_text, _stext), but now make
it non-executable and read-only. This prevents other allocations from
using it while still achieving the original goal of not mapping
unpredictable data as executable. Other than the changed protection,
this is effectively a revert of the fixes commit.
Fixes: e2a073dde921 ("arm64: omit [_text, _stext) from permanent kernel mapping")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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