arm64: permit ACPI core to map kernel memory used for table overrides

Jonathan reports that the strict policy for memory mapped by the
ACPI core breaks the use case of passing ACPI table overrides via
initramfs. This is due to the fact that the memory type used for
loading the initramfs in memory is not recognized as a memory type
that is typically used by firmware to pass firmware tables.

Since the purpose of the strict policy is to ensure that no AML or
other ACPI code can manipulate any memory that is used by the kernel
to keep its internal state or the state of user tasks, we can relax
the permission check, and allow mappings of memory that is reserved
and marked as NOMAP via memblock, and therefore not covered by the
linear mapping to begin with.

Fixes: 1583052d111f ("arm64/acpi: disallow AML memory opregions to access kernel memory")
Fixes: 325f5585ec36 ("arm64/acpi: disallow writeable AML opregion mapping for EFI code regions")
Reported-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200929132522.18067-1-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c
index a85174d05473..cada0b816c8a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c
@@ -298,8 +298,21 @@ void __iomem *acpi_os_ioremap(acpi_physical_address phys, acpi_size size)
 		case EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA:
 		case EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY:
 		case EFI_PERSISTENT_MEMORY:
-			pr_warn(FW_BUG "requested region covers kernel memory @ %pa\n", &phys);
-			return NULL;
+			if (memblock_is_map_memory(phys) ||
+			    !memblock_is_region_memory(phys, size)) {
+				pr_warn(FW_BUG "requested region covers kernel memory @ %pa\n", &phys);
+				return NULL;
+			}
+			/*
+			 * Mapping kernel memory is permitted if the region in
+			 * question is covered by a single memblock with the
+			 * NOMAP attribute set: this enables the use of ACPI
+			 * table overrides passed via initramfs, which are
+			 * reserved in memory using arch_reserve_mem_area()
+			 * below. As this particular use case only requires
+			 * read access, fall through to the R/O mapping case.
+			 */
+			fallthrough;
 
 		case EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE:
 			/*
@@ -388,3 +401,8 @@ int apei_claim_sea(struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	return err;
 }
+
+void arch_reserve_mem_area(acpi_physical_address addr, size_t size)
+{
+	memblock_mark_nomap(addr, size);
+}