If someone specifically wants contiguous memory in the low-physical-
address-for-DMA range ("super pages"), they can use the
allocate_dma_buffer_pages() helper.
Ideally the x86 fault handler would only do x86 specific things and
delegate the rest of the work to MemoryManager. This patch moves some of
the address checks to a more generic place.
This avoids taking and releasing the MM lock just to reject an address
that we can tell from just looking at it that it won't ever be in the
kernel regions tree.
When the values we're setting are not actually u32s and the size of the
area we're setting is PAGE_SIZE-aligned and a multiple of PAGE_SIZE in
size, there's no point in using fast_u32_fill, as that forces us to use
STOSDs instead of STOSQs.
We were already using a non-intrusive RedBlackTree, and since the kernel
regions tree is non-owning, this is a trivial conversion that makes a
bunch of the tree operations infallible (by being allocation-free.) :^)
We were already only tracking kernel regions, this patch just makes it
more clear by having it reflected in the name of the registration
helpers.
We also stop calling them for userspace regions, avoiding some spinlock
action in such cases.
The purpose of the PageDirectory::m_page_tables map was really just
to act as ref-counting storage for PhysicalPage objects that were
being used for the directory's page tables.
However, this was basically redundant, since we can find the physical
address of each page table from the page directory, and we can find the
PhysicalPage object from MemoryManager::get_physical_page_entry().
So if we just manually ref() and unref() the pages when they go in and
out of the directory, we no longer need PageDirectory::m_page_tables!
Not only does this remove a bunch of kmalloc() traffic, it also solves
a race condition that would occur when lazily adding a new page table
to a directory:
Previously, when MemoryManager::ensure_pte() would call HashMap::set()
to insert the new page table into m_page_tables, if the HashMap had to
grow its internal storage, it would call kmalloc(). If that kmalloc()
would need to perform heap expansion, it would end up calling
ensure_pte() again, which would clobber the page directory mapping used
by the outer invocation of ensure_pte().
The net result of the above bug would be that any invocation of
MemoryManager::ensure_pte() could erroneously return a pointer into
a kernel page table instead of the correct one!
This whole problem goes away when we remove the HashMap, as ensure_pte()
no longer does anything that allocates from the heap.
Not all drivers need the PhysicalPage output parameter while creating
a DMA buffer. This overload will avoid creating a temporary variable
for the caller
The cacheable parameter to allocate_kernel_region should be explicitly
set to No as this region is used to do physical memory transfers. Even
though most architectures ignore this even if it is set, it is better
to make this explicit.
So far we only had mmap(2) functionality on the /dev/mem device, but now
we can also do read(2) on it.
The test unit was updated to check we are doing it safely.
As it was pointed by Idan Horowitz, the rest of the method doesn't
assume we have any reserved ranges to allow mmap(2) to work on them, so
the VERIFY is not needed at all.
The function to protect ksyms after initialization, is only used during
boot of the system, so it can be UNMAP_AFTER_INIT as well.
This requires we switch the order of the init sequence, so we now call
`MM.protect_ksyms_after_init()` before `MM.unmap_text_after_init()`.
The Prekernel's memory is only accessed until MemoryManager has been
initialized. Keeping them around afterwards is both unnecessary and bad,
as it prevents the userland from using the 0x100000-0x155000 virtual
address range.
Co-authored-by: Idan Horowitz <idan.horowitz@gmail.com>
We can leave the .ksyms section mapped-but-read-only and then have the
symbols index simply point into it.
Note that we manually insert null-terminators into the symbols section
while parsing it.
This gets rid of ~950 KiB of kmalloc_eternal() at startup. :^)
It's not enough to just find the largest-address-not-above the argument,
we must also check that the found region actually contains the argument.
Regressed in a23edd42b8, thanks to Idan
for pointing this out.
We were already doing this for userspace memory regions (in the
Memory::AddressSpace class), so let's do it for kernel regions as well.
This gives a nice speed-up on test-js and probably basically everything
else as well. :^)
SIGSTKFLT is a signal that signifies a stack fault in a x87 coprocessor,
this signal is not POSIX and also unused by Linux and the BSDs, so let's
use SIGSEGV so programs that setup signal handlers for the common
signals could still handle them in serenity.
This is a handy helper that copies out the full contents of a physical
page into a caller-provided buffer. It uses quickmapping internally
(and takes the MM lock for the duration.)
We now use AK::Error and AK::ErrorOr<T> in both kernel and userspace!
This was a slightly tedious refactoring that took a long time, so it's
not unlikely that some bugs crept in.
Nevertheless, it does pass basic functionality testing, and it's just
real nice to finally see the same pattern in all contexts. :^)
This small change simplifies the function a bit but also fixes a problem
with it.
Let's take an example to see this:
Let's say we have a reserved range between 0xe0000 to 0xfffff (EBDA),
then we want to map from the memory device (/dev/mem) the entire
EBDA to a program. If a program tries to map more than 131072 bytes,
the current logic will work - the start address is 0xe0000, and ofcourse
it's below the limit, hence it passes the first two restrictions.
Then, the third if statement will fail if we try to mmap more than
the said allowed bytes.
However, let's take another scenario, where we try to mmap from
0xf0000 - but we try to mmap less than 131072 - but more than 65536.
In such case, we again pass the first two if statements, but the third
one is passed two, because it doesn't take into account the offseted
address from the start of the reserved range (0xe0000). In such case,
a user can easily mmap 65535 bytes above 0x100000. This might
seem negligible. However, it's still a severe bug that can theoretically
be exploited into a info leak or tampering with important kernel
structures.
When testing the RTL8168 driver, it seems we can't allocate super pages
anymore. Either we expand the super pages range, or find a solution to
dynamically expand the range (or let drivers utilize other ranges).
This expands the reach of error propagation greatly throughout the
kernel. Sadly, it also exposes the fact that we're allocating (and
doing other fallible things) in constructors all over the place.
This patch doesn't attempt to address that of course. That's work for
our future selves.
We have seen cases where the map fails, but we return the region
to the caller, causing them to page fault later on when they touch
the region.
The fix is to always observe the return code of map/remap.
The quickmap_page() and unquickmap_page() functions are used to map a
single physical page at a kernel virtual address for temporary access.
These use the per-CPU quickmap buffer in the page tables, and access to
this is guarded by the MM lock. To prevent bugs, quickmap_page() should
not *take* the MM lock, but rather verify that it is already held!
This exposed two situations where we were using quickmap without holding
the MM lock during page fault handling. This patch is forced to fix
these issues (which is great!) :^)
