Ensure that the base address is 2M aligned, or else the page table
entries created would be corrupt as reserved bits on the PDE end up
set.
We have found a broken firmware where the loader would end up loading
Xen at a non 2M aligned region, and that caused a very difficult to
debug triple fault.
If the alignment is not as required by the page tables print an error
message and stop the boot.
The check could be performed earlier, but so far the alignment is
required by the page tables, and hence feels more natural that the
check lives near to the piece of code that requires it.
Note that when booted as an EFI application from the PE entry point
the alignment check is already performed by
efi_arch_load_addr_check(), and hence there's no need to add another
check at the point where page tables get built in
efi_arch_memory_setup().
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
---
xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S b/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S
index 0fb7dd3029f2..ff73c1d274c4 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ multiboot2_header:
.Lbad_ldr_nst: .asciz "ERR: EFI SystemTable is not provided by bootloader!"
.Lbad_ldr_nih: .asciz "ERR: EFI ImageHandle is not provided by bootloader!"
.Lbad_efi_msg: .asciz "ERR: EFI IA-32 platforms are not supported!"
+.Lbag_alg_msg: .asciz "ERR: Xen must be loaded at a 2Mb boundary!"
.section .init.data, "aw", @progbits
.align 4
@@ -146,6 +147,9 @@ bad_cpu:
not_multiboot:
add $sym_offs(.Lbad_ldr_msg),%esi # Error message
jmp .Lget_vtb
+not_aligned:
+ add $sym_offs(.Lbag_alg_msg),%esi # Error message
+ jmp .Lget_vtb
.Lmb2_no_st:
/*
* Here we are on EFI platform. vga_text_buffer was zapped earlier
@@ -670,6 +674,11 @@ trampoline_setup:
cmp %edi, %eax
jb 1b
+ /* Check that the image base is aligned. */
+ lea sym_esi(_start), %eax
+ and $(1 << L2_PAGETABLE_SHIFT) - 1, %eax
+ jnz not_aligned
+
/* Map Xen into the higher mappings using 2M superpages. */
lea _PAGE_PSE + PAGE_HYPERVISOR_RWX + sym_esi(_start), %eax
mov $sym_offs(_start), %ecx /* %eax = PTE to write ^ */
--
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