From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sean.j.christopherson@intel.com,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86/pkeys: Explicitly treat PK #PF on kernel address as a bad area
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 10:29:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180807172920.8766-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> (raw)
Kernel addresses are always mapped with _PAGE_USER=0, i.e. PKRU
isn't enforced, and so we should never see X86_PF_PK set on a
kernel address fault. WARN once to capture the issue in case we
somehow don't die, e.g. the access originated in userspace.
Remove a similar check and its comment from spurious_fault_check().
The intent of the comment (and later code[1]) was simply to document
that spurious faults due to protection keys should be impossible, but
that's irrelevant and a bit of a red herring since we should never
get a protection keys fault on a kernel address regardless of the
kernel's TLB flushing behavior.
[1] http://lists-archives.com/linux-kernel/28407455-x86-pkeys-new-page-fault-error-code-bit-pf_pk.html
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
---
There's no indication that this condition has ever been encountered.
I came across the code in spurious_fault_check() and was confused as
to why we would unconditionally treat a protection keys fault as
spurious when the comment explicitly stated that such a case should
be impossible.
Dave Hansen suggested adding a WARN_ON_ONCE in spurious_fault_check(),
but it seemed more appropriate to freak out on any protection keys
fault on a kernel address since that would imply a hardware issue or
kernel bug. I omitted a Suggested-by since this isn't necessarily
what Dave had in mind.
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 2aafa6ab6103..f19a55972136 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -1040,12 +1040,6 @@ static int spurious_fault_check(unsigned long error_code, pte_t *pte)
if ((error_code & X86_PF_INSTR) && !pte_exec(*pte))
return 0;
- /*
- * Note: We do not do lazy flushing on protection key
- * changes, so no spurious fault will ever set X86_PF_PK.
- */
- if ((error_code & X86_PF_PK))
- return 1;
return 1;
}
@@ -1241,6 +1235,14 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
* protection error (error_code & 9) == 0.
*/
if (unlikely(fault_in_kernel_space(address))) {
+ /*
+ * We should never encounter a protection keys fault on a
+ * kernel address as kernel address are always mapped with
+ * _PAGE_USER=0, i.e. PKRU isn't enforced.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & X86_PF_PK))
+ goto bad_kernel_address;
+
if (!(error_code & (X86_PF_RSVD | X86_PF_USER | X86_PF_PROT))) {
if (vmalloc_fault(address) >= 0)
return;
@@ -1253,6 +1255,8 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
/* kprobes don't want to hook the spurious faults: */
if (kprobes_fault(regs))
return;
+
+bad_kernel_address:
/*
* Don't take the mm semaphore here. If we fixup a prefetch
* fault we could otherwise deadlock:
--
2.18.0
next reply other threads:[~2018-08-07 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-07 17:29 Sean Christopherson [this message]
2018-08-07 18:28 ` Dave Hansen
2018-08-30 10:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-08-30 23:33 ` Dave Hansen
2018-08-31 2:38 ` Jann Horn
2018-08-31 3:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-04 19:50 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-04 19:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-04 21:21 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-04 21:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-05 21:35 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-05 21:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
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