linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] x86/speculation: add L1 Terminal Fault / Foreshadow demo

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:42:13 +1300
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Julian Stecklina <jsteckli@...zon.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Liran Alon <liran.alon@...cle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86/speculation: add L1 Terminal Fault / Foreshadow demo

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:15 AM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:36:18AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > +   /* Check the start address: needs to be page-aligned.. */
> > > +-  if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
> > > ++  if (start & ~PAGE_MASK) {
> > > ++
> > > ++          /*
> > > ++           * XXX Hack
> > > ++           *
> > > ++           * We re-use this error case to show case a cache load gadget:
> > > ++           * There is a mispredicted branch, which leads to prefetching
> > > ++           * the cache with attacker controlled data.
> > > ++           */
> > > ++          asm volatile (
> >
> > Obviously that can never be added to a standard kernel.
>
> No, that's why it is a patch, right?  People want to test things, it's
> nice to have a way to easily do this.

What about adding something like it to drivers/misc/lkdtm/ instead?

It's not a "production" module, but it regularly get built for selftest builds.

-- 
Kees Cook