linux-kernel - Re: mmiotrace bug: recursive probe hit

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:39:05 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
CC:	Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	vegard.nossum@...il.com
Subject: Re: mmiotrace bug: recursive probe hit

Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com> wrote:
>   
>> It should not be too difficult to modify x86_emulate.c to do everything
>> through a function vector.  However there is a simpler (for you) solution:
>> run the driver-to-be-reverse-engineered in a kvm guest, and modify kvm
>> userspace to log accesses to mmio regions.  This requires the not-yet-merged
>> pci passthrough support.  You can reverse engineer Windows drivers with this
>> as well.
>>
>>  This won't work for kmemcheck smp though.
>>     
>
> For kmemcheck, I'd prefer the per-CPU page tables suggested by Ingo.
> I'm having hard time understanding why that's a "ugly hack" compared
> to using kvm for this...
>   

It's not an ugly hack, but will be very very difficult.  With mmu 
notifiers it's probably doable though:

- the linux page tables are never loaded into cr3, but rather kept as a 
reference
- page faults are by instantiating ptes into shadow page tables (which 
track the linux page tables)
- mmu notifiers are used to drop shadow ptes when the linux ptes change

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/