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Message-ID: <20110120190531.GA9687@dumpdata.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:05:31 -0500 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com> Cc: "castet.matthieu@...e.fr" <castet.matthieu@...e.fr>, Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, "keir.fraser@...citrix.com" <keir.fraser@...citrix.com>, "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>, "hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>, "sliakh.lkml@...il.com" <sliakh.lkml@...il.com>, "jmorris@...ei.org" <jmorris@...ei.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "rusty@...tcorp.com.au" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, "torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "ak@....de" <ak@....de>, "davej@...hat.com" <davej@...hat.com>, "jiang@...ncsu.edu" <jiang@...ncsu.edu>, "arjan@...radead.org" <arjan@...radead.org>, "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>, "sfr@...b.auug.org.au" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, "mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com> Subject: Re: [tip:x86/security] x86: Add NX protection for kernel data On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:37:36PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 15:06 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:18:26PM +0100, castet.matthieu@...e.fr wrote: > > > Quoting Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:59:57PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote: > > > > > Le Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:14:32 -0500, > > > > > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I was just shown this[1] on Xen from an Ubuntu bug report[2]. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [ 1.230382] NX-protecting the kernel data: 3884k > > > > > > > > [ 1.231002] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at > > > > > > > > c1782ae0 ... > > > > > > > > [ 1.231145] Call Trace: > > > > > > > > [ 1.231152] [<c0138481>] ? __change_page_attr+0x2c1/0x370 > > > > > > > > [ 1.231161] [<c02163a1>] ? __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0xc1/0x180 > > > > > > > > [ 1.231169] [<c013857c>] ? > > > > > > > > __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x4c/0xb0 [ 1.231176] > > > > > > > > [<c0138838>] ? change_page_attr_set_clr+0x128/0x300 > > > > > > > > [ 1.231183] [<c010798e>] ? > > > > > > > > __raw_callee_save_xen_restore_fl+0x6/0x8 [ 1.231192] > > > > > > > > [<c0159ca1>] ? vprintk+0x171/0x3f0 [ 1.231198] [<c0138bdf>] ? > > > > > > > > set_memory_nx+0x5f/0x70 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you run it with Xen debugging enabled: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [ 7.753329] NX-protecting the kernel data: 2400k > > > > > > > (XEN) mm.c:2389:d0 Bad type (saw 3c000003 != exp 70000000) for mfn > > > > > this happen if (x & (PGT_type_mask|PGT_pae_xen_l2)) != type) > > > > > > > > > > but > > > > > #define PGT_type_mask (7U<<29) /* Bits 29-31. */ > > > > > #define _PGT_pae_xen_l2 26 > > > > > #define PGT_pae_xen_l2 (1U<<_PGT_pae_xen_l2) > > > > > > > > > > but (exp type = 0x70000000) & (PGT_type_mask|PGT_pae_xen_l2) = > > > > > 0x60000000 > > > > > > > > > > So the exp type look strange. > > > > > #define _PGT_pinned 28 > > > > > #define PGT_pinned (1U<<_PGT_pinned) > > > > > > > > > > > > 1355a5 (pfn 15a5) (XEN) mm.c:889:d0 Error getting mfn 1355a5 (pfn > > > > > > > 15a5) from L1 entry 80000001355a5063 for l1e_owner=0, pg_owner=0 > > > > > > > (XEN) mm.c:4958:d0 ptwr_emulate: could not get_page_from_l1e() > > > > > > > [ 7.759087] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at > > > > > > > c82a4d28 [ 7.759087] IP: [<c100608c>] > > > > > > > xen_set_pte_atomic+0x21/0x2f [ 7.759087] *pdpt = > > > > > > > 0000000001663001 *pde = 00000000082db067 *pte = 80000000082a4061 .. > > > > > > > and same stack trace. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does Xen have different size page table allocations or something > > > > > > > > weird? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The same page size. Not sure actually why it is being triggered. > > > > > > > Let me copy Keir on this. Keir, the region that is being marked as > > > > > > > _NX is .bss one and > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _past_ the __init_end it dies. Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > > Does this happen if you add ". = ALIGN(HPAGE_SIZE);" before bss section > > > > > in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S ? > > > > > > > > Like this? > > > Yes > > > > > > > > yeeeey...That made it boot. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What's the output of kernel_page_tables debugfs ? > > > > > > > > Shees.. I get > > > > > > > > [ 73.723105] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 15555000 > > > [...] > > > > with the patch and if I revert 5bd5a452662bc37c54fb6828db1a3faf87e6511c.. > > > > > > > > That looks to be another bug to hunt down. > > > > > > > No that the same bug : that the root cause. > > > > > > For some reason with xen, accessing some page tables (bss and after) make the > > > system crash. > > > > I think I know the failure in the first case - the swapper_pg_dir is marked as _RO > > and you are not suppose to make it _RW (unless you first do a bit of dance and switch > > over to another pagetable). The reason being that Xen has a symbiotic relationship > > with PV domains where pagetables are marked _RO so that any update to > > it will go through Xen so it can validate that we aren't doing anything stupid. > > > > But accessing the page table should be OK, not sure why it crashed - we > > aren't writting anything to it - just reading. > > > > Let me copy Ian on this - he might have better ideas. > > It's pretty hard to follow the quoted context above but it certainly > seems plausible that set_memory_nx could inadvertently end up trying to > make a page which Xen made RO into a RW again. > > For example the callchain appear to pass through static_protections() > which explicitly makes .data and .bss writeable, I think these regions > can potentially contain page table pages -- e.g. allocated from BRK > perhaps? They definitly do - it has the level1_ident_pgt, which is definitly used during bootup. Perhaps the fix is when marking NX, just do NX, don't try to set RW if they are RO. > > Ian. > -- 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/
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