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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 05:12:49 -0800
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] mm, x86/vdso: Special IO mapping improvements
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> Hi Oleg and Kees-
>
> I meant to cc you on this in the first place, but I failed. If you
> have a few minutes, want to take a peek at these and see if you can
> poke any holes in them? I'm reasonably confident that they're a
> considerable improvement over the old state of affairs, but they might
> still not be perfect.
>
> Let me know if you want me to email out a fresh copy. This series
> applies to tip:x86/asm.
Hi -tip people:
please don't apply this series. It has a race. I'll send v3.
--Andy
>
> --Andy
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
>> This applies on top of the earlier vdso pvclock series I sent out.
>> Once that lands in -tip, this will apply to -tip.
>>
>> This series cleans up the hack that is our vvar mapping. We currently
>> initialize the vvar mapping as a special mapping vma backed by nothing
>> whatsoever and then we abuse remap_pfn_range to populate it.
>>
>> This cheats the mm core, probably breaks under various evil madvise
>> workloads, and prevents handling faults in more interesting ways.
>>
>> To clean it up, this series:
>>
>> - Adds a special mapping .fault operation
>> - Adds a vm_insert_pfn_prot helper
>> - Uses the new .fault infrastructure in x86's vdso and vvar mappings
>> - Hardens the HPET mapping, mitigating an HW attack surface that bothers me
>>
>> akpm, can you ack patck 1?
>>
>> Changes from v1:
>> - Lots of changelog clarification requested by akpm
>> - Minor tweaks to style and comments in the first two patches
>>
>> Andy Lutomirski (6):
>> mm: Add a vm_special_mapping .fault method
>> mm: Add vm_insert_pfn_prot
>> x86/vdso: Track each mm's loaded vdso image as well as its base
>> x86,vdso: Use .fault for the vdso text mapping
>> x86,vdso: Use .fault instead of remap_pfn_range for the vvar mapping
>> x86/vdso: Disallow vvar access to vclock IO for never-used vclocks
>>
>> arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.h | 7 --
>> arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
>> arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_gtod.c | 9 ++-
>> arch/x86/include/asm/clocksource.h | 9 +--
>> arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h | 3 +-
>> arch/x86/include/asm/vdso.h | 3 -
>> arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h | 6 ++
>> include/linux/mm.h | 2 +
>> include/linux/mm_types.h | 22 +++++-
>> mm/memory.c | 25 ++++++-
>> mm/mmap.c | 13 ++--
>> 11 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.5.0
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andy Lutomirski
> AMA Capital Management, LLC
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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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