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Message-ID: <57622865.2070701@nextfour.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2016 07:17:41 +0300
From:	Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@...tfour.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<x86@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" 
	<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] x86/mm/64: Enable vmapped stacks

Hi,

On 06/16/2016 03:28 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This allows x86_64 kernels to enable vmapped stacks.  There are a
> couple of interesting bits.
> 
> First, x86 lazily faults in top-level paging entries for the vmalloc
> area.  This won't work if we get a page fault while trying to access
> the stack: the CPU will promote it to a double-fault and we'll die.
> To avoid this problem, probe the new stack when switching stacks and
> forcibly populate the pgd entry for the stack when switching mms.
> 
> Second, once we have guard pages around the stack, we'll want to
> detect and handle stack overflow.
> 
> I didn't enable it on x86_32.  We'd need to rework the double-fault
> code a bit and I'm concerned about running out of vmalloc virtual
> addresses under some workloads.
> 
> This patch, by itself, will behave somewhat erratically when the
> stack overflows while RSP is still more than a few tens of bytes
> above the bottom of the stack.  Specifically, we'll get #PF and make
> it to no_context and an oops without triggering a double-fault, and
> no_context doesn't know about stack overflows.  The next patch will
> improve that case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                 |  1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/traps.c          | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/mm/tlb.c                | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 0a7b885964ba..b624b24d1dc1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ config X86
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>  	select HAVE_EBPF_JIT			if X86_64
> +	select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK		if X86_64
>  	select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
>  	select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
> index 8f321a1b03a1..14e4b20f0aaf 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
> @@ -8,6 +8,28 @@ struct tss_struct;
>  void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p,
>  		      struct tss_struct *tss);
>  
> +/* This runs runs on the previous thread's stack. */
> +static inline void prepare_switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
> +				     struct task_struct *next)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> +	/*
> +	 * If we switch to a stack that has a top-level paging entry
> +	 * that is not present in the current mm, the resulting #PF will
> +	 * will be promoted to a double-fault and we'll panic.  Probe
> +	 * the new stack now so that vmalloc_fault can fix up the page
> +	 * tables if needed.  This can only happen if we use a stack
> +	 * in vmap space.
> +	 *
> +	 * We assume that the stack is aligned so that it never spans
> +	 * more than one top-level paging entry.
> +	 *
> +	 * To minimize cache pollution, just follow the stack pointer.
> +	 */
> +	READ_ONCE(*(unsigned char *)next->thread.sp);
> +#endif
> +}
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
> @@ -39,6 +61,8 @@ do {									\
>  	 */								\
>  	unsigned long ebx, ecx, edx, esi, edi;				\
>  									\
> +	prepare_switch_to(prev, next);					\
> +									\
>  	asm volatile("pushl %%ebp\n\t"		/* save    EBP   */	\
>  		     "movl %%esp,%[prev_sp]\n\t"	/* save    ESP   */ \
>  		     "movl %[next_sp],%%esp\n\t"	/* restore ESP   */ \
> @@ -103,7 +127,9 @@ do {									\
>   * clean in kernel mode, with the possible exception of IOPL.  Kernel IOPL
>   * has no effect.
>   */
> -#define switch_to(prev, next, last) \
> +#define switch_to(prev, next, last)					  \
> +	prepare_switch_to(prev, next);					  \
> +									  \
>  	asm volatile(SAVE_CONTEXT					  \
>  	     "movq %%rsp,%P[threadrsp](%[prev])\n\t" /* save RSP */	  \
>  	     "movq %P[threadrsp](%[next]),%%rsp\n\t" /* restore RSP */	  \
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> index 00f03d82e69a..9cb7ea781176 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -292,12 +292,30 @@ DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_NP,     SIGBUS,  "segment not present",	segment_not_present)
>  DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_SS,     SIGBUS,  "stack segment",		stack_segment)
>  DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_AC,     SIGBUS,  "alignment check",		alignment_check)
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> +static void __noreturn handle_stack_overflow(const char *message,
> +					     struct pt_regs *regs,
> +					     unsigned long fault_address)
> +{
> +	printk(KERN_EMERG "BUG: stack guard page was hit at %p (stack is %p..%p)\n",
> +		 (void *)fault_address, current->stack,
> +		 (char *)current->stack + THREAD_SIZE - 1);
> +	die(message, regs, 0);
> +
> +	/* Be absolutely certain we don't return. */
> +	panic(message);
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>  /* Runs on IST stack */
>  dotraplinkage void do_double_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
>  {
>  	static const char str[] = "double fault";
>  	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> +	unsigned long cr2;
> +#endif
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64
>  	extern unsigned char native_irq_return_iret[];
> @@ -332,6 +350,20 @@ dotraplinkage void do_double_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
>  	tsk->thread.error_code = error_code;
>  	tsk->thread.trap_nr = X86_TRAP_DF;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
> +	/*
> +	 * If we overflow the stack into a guard page, the CPU will fail
> +	 * to deliver #PF and will send #DF instead.  CR2 will contain
> +	 * the linear address of the second fault, which will be in the
> +	 * guard page below the bottom of the stack.
> +	 */
> +	cr2 = read_cr2();
> +	if ((unsigned long)tsk->stack - 1 - cr2 < PAGE_SIZE)
> +		handle_stack_overflow(
> +			"kernel stack overflow (double-fault)",
> +			regs, cr2);
> +#endif
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT
>  	df_debug(regs, error_code);
>  #endif
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> index 5643fd0b1a7d..fbf036ae72ac 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> @@ -77,10 +77,25 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
>  	unsigned cpu = smp_processor_id();
>  
>  	if (likely(prev != next)) {
> +		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)) {
> +			/*
> +			 * If our current stack is in vmalloc space and isn't
> +			 * mapped in the new pgd, we'll double-fault.  Forcibly
> +			 * map it.
> +			 */
> +			unsigned int stack_pgd_index =
> +				pgd_index(current_stack_pointer());


stack pointer is still the previous task's, current_stack_pointer() returns that, not
next task's which was intention I guess. Things may happen to work if on same pgd, but at least the
boot cpu init_task_struct is special.


> +			pgd_t *pgd = next->pgd + stack_pgd_index;
> +
> +			if (unlikely(pgd_none(*pgd)))
> +				set_pgd(pgd, init_mm.pgd[stack_pgd_index]);
> +		}
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  		this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, TLBSTATE_OK);
>  		this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm, next);
>  #endif
> +
>  		cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
>  
>  		/*
> 

--Mika


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