linux-kernel - Re: TLB flushes on fixmap changes

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Date:   Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:13:29 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@....ibm.com>,
        Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Adin Scannell <ascannell@...gle.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: TLB flushes on fixmap changes

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 12:03:05PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 11:09:58 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> > FWIW, before text_poke_bp(), text_poke() would only be used from
> > stop_machine, so all the other CPUs would be stuck busy-waiting with
> > IRQs disabled. These days, yeah, that's lots more dodgy, but yes
> > text_mutex should be serializing all that.
> 
> I'm still not sure that speculative page-table walk can be done
> over the mutex. Also, if the fixmap area is for aliasing
> pages (which always mapped to memory), what kind of
> security issue can happen?

So suppose CPU-A is doing the text_poke (let's say through text_poke_bp,
such that other CPUs get to continue with whatever they're doing).

While at that point, CPU-B gets an interrupt, and the CPU's
branch-trace-buffer for the IRET points to / near our fixmap. Then the
CPU could do a speculative TLB fill based on the BTB value, either
directly or indirectly (through speculative driven fault-ahead) of
whatever is in te fixmap at the time.

Then CPU-A completes the text_poke and only does a local TLB invalidate
on CPU-A, leaving CPU-B with an active translation.

*FAIL*