linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] uaccess: Check no rescheduling function is called in unsafe region

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Message-ID: <20190213144000.GX32494@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:40:00 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, catalin.marinas@....com, james.morse@....com,
        hpa@...or.com, valentin.schneider@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] uaccess: Check no rescheduling function is called
 in unsafe region

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:24:34PM +0000, Julien Thierry wrote:
> On 13/02/2019 14:17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:00:26PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> >>> This; how is getting preempted fundamentally different from scheduling
> >>> ourselves?
> >>
> >> The difference is because getting preempted in the sequence above is
> >> triggered off the back of an interrupt. On arm64, and I think also on x86,
> >> the user access state (SMAP or PAN) is saved and restored across exceptions
> >> but not across context switch. Consequently, taking an irq in a
> >> user_access_{begin,end} section and then scheduling is fine, but calling
> >> schedule directly within such a section is not.
> > 
> > So how's this then:
> > 
> > 	if (user_access_begin()) {
> > 
> > 		preempt_disable();
> > 
> > 		<IRQ>
> > 			set_need_resched();
> > 		</IRQ no preempt>
> > 
> > 		preempt_enable()
> > 		  __schedule();
> > 
> > 		user_access_end();
> > 	}
> > 
> > That _should_ work just fine but explodes with the proposed nonsense.
> 
> AFAICT, This does not work properly because when you schedule out this
> task, you won't be saving the EFLAGS.AF/PSTATE.PAN bit on the stack, and

EFLAGS.AC, but yes.

> next time you schedule the task back in, it might no longer have the
> correct flag value (so an unsafe_get/put_user() will fail even though
> you haven't reached user_access_end()).

/me looks at __switch_to_asm() and there is indeed a distinct lack of
pushing and popping EFLAGS :/

> One solution is to deal with this in task switching code, but so far
> I've been told that calling schedule() in such a context is not expected
> to be supported.

Well, per the above it breaks the preemption model. And I hates that.

And the added WARN doesn't even begin to cover it, since you'd have to
actually hit the preempt_enable() reschedule for it trigger.

So far, all 6 in-tree users are indeed free of dodgy code, but *groan*.