linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v30 12/20] x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer

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Date:   Thu, 21 May 2020 23:58:02 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        dave.hansen@...el.com, nhorman@...hat.com, npmccallum@...hat.com,
        haitao.huang@...el.com, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, kai.svahn@...el.com, bp@...en8.de,
        josh@...htriplett.org, luto@...nel.org, kai.huang@...el.com,
        rientjes@...gle.com, cedric.xing@...el.com, puiterwijk@...hat.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Jethro Beekman <jethro@...tanix.com>,
        Jordan Hand <jorhand@...ux.microsoft.com>,
        Chunyang Hui <sanqian.hcy@...fin.com>,
        Seth Moore <sethmo@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v30 12/20] x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 03:44:02AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> +/**
> + * sgx_reclaim_pages() - Reclaim EPC pages from the consumers
> + *
> + * Take a fixed number of pages from the head of the active page pool and
> + * reclaim them to the enclave's private shmem files. Skip the pages, which
> + * have been accessed since the last scan. Move those pages to the tail of
> + * active page pool so that the pages get scanned in LRU like fashion.
> + */
> +void sgx_reclaim_pages(void)
> +{
> +	struct sgx_epc_page *chunk[SGX_NR_TO_SCAN];
> +	struct sgx_backing backing[SGX_NR_TO_SCAN];
> +	struct sgx_epc_section *section;
> +	struct sgx_encl_page *encl_page;
> +	struct sgx_epc_page *epc_page;
> +	int cnt = 0;
> +	int ret;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	spin_lock(&sgx_active_page_list_lock);
> +	for (i = 0; i < SGX_NR_TO_SCAN; i++) {
> +		if (list_empty(&sgx_active_page_list))
> +			break;
> +
> +		epc_page = list_first_entry(&sgx_active_page_list,
> +					    struct sgx_epc_page, list);
> +		list_del_init(&epc_page->list);
> +		encl_page = epc_page->owner;
> +
> +		if (kref_get_unless_zero(&encl_page->encl->refcount) != 0)
> +			chunk[cnt++] = epc_page;
> +		else
> +			/* The owner is freeing the page. No need to add the
> +			 * page back to the list of reclaimable pages.
> +			 */
> +			epc_page->desc &= ~SGX_EPC_PAGE_RECLAIMABLE;
> +	}
> +	spin_unlock(&sgx_active_page_list_lock);
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
> +		epc_page = chunk[i];
> +		encl_page = epc_page->owner;
> +
> +		if (!sgx_reclaimer_age(epc_page))
> +			goto skip;
> +
> +		ret = sgx_encl_get_backing(encl_page->encl,
> +					   SGX_ENCL_PAGE_INDEX(encl_page),
> +					   &backing[i]);
> +		if (ret)
> +			goto skip;
> +
> +		mutex_lock(&encl_page->encl->lock);
> +		encl_page->desc |= SGX_ENCL_PAGE_RECLAIMED;
> +		mutex_unlock(&encl_page->encl->lock);
> +		continue;
> +
> +skip:
> +		kref_put(&encl_page->encl->refcount, sgx_encl_release);
> +
> +		spin_lock(&sgx_active_page_list_lock);
> +		list_add_tail(&epc_page->list, &sgx_active_page_list);
> +		spin_unlock(&sgx_active_page_list_lock);

Ugh, this is wrong.  If the above kref_put() drops the last reference and
releases the enclave, adding the page to the active page list will result
in a use-after-free as the enclave will have been freed.  It also leaks the
EPC page because sgx_encl_destroy() skips pages that are in the process of
being reclaimed (as detected by list_empty()).

The "original" code did the put() after list_add_tail(), but was moved in
v15 to fix a bug where the put() could drop a reference to the wrong enclave
if the page was freed and reallocated by a different CPU between
list_add_tail() and put().  But, that particular bug only occurred because
the code at the time was:

	sgx_encl_page_put(epc_page);

I.e. the backpointer in epc_page was consumed after dropping the spin lock.
So long as epc_page->owner (well, epc_page in general) isn't dereferenced,
I'm 99% certain this can be fixed simply by doing kref_put() after moving
the page back to the active page list.

> +
> +		chunk[i] = NULL;
> +	}
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
> +		epc_page = chunk[i];
> +		if (epc_page)
> +			sgx_reclaimer_block(epc_page);
> +	}
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
> +		epc_page = chunk[i];
> +		if (!epc_page)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		encl_page = epc_page->owner;
> +		sgx_reclaimer_write(epc_page, &backing[i]);
> +		sgx_encl_put_backing(&backing[i], true);
> +
> +		kref_put(&encl_page->encl->refcount, sgx_encl_release);
> +		epc_page->desc &= ~SGX_EPC_PAGE_RECLAIMABLE;
> +
> +		section = sgx_epc_section(epc_page);
> +		spin_lock(&section->lock);
> +		list_add_tail(&epc_page->list, &section->page_list);
> +		section->free_cnt++;
> +		spin_unlock(&section->lock);
> +	}
> +}