linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v38 10/24] mm: Add vm

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Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:39:24 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jethro Beekman <jethro@...tanix.com>,
        Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@...cle.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        asapek@...gle.com, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "Xing, Cedric" <cedric.xing@...el.com>, chenalexchen@...gle.com,
        Conrad Parker <conradparker@...gle.com>, cyhanish@...gle.com,
        "Huang, Haitao" <haitao.huang@...el.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@...el.com>,
        "Svahn, Kai" <kai.svahn@...el.com>, Keith Moyer <kmoy@...gle.com>,
        Christian Ludloff <ludloff@...gle.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>,
        Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@...hat.com>,
        Patrick Uiterwijk <puiterwijk@...hat.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, yaozhangx@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v38 10/24] mm: Add vm_ops->mprotect()

On 9/24/20 12:28 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 02:11:37PM -0500, Haitao Huang wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 08:50:56 -0500, Jarkko Sakkinen
>> <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> I'll categorically deny noexec in the next patch set version.
>>>
>>> /Jarkko
>> There are use cases supported currently in which enclave binary is received
>> via IPC/RPC and held in buffers before EADD. Denying noexec altogether would
>> break those, right?
> No.  noexec only applies to file-backed VMAs, what you're describing is loading
> an enclave from an anon VMA, which will still have VM_MAYEXEC.

Maybe I'm just stupid, but I still don't get the scenario that's being
thwarted or why it is valuable.  The SDM is worthless on what EMODPE
does or what its restrictions are.

In pseudo-C, it's something logically like this for the "nice" case:

	ptr = mmap("/some/executable", PROT_EXEC);
	ioctl(sgx_fd, ADD_ENCLAVE_PAGE, SGX_PROT_EXEC, ptr, size);
	mmap(sgx_fd);
	EENTER;

And we're trying to thwart:

	ptr = mmap("/mnt/noexec/file", PROT_READ);
	ioctl(sgx_fd, ADD_ENCLAVE_PAGE, SGX_PROT_EXEC, ptr, size);
	mmap(sgx_fd);
	EENTER;

because that loads data into the enclave which is executable but which
was not executable normally.  But, we're allowing this from anonymous
memory, so this would seem to work:

	ptr = mmap("/mnt/noexec/file", PROT_READ);
	buffer = malloc(PAGE_SIZE);
	memcpy(buffer, ptr, PAGE_SIZE);
	// need mprotect(buf, PROT_EXEC)???
	ioctl(sgx_fd, ADD_ENCLAVE_PAGE, SGX_PROT_EXEC, buffer, size);
	mmap(sgx_fd);
	EENTER;

and give the same result.  What am I missing?