linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v19 08/25] x86/mm: Introduce _PAGE

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Date:   Mon, 8 Feb 2021 15:03:47 -0800
From:   "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Vedvyas Shanbhogue <vedvyas.shanbhogue@...el.com>,
        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
        Weijiang Yang <weijiang.yang@...el.com>,
        Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 08/25] x86/mm: Introduce _PAGE_COW

On 2/5/2021 10:41 AM, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:
> On 2/4/2021 12:27 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 2/4/21 12:19 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>> (e) A page where the processor observed a Write=1 PTE, started a 
>>>> write, set
>>>>      Dirty=1, but then observed a Write=0 PTE.  That's possible 
>>>> today, but
>>>>      will not happen on processors that support shadow stack.
>>> What happens for "e" with/without CET? It sounds like direct writes to
>>> such pages will be (correctly) rejected by the MMU?
>>
>> A page fault would be generated regardless of CET support.
>>
>> If CET were not around, the fault would be reported as a present, write
>> fault.
>>
>> If this happened and CET were around (which shouldn't happen in
>> practice, it means we have a hardware issue) a page fault exception is
>> generated. 
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.  With or without CET, direct write to 
> Write=0, Dirty=1 PTE triggers page fault.
> 
>> Yu-cheng, I'm not sure there's enough debugging around to
>> tell us if this happens.  Would we even notice?
> 
> That potential hardware issue is, on a CET-capable system, a processor 
> writes to a Write=1, Dirty=0 page, and then observes the PTE is Write=0, 
> Dirty=1.  Let me think about it...
> 

One way to detect the potential issue is adding a check when a 
non-shadow stack page's PTE goes from RW=0 to RW=1, like the following...

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 29aa6f07e3c9..241b94a0fa77 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -405,6 +405,8 @@ static inline pte_t pte_mkyoung(pte_t pte)
  static inline pte_t pte_mkwrite(pte_t pte)
  {
  	if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK)) {
+		WARN_ONCE((pte_flags(pte) & (_PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY)) ==
+			  _PAGE_DIRTY, "Found transient shadow stack PTE\n");
  		if (pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_COW) {
  			pte = pte_clear_flags(pte, _PAGE_COW);
  			pte = pte_set_flags(pte, _PAGE_DIRTY);

I run all my routine stress tests with the changes, and do not see any 
warning triggered.  If this change is desirable, we can probably add 
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM around it and make it a separate patch.

--
Yu-cheng