linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: Suppress WARN on inability to sanitize EPC if ksgxd is stopped

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Message-ID: <YMmUHRGwXSIYJTDf@nuc>
Date:   Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:03:09 +0800
From:   Du Cheng <ducheng2@...il.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: Suppress WARN on inability to sanitize EPC if
 ksgxd is stopped

Le Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 05:44:58PM -0700, Sean Christopherson a écrit :
> Don't WARN on having unsanitized EPC pages if ksgxd is stopped early,
> e.g. if sgx_init() realizes there will be no downstream consumers of EPC.
> If ksgxd is stopped early, EPC pages may be left on the dirty list, but
> that's ok because ksgxd is only stopped if SGX initialization failed or
> if the kernel is going down.  In either case, the EPC won't be used.
> 
> This bug was exposed by the addition of KVM support, but has existed and
> was hittable since the original sanitization code was added.  Prior to
> adding KVM support, if Launch Control was not fully enabled, e.g. when
> running on older hardware, sgx_init() bailed immediately before spawning
> ksgxd because X86_FEATURE_SGX was cleared if X86_FEATURE_SGX_LC was
> unsupported.
> 
> With KVM support, sgx_drv_init() handles the X86_FEATURE_SGX_LC check
> manually, so now there's any easy-to-hit case where sgx_init() will spawn
> ksgxd and _then_ fail to initialize, which results in sgx_init() stopping
> ksgxd before it finishes sanitizing the EPC.
> 
> Prior to KVM support, the bug was much harder to hit because it basically
> required char device registration to fail.
> 
> Reported-by: Du Cheng <ducheng2@...il.com>
> Fixes: e7e0545299d8 ("x86/sgx: Initialize metadata for Enclave Page Cache (EPC) sections")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
> ---
> 
> Lightly tested due to lack of hardware.  I hacked the flow to verify that
> stopping early will leave work pending, and that rechecking should_stop()
> suppress the resulting WARN.
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
> index ad904747419e..fbad2b9625a5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
> @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static int ksgxd(void *p)
>  	__sgx_sanitize_pages(&sgx_dirty_page_list);
>  
>  	/* sanity check: */
> -	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&sgx_dirty_page_list));
> +	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&sgx_dirty_page_list) && !kthread_should_stop());
>  
>  	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
>  		if (try_to_freeze())
> -- 
> 2.32.0.272.g935e593368-goog
> 

I applied this patch on 5.13-rc6, and it no longer causes to trigger WARN_ON()
on my NUC:

```

[    0.669411] PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
[    0.669412] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x0000000017cb9000-0x000000001bcb9000] (64MB)
[    0.672788] platform rtc_cmos: registered platform RTC device (no PNP device found)
[    0.672805] sgx: EPC section 0x30200000-0x35f7ffff
[    0.674239] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[    0.674254] Key type blacklist registered

```

Regards,
Du Cheng