linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: fix a NULL pointer

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:36:53 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     kai.huang@...el.com, reinette.chatre@...el.com,
        kristen@...ux.intel.com, seanjc@...gle.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/sgx: fix a NULL pointer

On 7/18/23 14:22, Haitao Huang wrote:
> I agree this is the race. But for this to happen, that is at #1 you have
> only one non-SECS page left so #3 can happen. That means it is already
> high pressure 

I think our definitions of memory pressure differ.

Pressure is raised by allocations and dropped by reclaim.  This
raise->drop cycle is (or should be) time-limited and can't take forever.
 The reclaim either works in a short period of time or something dies.
If allocations are transient, pressure is transient.

Let's say a pressure blip (a one-time event) comes along and pages out
that second-to-last page.  That's pretty low pressure.  Years pass.  The
enclave never gets run.  Nothing pages the second-to-last page back in.
A second pressure blip comes along.  The SECS page gets paged out.

That's two pressure blips in, say 10 years.  Is that "high pressure"?

> because reclaimer has swapped all other non-SECS.
> In my example of two enclaves of 5 non-EPC pages. #3 won't happen
> because you don't reach #1 with only one non-SECS left.