linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] x86/tdx: Add validation of userspace MMIO instructions

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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 10:18:20 +0300
From: "kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] x86/tdx: Add validation of userspace MMIO
 instructions

On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 10:40:55PM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-08-05 at 15:29 +0200, Alexey Gladkov (Intel) wrote:
> > +       vaddr = (unsigned long)insn_get_addr_ref(&insn, regs);
> > +
> > +       if (user_mode(regs)) {
> > +               if (mmap_read_lock_killable(current->mm))
> > +                       return -EINTR;
> > +
> > +               ret = valid_vaddr(ve, mmio, size, vaddr);
> > +               if (ret)
> > +                       goto unlock;
> > +       }
> > +
> 
> In the case of user MMIO, if the user instruction + MAX_INSN_SIZE straddles a
> page, then the "fetch" in the kernel could trigger a #VE. In this case the  
> kernel would handle this second #VE as a !user_mode() MMIO I guess.
> 
> Would something prevent the same munmap() checks needing to happen for that
> second kernel #VE? If not, I wonder if the munmap() protection logic should also
> trigger for any userspace range ve->gpa as well.

That's an interesting scenario, but I think we are fine.

The fetch is copy_from_user() which is "REP; MOVSB" on all TDX platforms.
Kernel rejects MOVS instruction emulation for !user_mode() with -EFAULT.

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  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov