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Message-ID: <CAAhSdy04aEg35j3NTGOz5Gs_wPP3PBuR7sKbvosvQ1jFFGE5sQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 18:02:57 +0530
From: Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
To: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@...ive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, 
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, 
	Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>, Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, 
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] riscv: Userspace pointer masking and tagged
 address ABI

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 6:31 AM Samuel Holland
<samuel.holland@...ive.com> wrote:
>
> RISC-V defines three extensions for pointer masking[1]:
>  - Smmpm: configured in M-mode, affects M-mode
>  - Smnpm: configured in M-mode, affects the next lower mode (S or U-mode)
>  - Ssnpm: configured in S-mode, affects the next lower mode (VS, VU, or U-mode)
>
> This series adds support for configuring Smnpm or Ssnpm (depending on
> which privilege mode the kernel is running in) to allow pointer masking
> in userspace (VU or U-mode), extending the PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL API
> from arm64. Unlike arm64 TBI, userspace pointer masking is not enabled
> by default on RISC-V. Additionally, the tag width (referred to as PMLEN)
> is variable, so userspace needs to ask the kernel for a specific tag
> width, which is interpreted as a lower bound on the number of tag bits.
>
> This series also adds support for a tagged address ABI similar to arm64
> and x86. Since accesses from the kernel to user memory use the kernel's
> pointer masking configuration, not the user's, the kernel must untag
> user pointers in software before dereferencing them. And since the tag
> width is variable, as with LAM on x86, it must be kept the same across
> all threads in a process so untagged_addr_remote() can work.
>
> This series depends on my per-thread envcfg series[3].
>
> This series can be tested in QEMU by applying a patch set[2].
>
> KASAN support will be added in a separate patch series.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension/releases/download/pointer-masking-v1.0.0-rc2/pointer-masking-v1.0.0-rc2.pdf
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20240511101053.1875596-1-me@deliversmonkey.space/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240814081126.956287-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com/
>
> Changes in v4:
>  - Switch IS_ENABLED back to #ifdef to fix riscv32 build
>  - Combine __untagged_addr() and __untagged_addr_remote()
>
> Changes in v3:
>  - Note in the commit message that the ISA extension spec is frozen
>  - Rebase on riscv/for-next (ISA extension list conflicts)
>  - Remove RISCV_ISA_EXT_SxPM, which was not used anywhere
>  - Use shifts instead of large numbers in ENVCFG_PMM* macro definitions
>  - Rename CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_POINTER_MASKING to CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_SUPM,
>    since it only controls the userspace part of pointer masking
>  - Use IS_ENABLED instead of #ifdef when possible
>  - Use an enum for the supported PMLEN values
>  - Simplify the logic in set_tagged_addr_ctrl()
>  - Use IS_ENABLED instead of #ifdef when possible
>  - Implement mm_untag_mask()
>  - Remove pmlen from struct thread_info (now only in mm_context_t)
>
> Changes in v2:
>  - Drop patch 4 ("riscv: Define is_compat_thread()"), as an equivalent
>    patch was already applied
>  - Move patch 5 ("riscv: Split per-CPU and per-thread envcfg bits") to a
>    different series[3]
>  - Update pointer masking specification version reference
>  - Provide macros for the extension affecting the kernel and userspace
>  - Use the correct name for the hstatus.HUPMM field
>  - Rebase on riscv/linux.git for-next
>  - Add and use the envcfg_update_bits() helper function
>  - Inline flush_tagged_addr_state()
>  - Implement untagged_addr_remote()
>  - Restrict PMLEN changes once a process is multithreaded
>  - Rename "tags" directory to "pm" to avoid .gitignore rules
>  - Add .gitignore file to ignore the compiled selftest binary
>  - Write to a pipe to force dereferencing the user pointer
>  - Handle SIGSEGV in the child process to reduce dmesg noise
>  - Export Supm via hwprobe
>  - Export Smnpm and Ssnpm to KVM guests
>
> Samuel Holland (10):
>   dt-bindings: riscv: Add pointer masking ISA extensions
>   riscv: Add ISA extension parsing for pointer masking
>   riscv: Add CSR definitions for pointer masking
>   riscv: Add support for userspace pointer masking
>   riscv: Add support for the tagged address ABI
>   riscv: Allow ptrace control of the tagged address ABI
>   selftests: riscv: Add a pointer masking test
>   riscv: hwprobe: Export the Supm ISA extension
>   RISC-V: KVM: Allow Smnpm and Ssnpm extensions for guests
>   KVM: riscv: selftests: Add Smnpm and Ssnpm to get-reg-list test

Please CC kvm-riscv mailing list for KVM changes otherwise the
KVM RISC-V patchwork can't track patches.

>
>  Documentation/arch/riscv/hwprobe.rst          |   3 +
>  .../devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml |  18 +
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                            |  11 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h                  |  16 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h                |   5 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h                  |   7 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h          |  13 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h            |   8 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h            |  11 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h              |  43 ++-
>  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/hwprobe.h         |   1 +
>  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h             |   2 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c                |   3 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/process.c                   | 154 ++++++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c                    |  42 +++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c               |   3 +
>  arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_onereg.c                  |   3 +
>  include/uapi/linux/elf.h                      |   1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/prctl.h                    |   3 +
>  .../selftests/kvm/riscv/get-reg-list.c        |   8 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/riscv/Makefile        |   2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/riscv/pm/.gitignore   |   1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/riscv/pm/Makefile     |  10 +
>  .../selftests/riscv/pm/pointer_masking.c      | 330 ++++++++++++++++++
>  24 files changed, 692 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/pm/.gitignore
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/pm/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/pm/pointer_masking.c
>
> --
> 2.45.1
>

Regards,
Anup

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