Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752454AbbG3Vbm (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:31:42 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:60694 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752138AbbG3Vbl (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:31:41 -0400 From: Andy Lutomirski To: X86 ML , Borislav Petkov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , "security@kernel.org" , Sasha Levin , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Boris Ostrovsky , Andrew Cooper , Jan Beulich , xen-devel , Andy Lutomirski , stable@vger.kernel.org, David Vrabel Subject: [PATCH v6 1/4] x86/xen: Probe target addresses in set_aliased_prot before the hypercall Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:31:31 -0700 Message-Id: <0b0e55b995cda11e7829f140b833ef932fcabe3a.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.4.3 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3571 Lines: 98 The update_va_mapping hypercall can fail if the VA isn't present in the guest's page tables. Under certain loads, this can result in an OOPS when the target address is in unpopulated vmap space. While we're at it, add comments to help explain what's going on. This isn't a great long-term fix. This code should probably be changed to use something like set_memory_ro. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Cooper Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: David Vrabel Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski --- arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c index 0b95c9b8283f..09f7fd6aa5c8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c @@ -483,6 +483,7 @@ static void set_aliased_prot(void *v, pgprot_t prot) pte_t pte; unsigned long pfn; struct page *page; + unsigned char dummy; ptep = lookup_address((unsigned long)v, &level); BUG_ON(ptep == NULL); @@ -492,6 +493,32 @@ static void set_aliased_prot(void *v, pgprot_t prot) pte = pfn_pte(pfn, prot); + /* + * Careful: update_va_mapping will fail if the virtual address + * we're poking isn't populated in the page tables. We don't + * need to worry about the direct map (that's always in the page + * tables), but we need to be careful about vmap space. In + * particular, the top level page table can lazily propagate + * entries between processes, so if we've switched mms since we + * vmapped the target in the first place, we might not have the + * top-level page table entry populated. + * + * We disable preemption because we want the same mm active when + * we probe the target and when we issue the hypercall. We'll + * have the same nominal mm, but if we're a kernel thread, lazy + * mm dropping could change our pgd. + * + * Out of an abundance of caution, this uses __get_user to fault + * in the target address just in case there's some obscure case + * in which the target address isn't readable. + */ + + preempt_disable(); + + pagefault_disable(); /* Avoid warnings due to being atomic. */ + __get_user(dummy, (unsigned char __user __force *)v); + pagefault_enable(); + if (HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping((unsigned long)v, pte, 0)) BUG(); @@ -503,6 +530,8 @@ static void set_aliased_prot(void *v, pgprot_t prot) BUG(); } else kmap_flush_unused(); + + preempt_enable(); } static void xen_alloc_ldt(struct desc_struct *ldt, unsigned entries) @@ -510,6 +539,17 @@ static void xen_alloc_ldt(struct desc_struct *ldt, unsigned entries) const unsigned entries_per_page = PAGE_SIZE / LDT_ENTRY_SIZE; int i; + /* + * We need to mark the all aliases of the LDT pages RO. We + * don't need to call vm_flush_aliases(), though, since that's + * only responsible for flushing aliases out the TLBs, not the + * page tables, and Xen will flush the TLB for us if needed. + * + * To avoid confusing future readers: none of this is necessary + * to load the LDT. The hypervisor only checks this when the + * LDT is faulted in due to subsequent descriptor access. + */ + for(i = 0; i < entries; i += entries_per_page) set_aliased_prot(ldt + i, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); } -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/