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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:45:33 -0400
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To: Ahmed Abd El Mawgood <ahmedsoliman0x666@...il.com>,
xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
x86@...nel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
rkrcmar@...hat.com, nathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
hpa@...or.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
Boris Lukashev <blukashev@...pervictus.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...anix.com>, nigel.edwards@....com,
Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Subject: Re: Memory Read Only Enforcement: VMM assisted kernel rootkit
mitigation for KVM
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:37:59PM +0200, Ahmed Abd El Mawgood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first set of patches that works as I would expect, and the
> third revision I sent to mailing lists.
>
> Following up with my previous discussions about kernel rootkit mitigation
> via placing R/O protection on critical data structure, static data,
> privileged registers with static content. These patches present the
> first part where it is only possible to place these protections on
> memory pages. Feature-wise, this set of patches is incomplete in the sense of:
> - They still don't protect privileged registers
> - They don't protect guest TLB from malicious gva -> gpa page mappings.
> But they provide sketches for a basic working design. Note that I am totally
> noob and it took lots of time and effort to get to this point. So sorry in
> advance if I overlooked something.
This reminds me of Xen PV page model. That is the hypervisor is the one
auditing the page tables and the guest's pages are read-only.
Ditto for IDT, GDT, etc. Gosh, did you by chance look at how
Xen PV mechanism is done? It may provide the protection you are looking for?
CC-ing xen-devel.
>
> [PATCH 1/3] [RFC V3] KVM: X86: Memory ROE documentation
> [PATCH 2/3] [RFC V3] KVM: X86: Adding arbitrary data pointer in kvm memslot itterator functions
> [PATCH 3/3] [RFC V3] KVM: X86: Adding skeleton for Memory ROE
>
> Summery:
>
> Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt | 14 ++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 11 ++-
> arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig | 7 ++
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/kvm_host.h | 3 +
> include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h | 1 +
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 29 ++++++-
> 8 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>
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