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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:13:03 -0700
From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ker.com>
To: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>
Cc: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	Marco Benatto <marco.antonio.780@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame
 Ownership (XPFO)

Hi Yisheng,

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 04:05:22PM +0800, Yisheng Xie wrote:
> > IMO, before a page is allocated, it is in buddy system, which means it is free
> > and no other 'map' on the page except direct map. Then if the page is allocated
> > to user, XPFO should unmap the direct map. otherwise the ret2dir may works at
> > this window before it is freed. Or maybe I'm still missing anything.
> 
> I agree that it seems broken. I'm just not sure why the test doesn't
> fail. It's certainly worth understanding.

Ok, so I think what's going on is that the page *is* mapped and unmapped by the
kernel as Juerg described, but only in certain cases. See prep_new_page(),
which has the following:

	if (!free_pages_prezeroed() && (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO))
		for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
			clear_highpage(page + i);

clear_highpage() maps and unmaps the pages, so that's why xpfo works with this
set.

I tried with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO=y and page_poison=y, and the
XPFO_READ_USER test does not fail, i.e. the read succeeds. So, I think we need
to include this zeroing condition in xpfo_alloc_pages(), something like the
patch below. Unfortunately, this fails to boot for me, probably for an
unrelated reason that I'll look into.

Thanks a lot!

Tycho


>From bfc21a6438cf8c56741af94cac939f1b0f63752c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ker.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:06:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] draft of unmapping patch

Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ker.com>
---
 include/linux/xpfo.h |  5 +++--
 mm/compaction.c      |  2 +-
 mm/internal.h        |  2 +-
 mm/page_alloc.c      | 10 ++++++----
 mm/xpfo.c            | 10 ++++++++--
 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/xpfo.h b/include/linux/xpfo.h
index b24be9ac4a2d..c991bf7f051d 100644
--- a/include/linux/xpfo.h
+++ b/include/linux/xpfo.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ void xpfo_flush_kernel_tlb(struct page *page, int order);
 
 void xpfo_kmap(void *kaddr, struct page *page);
 void xpfo_kunmap(void *kaddr, struct page *page);
-void xpfo_alloc_pages(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp);
+void xpfo_alloc_pages(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp, bool will_map);
 void xpfo_free_pages(struct page *page, int order);
 
 bool xpfo_page_is_unmapped(struct page *page);
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ void xpfo_temp_unmap(const void *addr, size_t size, void **mapping,
 
 static inline void xpfo_kmap(void *kaddr, struct page *page) { }
 static inline void xpfo_kunmap(void *kaddr, struct page *page) { }
-static inline void xpfo_alloc_pages(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp) { }
+static inline void xpfo_alloc_pages(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp,
+				    bool will_map) { }
 static inline void xpfo_free_pages(struct page *page, int order) { }
 
 static inline bool xpfo_page_is_unmapped(struct page *page) { return false; }
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index fb548e4c7bd4..9a222258e65c 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static void map_pages(struct list_head *list)
 		order = page_private(page);
 		nr_pages = 1 << order;
 
-		post_alloc_hook(page, order, __GFP_MOVABLE);
+		post_alloc_hook(page, order, __GFP_MOVABLE, false);
 		if (order)
 			split_page(page, order);
 
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 4ef49fc55e58..1a0331ec2b2d 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ extern void __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
 					unsigned int order);
 extern void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
 extern void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
-					gfp_t gfp_flags);
+					gfp_t gfp_flags, bool will_map);
 extern int user_min_free_kbytes;
 
 #if defined CONFIG_COMPACTION || defined CONFIG_CMA
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 09fdf1bad21f..f73809847c58 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ static bool check_new_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 }
 
 inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
-				gfp_t gfp_flags)
+				gfp_t gfp_flags, bool will_map)
 {
 	set_page_private(page, 0);
 	set_page_refcounted(page);
@@ -1759,18 +1759,20 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 	kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 1);
 	kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 1);
 	kasan_alloc_pages(page, order);
-	xpfo_alloc_pages(page, order, gfp_flags);
+	xpfo_alloc_pages(page, order, gfp_flags, will_map);
 	set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_flags);
 }
 
+extern bool xpfo_test;
 static void prep_new_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags,
 							unsigned int alloc_flags)
 {
 	int i;
+	bool needs_zero = !free_pages_prezeroed() && (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO);
 
-	post_alloc_hook(page, order, gfp_flags);
+	post_alloc_hook(page, order, gfp_flags, needs_zero);
 
-	if (!free_pages_prezeroed() && (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO))
+	if (needs_zero)
 		for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
 			clear_highpage(page + i);
 
diff --git a/mm/xpfo.c b/mm/xpfo.c
index ca5d4d1838f9..dd25e24213fe 100644
--- a/mm/xpfo.c
+++ b/mm/xpfo.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static inline struct xpfo *lookup_xpfo(struct page *page)
 	return (void *)page_ext + page_xpfo_ops.offset;
 }
 
-void xpfo_alloc_pages(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp)
+void xpfo_alloc_pages(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp, bool will_map)
 {
 	int i, flush_tlb = 0;
 	struct xpfo *xpfo;
@@ -116,8 +116,14 @@ void xpfo_alloc_pages(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp)
 			 * Tag the page as a user page and flush the TLB if it
 			 * was previously allocated to the kernel.
 			 */
-			if (!test_and_set_bit(XPFO_PAGE_USER, &xpfo->flags))
+			bool was_user = !test_and_set_bit(XPFO_PAGE_USER,
+							  &xpfo->flags);
+
+			if (was_user || !will_map) {
+				set_kpte(page_address(page + i), page + i,
+					 __pgprot(0));
 				flush_tlb = 1;
+			}
 		} else {
 			/* Tag the page as a non-user (kernel) page */
 			clear_bit(XPFO_PAGE_USER, &xpfo->flags);
-- 
2.11.0

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