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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:44:18 +0200
From: Christoffer Dall <cdall@...aro.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: Allow usercopy to vcpu->arch.ctxt and
arm64 debug
On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 08:06:10PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Christoffer Dall
> <christoffer.dall@...aro.org> wrote:
> > We do direct useraccess copying to the kvm_cpu_context structure
> > embedded in the kvm_vcpu_arch structure, and to the vcpu debug register
> > state. Everything else (timer, PMU, vgic) goes through a temporary
> > indirection.
>
> Are these copies done with a dynamic size? The normal way these get
> whitelisted is via builtin_const sizes on the copy. Looking at
> KVM_REG_SIZE(), though, it seems that would be a dynamic calculation.
>
It's super confusing, but it's actually static.
We can only get to thee functions via kvm_arm_sys_reg_get_reg() and
kvm_arm_sys_reg_set_reg(), and they both do
if (KVM_REG_SIZE(reg->id) != sizeof(__u64))"
return -ENOENT;
So this is always a u64 copy. However, I think it's much clearer if I
rewrite these to use get_user() and put_user(). v2 incoming.
> > Fixing all accesses to kvm_cpu_context is massively invasive, and we'd
> > like to avoid that, so we tell kvm_init_usercopy to whitelist accesses
> > to out context structure.
> >
> > The debug system register accesses on arm64 are modified to work through
> > an indirection instead.
> >
> > Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
> > ---
> > This fixes KVM/ARM on today's linux next with CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
> >
> > The patch is based on linux-next plus Paolo's x86 patch which introduces
> > kvm_init_usercopy. Not sure how this needs to get merged, but it would
> > potentially make sense for Paolo to put together a set of the patches
> > needed for this.
>
> I was planning to carry Paolo's patches, and I can take this one too.
Sounds good to me.
> If this poses a problem, then I could just do a two-phase commit of
> the whitelisting code, leaving the very last commit (which enables the
> defense for anything not yet whitelisted), until the KVM trees land.
>
> What's preferred?
Assuming there's an ack from Marc Zyngier on v2 of this patch, I prefer
you just take them as part of your series.
>
> Thanks for looking at this!
>
No problem,
-Christoffer
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