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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 02:07:17 -0600
From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>
To: "Stecklina, Julian" <jsteckli@...zon.de>
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Subject: Re: Redoing eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO) with isolated CPUs
in mind (for KVM to isolate its guests per CPU)
On 09/24/2018 08:45 AM, Stecklina, Julian wrote:
> I didn't test the version with TLB flushes, because it's clear that the
> overhead is so bad that no one wants to use this.
I don't think we can ignore the vulnerability caused by not flushing
stale TLB entries. On a mostly idle system, TLB entries hang around long
enough to make it fairly easy to exploit this. I was able to use the
additional test in lkdtm module added by this patch series to
successfully read pages unmapped from physmap by just waiting for system
to become idle. A rogue program can simply monitor system load and mount
its attack using ret2dir exploit when system is mostly idle. This brings
us back to the prohibitive cost of TLB flushes. If we are unmapping a
page from physmap every time the page is allocated to userspace, we are
forced to incur the cost of TLB flushes in some way. Work Tycho was
doing to implement Dave's suggestion can help here. Once Tycho has
something working, I can measure overhead on my test machine. Tycho, I
can help with your implementation if you need.
--
Khalid
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