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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] mm/page_table_check: Support userfault wr-protect entries
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 03:44:29PM -0400, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 3:26 PM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Allow page_table_check hooks to check over userfaultfd wr-protect criteria
> > upon pgtable updates. The rule is no co-existance allowed for any writable
> > flag against userfault wr-protect flag.
> >
> > This should be better than c2da319c2e, where we used to only sanitize such
> > issues during a pgtable walk, but when hitting such issue we don't have a
> > good chance to know where does that writable bit came from [1], so that
> > even the pgtable walk exposes a kernel bug (which is still helpful on
> > triaging) but not easy to track and debug.
> >
> > Now we switch to track the source. It's much easier too with the recent
> > introduction of page table check.
> >
> > There are some limitations with using the page table check here for
> > userfaultfd wr-protect purpose:
> >
> > - It is only enabled with explicit enablement of page table check configs
> > and/or boot parameters, but should be good enough to track at least
> > syzbot issues, as syzbot should enable PAGE_TABLE_CHECK[_ENFORCED] for
> > x86 [1]. We used to have DEBUG_VM but it's now off for most distros,
> > while distros also normally not enable PAGE_TABLE_CHECK[_ENFORCED], which
> > is similar.
> >
> > - It conditionally works with the ptep_modify_prot API. It will be
> > bypassed when e.g. XEN PV is enabled, however still work for most of the
> > rest scenarios, which should be the common cases so should be good
> > enough.
> >
> > - Hugetlb check is a bit hairy, as the page table check cannot identify
> > hugetlb pte or normal pte via trapping at set_pte_at(), because of the
> > current design where hugetlb maps every layers to pte_t... For example,
> > the default set_huge_pte_at() can invoke set_pte_at() directly and lose
> > the hugetlb context, treating it the same as a normal pte_t. So far it's
> > fine because we have huge_pte_uffd_wp() always equals to pte_uffd_wp() as
> > long as supported (x86 only). It'll be a bigger problem when we'll
> > define _PAGE_UFFD_WP differently at various pgtable levels, because then
> > one huge_pte_uffd_wp() per-arch will stop making sense first.. as of now
> > we can leave this for later too.
> >
> > This patch also removes commit c2da319c2e altogether, as we have something
> > better now.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000dce0530615c89210@google.com/
> >
> > Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > v2:
> > - Rename __page_table_check_pxx() to page_table_check_pxx_flags(),
> > meanwhile move the pte check out of the loop [Pasha]
> > - Fix build issues reported from the bot, also added SWP_DEVICE_WRITE which
> > was overlooked before
> > v3:
> > - Add missing doc update [Pasha]
> > ---
> > Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst | 9 ++++++-
> > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 18 +------------
> > mm/page_table_check.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst
> > index c12838ce6b8d..5bd1d987d76d 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst
> > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Page table check performs extra verifications at the time when new pages become
> > accessible from the userspace by getting their page table entries (PTEs PMDs
> > etc.) added into the table.
> >
> > -In case of detected corruption, the kernel is crashed. There is a small
> > +In case of most detected corruption, the kernel is crashed. There is a small
> > performance and memory overhead associated with the page table check. Therefore,
> > it is disabled by default, but can be optionally enabled on systems where the
> > extra hardening outweighs the performance costs. Also, because page table check
> > @@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ is synchronous, it can help with debugging double map memory corruption issues,
> > by crashing kernel at the time wrong mapping occurs instead of later which is
> > often the case with memory corruptions bugs.
> >
> > +It can also be used to do page table entry checks over various flags, dump
> > +warnings when illegal combinations of entry flags are detected. Currently,
> > +userfaultfd is the only user of such to sanity check wr-protect bit against
> > +any writable flags. Illegal flag combinations will not directly cause data
> > +corruption in this case immediately, but that will cause read-only data to
> > +be writable, causing data corrupt when the page content is later modified.
>
> I would replace: "causing data corrupt ..." to "leading to corruption ..."

OK.

>
> > +
> > Double mapping detection logic
> > ==============================
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > index 273f7557218c..65b8e5bb902c 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> > @@ -388,23 +388,7 @@ static inline pte_t pte_wrprotect(pte_t pte)
> > #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
> > static inline int pte_uffd_wp(pte_t pte)
> > {
> > - bool wp = pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_UFFD_WP;
> > -
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
> > - /*
> > - * Having write bit for wr-protect-marked present ptes is fatal,
> > - * because it means the uffd-wp bit will be ignored and write will
> > - * just go through.
> > - *
> > - * Use any chance of pgtable walking to verify this (e.g., when
> > - * page swapped out or being migrated for all purposes). It means
> > - * something is already wrong. Tell the admin even before the
> > - * process crashes. We also nail it with wrong pgtable setup.
> > - */
> > - WARN_ON_ONCE(wp && pte_write(pte));
> > -#endif
> > -
> > - return wp;
> > + return pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_UFFD_WP;
> > }
> >
> > static inline pte_t pte_mkuffd_wp(pte_t pte)
> > diff --git a/mm/page_table_check.c b/mm/page_table_check.c
> > index af69c3c8f7c2..388bcf60d8b5 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_table_check.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_table_check.c
> > @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
> > #include <linux/kstrtox.h>
> > #include <linux/mm.h>
> > #include <linux/page_table_check.h>
> > +#include <linux/swap.h>
> > +#include <linux/swapops.h>
> >
> > #undef pr_fmt
> > #define pr_fmt(fmt) "page_table_check: " fmt
> > @@ -182,6 +184,31 @@ void __page_table_check_pud_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t pud)
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_table_check_pud_clear);
> >
> > +/* Whether the swap entry cached writable information */
> > +static inline bool swap_cached_writable(swp_entry_t entry)
> > +{
> > + unsigned type = swp_type(entry);
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE
> > + if (type == SWP_DEVICE_EXCLUSIVE_WRITE || type == SWP_DEVICE_WRITE)
> > + return true;
> > +#endif
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
> > + if (type == SWP_MIGRATION_WRITE)
> > + return true;
> > +#endif
> > +
> > + return false;
> > +}
>
> This should be re-written like this:
>
> static inline bool swap_cached_writable(swp_entry_t entry)
> {
> return is_writable_device_exclusive_entry(entry) ||
> is_writable_device_private_entry(entry) ||
> is_writable_migration_entry(entry);
> }
>
> Otherwise the patch looks good.

Oops, yes definitely.. I'll prepare one more.

--
Peter Xu


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