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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sparc64: Add support for Application Data Integrity (ADI)
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On 03/03/2016 03:26 PM, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi Khalid,
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:42 AM, Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 03/02/2016 06:33 PM, Julian Calaby wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Khalid,
>>>
>>> A couple of other comments:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:54 AM, Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Enable Application Data Integrity (ADI) support in the sparc
>>>> kernel for applications to use ADI in userspace. ADI is a new
>>>> feature supported on sparc M7 and newer processors. ADI is supported
>>>> for data fetches only and not instruction fetches. This patch adds
>>>> prctl commands to enable and disable ADI (TSTATE.mcde), return ADI
>>>> parameters to userspace, enable/disable MCD (Memory Corruption
>>>> Detection) on selected memory ranges and enable TTE.mcd in PTEs. It
>>>> also adds handlers for all traps related to MCD. ADI is not enabled
>>>> by default for any task and a task must explicitly enable ADI
>>>> (TSTATE.mcde), turn MCD on on a memory range and set version tag
>>>> for ADI to be effective for the task. This patch adds support for
>>>> ADI for hugepages only. Addresses passed into system calls must be
>>>> non-ADI tagged addresses.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> NOTES: ADI is a new feature added to M7 processor to allow hardware
>>>> to catch rogue accesses to memory. An app can enable ADI on
>>>> its data pages, set version tags on them and use versioned
>>>> addresses (bits 63-60 of the address contain a version tag)
>>>> to access the data pages. If a rogue app attempts to access
>>>> ADI enabled data pages, its access is blocked and processor
>>>> generates an exception. Enabling this functionality for all
>>>> data pages of an app requires adding infrastructure to save
>>>> version tags for any data pages that get swapped out and
>>>> restoring those tags when pages are swapped back in. In this
>>>> first implementation I am enabling ADI for hugepages only
>>>> since these pages are locked in memory and hence avoid the
>>>> issue of saving and restoring tags. Once this core functionality
>>>> is stable, ADI for other memory pages can be enabled more
>>>> easily.
>>>>
>>>> Documentation/prctl/sparc_adi.txt | 62 ++++++++++
>>>> Documentation/sparc/adi.txt | 206
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> arch/sparc/Kconfig | 12 ++
>>>> arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 14 +++
>>>> arch/sparc/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 2 +
>>>> arch/sparc/include/asm/mmu_64.h | 1 +
>>>> arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 15 +++
>>>> arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h | 19 +++
>>>> arch/sparc/include/asm/ttable.h | 10 ++
>>>> arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/asi.h | 3 +
>>>> arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/pstate.h | 10 ++
>>>> arch/sparc/kernel/entry.h | 3 +
>>>> arch/sparc/kernel/head_64.S | 1 +
>>>> arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 81 +++++++++++++
>>>> arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c | 221
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> arch/sparc/kernel/sun4v_mcd.S | 16 +++
>>>> arch/sparc/kernel/traps_64.c | 96 ++++++++++++++-
>>>> arch/sparc/kernel/ttable_64.S | 6 +-
>>>> include/linux/mm.h | 2 +
>>>> include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h | 5 +-
>>>> include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 16 +++
>>>> kernel/sys.c | 30 +++++
>>>> 22 files changed, 825 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/prctl/sparc_adi.txt
>>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/sparc/adi.txt
>>>> create mode 100644 arch/sparc/kernel/sun4v_mcd.S
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
>>>> b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
>>>> index 131d36f..cddea30 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
>>>> +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
>>>> @@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ bool kern_addr_valid(unsigned long addr);
>>>> #define _PAGE_E_4V _AC(0x0000000000000800,UL) /* side-Effect
>>>> */
>>>> #define _PAGE_CP_4V _AC(0x0000000000000400,UL) /* Cacheable in
>>>> P-Cache */
>>>> #define _PAGE_CV_4V _AC(0x0000000000000200,UL) /* Cacheable in
>>>> V-Cache */
>>>> +/* Bit 9 is used to enable MCD corruption detection instead on M7
>>>> + */
>>>> +#define _PAGE_MCD_4V _AC(0x0000000000000200,UL) /* Memory Corruption
>>>> */
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that everywhere _PAGE_CV_4V is used is guarded against
>>> setting it on M7, could someone who knows the code better than I do
>>> please check that? It looks like the tests around it's use are
>>> essentially "is it sun4v".
>>>
>>> I'm probably being paranoid, but reused values like this make me worry.
>>>
>>
>> I took care of this issue in an earlier patch (commit
>> 494e5b6faeda1d1e830a13e10b3c7bc323f35d97 - "sparc: Resolve conflict between
>> sparc v9 and M7 on usage of bit 9 of TTE"), so I think we are ok here.
>
> Ah, I remember those changes, however I didn't recall which processor
> they were for, so that's awesome.
>
>>>> #define _PAGE_P_4V _AC(0x0000000000000100,UL) /* Privileged Page
>>>> */
>>>> #define _PAGE_EXEC_4V _AC(0x0000000000000080,UL) /* Executable Page
>>>> */
>>>> #define _PAGE_W_4V _AC(0x0000000000000040,UL) /* Writable
>>>> */
>>>> diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/pstate.h
>>>> b/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/pstate.h
>>>> index cf832e1..d0521db 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/pstate.h
>>>> +++ b/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/pstate.h
>>>> @@ -10,7 +10,12 @@
>>>> *
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> * 63 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
>>>> 0
>>>> */
>>>> +/* IG on V9 conflicts with MCDE on M7. PSTATE_MCDE will only be used on
>>>> + * processors that support ADI which do not use IG, hence there is no
>>>> + * functional conflict
>>>> + */
>>>> #define PSTATE_IG _AC(0x0000000000000800,UL) /* Interrupt Globals.
>>>> */
>>>> +#define PSTATE_MCDE _AC(0x0000000000000800,UL) /* MCD Enable
>>>> */
>>>
>>>
>>> Again, I can't tell if the code that uses PSTATE_IG is guarded against
>>> use on M7. Could someone else please check? It's used in cherrs.S
>>> which appears to be Cheetah specific, so that's not a problem, however
>>> it's also used in ultra.S in xcall_sync_tick which might get patched
>>> out however I don't know the code well enough to be certain. I'm also
>>> guessing that as this file is in include/uapi, userspace could use it
>>> for something.
>>
>>
>> My understanding of the code in ultra.S is xcall_sync_tick doe snot get
>> called on sun4v, so PSTATE_IG will not get set unintentionally on M7.
>> include/uapi is an interesting thought. PSTATE is a privileged register, so
>> userspace can not write to it directly without using a system call. I don't
>> think that is an issue here.
>
> Is it something userspace would interpret then? I guess any software
> making use of the PSTATE or TSTATE registers would have to handle any
> processor differences itself.
>
> Thanks for explaining this!
>

Same limitation applies even in that case. Since this is a privileged
register, it can not be read by userspace without going into a system
call. From the sparc manual - "......visible only to software running in
privileged mode; that is, when PSTATE.PRIV = 1."

Thanks,
Khalid

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