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SubjectRe: [RFC v2][PATCH 04/11] x86: Implement __arch_rare_write_begin/unmap()
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>> Based on PaX's x86 pax_{open,close}_kernel() implementation, this
>>>> allows HAVE_ARCH_RARE_WRITE to work on x86.
>>>>
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +static __always_inline unsigned long __arch_rare_write_begin(void)
>>>> +{
>>>> + unsigned long cr0;
>>>> +
>>>> + preempt_disable();
>>>
>>> This looks wrong. DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()) would work,
>>> as would local_irq_disable(). There's no way that just disabling
>>> preemption is enough.
>>>
>>> (Also, how does this interact with perf nmis?)
>>
>> Do you mean preempt_disable() isn't strong enough here? I'm open to
>> suggestions. The goal would be to make sure nothing between _begin and
>> _end would get executed without interruption...
>>
>
> Sorry for the very slow response.
>
> preempt_disable() isn't strong enough to prevent interrupts, and an
> interrupt here would run with WP off, causing unknown havoc. I tend
> to think that the caller should be responsible for turning off
> interrupts.

So, something like:

Top-level functions:

static __always_inline rare_write_begin(void)
{
preempt_disable();
local_irq_disable();
barrier();
__arch_rare_write_begin();
barrier();
}

static __always_inline rare_write_end(void)
{
barrier();
__arch_rare_write_end();
barrier();
local_irq_enable();
preempt_enable_no_resched();
}

x86-specific helpers:

static __always_inline unsigned long __arch_rare_write_begin(void)
{
unsigned long cr0;

cr0 = read_cr0() ^ X86_CR0_WP;
BUG_ON(cr0 & X86_CR0_WP);
write_cr0(cr0);
return cr0 ^ X86_CR0_WP;
}

static __always_inline unsigned long __arch_rare_write_end(void)
{
unsigned long cr0;

cr0 = read_cr0() ^ X86_CR0_WP;
BUG_ON(!(cr0 & X86_CR0_WP));
write_cr0(cr0);
return cr0 ^ X86_CR0_WP;
}

I can give it a spin...

-Kees

--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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