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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Jonathan Adams <jwadams@google.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/7] x86/mm/fault: hook up SCI verification
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:47:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190428054711.GD14896@rapoport-lnx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190426074223.GY4038@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 09:42:23AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:45:52AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > If a system call runs in isolated context, it's accesses to kernel code and
> > data will be verified by SCI susbsytem.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> 
> There's a distinct lack of touching do_double_fault(). It appears to me
> that you'll instantly trigger #DF when you #PF, because the #PF handler
> itself will not be able to run.

The #PF handler is able to run. On interrupt/error entry the cr3 is
switched to the full kernel page tables, pretty much like PTI does for
user <-> kernel transitions. It's in the patch 3.
 
> And then obviously you have to be very careful to make sure #DF can,
> _at_all_times_ run, otherwise you'll tripple-fault and we all know what
> that does.
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-28  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-25 21:45 [RFC PATCH 0/7] x86: introduce system calls addess space isolation Mike Rapoport
2019-04-25 21:45 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] x86/cpufeatures: add X86_FEATURE_SCI Mike Rapoport
2019-04-25 21:45 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] x86/sci: add core implementation for system call isolation Mike Rapoport
2019-04-26  7:49   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-28  5:45     ` Mike Rapoport
2019-04-26  8:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-26  9:58     ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-26 21:26       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-27  8:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-27 10:46           ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-29 18:26             ` James Morris
2019-04-29 18:43               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-29 18:46             ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-30  5:03               ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-30  9:38                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-30 11:05                   ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-02 11:35             ` Robert O'Callahan
2019-05-02 15:20               ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-02 21:07                 ` Robert O'Callahan
2019-04-26 14:44     ` James Bottomley
2019-04-26 14:46   ` Dave Hansen
2019-04-26 14:57     ` James Bottomley
2019-04-26 15:07       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-26 15:19         ` James Bottomley
2019-04-26 17:40           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-26 18:49             ` James Bottomley
2019-04-26 19:22               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-25 21:45 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] x86/entry/64: add infrastructure for switching to isolated syscall context Mike Rapoport
2019-04-25 21:45 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] x86/sci: hook up isolated system call entry and exit Mike Rapoport
2019-04-25 21:45 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] x86/mm/fault: hook up SCI verification Mike Rapoport
2019-04-26  7:42   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-28  5:47     ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2019-04-30 16:44       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-01  5:39         ` Mike Rapoport
2019-04-25 21:45 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] security: enable system call isolation in kernel config Mike Rapoport
2019-04-25 21:45 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] sci: add example system calls to exercse SCI Mike Rapoport
2019-04-26  0:30 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] x86: introduce system calls addess space isolation Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-26  8:07   ` Jiri Kosina
2019-04-28  6:01   ` Mike Rapoport
2019-04-26 14:41 ` Dave Hansen
2019-04-28  6:08   ` Mike Rapoport

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