Re: [PATCH RFC v3 30/35] arm64: mte: ptrace: Handle pages with missing tag storage

Anshuman Khandual
2024-02-01T09:22:15Z

On 1/25/24 22:12, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> A page can end up mapped in a MTE enabled VMA without the corresponding tag
> storage block reserved. Tag accesses made by ptrace in this case can lead
> to the wrong tags being read or memory corruption for the process that is
> using the tag storage memory as data.
>
> Reserve tag storage by treating ptrace accesses like a fault.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
> ---
>
> Changes since rfc v2:
>
> * New patch, issue reported by Peter Collingbourne.
>
> arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> index faf09da3400a..b1fa02dad4fd 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> @@ -412,10 +412,13 @@ static int __access_remote_tags(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> while (len) {
> struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> unsigned long tags, offset;
> + unsigned int fault_flags;
> + struct page *page;
> + vm_fault_t ret;
> void *maddr;
> - struct page *page = get_user_page_vma_remote(mm, addr,
> - gup_flags, &vma);
>
> +get_page:
> + page = get_user_page_vma_remote(mm, addr, gup_flags, &vma);

But if there is valid page returned here in the first GUP attempt, will there
still be a subsequent handle_mm_fault() on the same vma and addr ?

> if (IS_ERR(page)) {
> err = PTR_ERR(page);
> break;
> @@ -433,6 +436,25 @@ static int __access_remote_tags(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> put_page(page);
> break;
> }
> +
> + if (tag_storage_enabled() && !page_tag_storage_reserved(page)) {

Should not '!page' be checked here as well ?

> + fault_flags = FAULT_FLAG_DEFAULT | \
> + FAULT_FLAG_USER | \
> + FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE | \
> + FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | \
> + FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT;
> + if (write)
> + fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
> +
> + put_page(page);
> + ret = handle_mm_fault(vma, addr, fault_flags, NULL);
> + if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR) {
> + err = -EFAULT;
> + break;
> + }
> + goto get_page;
> + }
> +
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!page_mte_tagged(page));
>
> /* limit access to the end of the page */