Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 05/10] arm64/mm: Add support for XPFO

Laura Abbott
2017-08-11T18:01:52Z

On 08/09/2017 01:07 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> From: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@hpe.com>
>
> Enable support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO) for arm64 and
> provide a hook for updating a single kernel page table entry (which is
> required by the generic XPFO code).
>
> At the moment, only 64k page sizes are supported.
>

Can you add a note somewhere explaining this limitation or what's
on the TODO list?

> Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@canonical.com>
> Tested-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/arm64/mm/Makefile | 2 ++
> arch/arm64/mm/xpfo.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 67 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index dfd908630631..2ddae41e0793 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ config ARM64
> select SPARSE_IRQ
> select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
> select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
> + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_XPFO if ARM64_64K_PAGES
> help
> ARM 64-bit (AArch64) Linux support.
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/Makefile b/arch/arm64/mm/Makefile
> index 9b0ba191e48e..22e5cab543d8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/Makefile
> @@ -11,3 +11,5 @@ KASAN_SANITIZE_physaddr.o += n
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_KASAN) += kasan_init.o
> KASAN_SANITIZE_kasan_init.o := n
> +
> +obj-$(CONFIG_XPFO) += xpfo.o
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/xpfo.c b/arch/arm64/mm/xpfo.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..de03a652d48a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/xpfo.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2017 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development, L.P.
> + * Copyright (C) 2016 Brown University. All rights reserved.
> + *
> + * Authors:
> + * Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@hpe.com>
> + * Vasileios P. Kemerlis <vpk@cs.brown.edu>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
> + * the Free Software Foundation.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +
> +#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
> +
> +/*
> + * Lookup the page table entry for a virtual address and return a pointer to
> + * the entry. Based on x86 tree.
> + */
> +static pte_t *lookup_address(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> + pgd_t *pgd;
> + pud_t *pud;
> + pmd_t *pmd;
> +
> + pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
> + if (pgd_none(*pgd))
> + return NULL;
> +
> + BUG_ON(pgd_bad(*pgd));
> +
> + pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
> + if (pud_none(*pud))
> + return NULL;
> +
> + BUG_ON(pud_bad(*pud));
> +
> + pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
> + if (pmd_none(*pmd))
> + return NULL;
> +
> + BUG_ON(pmd_bad(*pmd));
> +
> + return pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
> +}

We already have much of this logic implemented for kernel_page_present
in arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c, we should move this into there and
make this common, similar to x86

> +
> +/* Update a single kernel page table entry */
> +inline void set_kpte(void *kaddr, struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
> +{
> + pte_t *pte = lookup_address((unsigned long)kaddr);
> +
> + set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(page), prot));
> +}
> +
> +inline void xpfo_flush_kernel_page(struct page *page, int order)
> +{
> + unsigned long kaddr = (unsigned long)page_address(page);
> + unsigned long size = PAGE_SIZE;
> +
> + flush_tlb_kernel_range(kaddr, kaddr + (1 << order) * size);
> +}
>