Re: [PATCH 07/32] mm: Bring back vmalloc_exec

Mike Rapoport
2023-05-17T14:04:42Z

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 01:28:43AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 10:47:13PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 05:20:33PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 02:02:11PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > For something that small, why not use the text_poke API?
> > >
> > > This looks like it's meant for patching existing kernel text, which
> > > isn't what I want - I'm generating new functions on the fly, one per
> > > btree node.
> > >
> > > I'm working up a new allocator - a (very simple) slab allocator where
> > > you pass a buffer, and it gives you a copy of that buffer mapped
> > > executable, but not writeable.
> > >
> > > It looks like we'll be able to convert bpf, kprobes, and ftrace
> > > trampolines to it; it'll consolidate a fair amount of code (particularly
> > > in bpf), and they won't have to burn a full page per allocation anymore.
> > >
> > > bpf has a neat trick where it maps the same page in two different
> > > locations, one is the executable location and the other is the writeable
> > > location - I'm stealing that.
> >
> > How does that avoid the problem of being able to construct an arbitrary
> > gadget that somebody else will then execute? IOW, what bpf has done
> > seems like it's working around & undoing the security improvements.
> >
> > I suppose it's an improvement that only the executable address is
> > passed back to the caller, and not the writable address.
>
> Ok, here's what I came up with. Have not tested all corner cases, still
> need to write docs - but I think this gives us a nicer interface than
> what bpf/kprobes/etc. have been doing, and it does the sub-page sized
> allocations I need.
>
> With an additional tweak to module_alloc() (not done in this patch yet)
> we avoid ever mapping in pages both writeable and executable:
>
> -->--
>
> From 6eeb6b8ef4271ea1a8d9cac7fbaeeb7704951976 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
> Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 01:22:06 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: jit/text allocator
>
> This provides a new, very simple slab allocator for jit/text, i.e. bpf,
> ftrace trampolines, or bcachefs unpack functions.
>
> With this API we can avoid ever mapping pages both writeable and
> executable (not implemented in this patch: need to tweak
> module_alloc()), and it also supports sub-page sized allocations.

This looks like yet another workaround for that module_alloc() was not
designed to handle permission changes. Rather than create more and more
wrappers for module_alloc() we need to have core API for code allocation,
apparently on top of vmalloc, and then use that API for modules, bpf,
tracing and whatnot.

There was quite lengthy discussion about how to handle code allocations
here:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20221107223921.3451913-1-song@kernel.org/

and Song is already working on improvements for module_alloc(), e.g. see
commit ac3b43283923 ("module: replace module_layout with module_memory")

Another thing, the code below will not even compile on !x86.

> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/jitalloc.h b/include/linux/jitalloc.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..f1549d60e8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/jitalloc.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +#ifndef _LINUX_JITALLOC_H
> +#define _LINUX_JITALLOC_H
> +
> +void jit_update(void *buf, void *new_buf, size_t len);
> +void jit_free(void *buf);
> +void *jit_alloc(void *buf, size_t len);
> +
> +#endif /* _LINUX_JITALLOC_H */
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 4751031f3f..ff26a4f0c9 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -1202,6 +1202,9 @@ config LRU_GEN_STATS
> This option has a per-memcg and per-node memory overhead.
> # }
>
> +config JITALLOC
> + bool
> +
> source "mm/damon/Kconfig"
>
> endmenu
> diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
> index c03e1e5859..25e82db9e8 100644
> --- a/mm/Makefile
> +++ b/mm/Makefile
> @@ -138,3 +138,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IO_MAPPING) += io-mapping.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE) += bootmem_info.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_IOREMAP) += ioremap.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG) += shrinker_debug.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_JITALLOC) += jitalloc.o
> diff --git a/mm/jitalloc.c b/mm/jitalloc.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..7c4d621802
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/mm/jitalloc.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +#include <linux/gfp.h>
> +#include <linux/highmem.h>
> +#include <linux/jitalloc.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
> +#include <linux/moduleloader.h>
> +#include <linux/mutex.h>
> +#include <linux/set_memory.h>
> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> +
> +#include <asm/text-patching.h>
> +
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(jit_alloc_lock);
> +
> +struct jit_cache {
> + unsigned obj_size_bits;
> + unsigned objs_per_slab;
> + struct list_head partial;
> +};
> +
> +#define JITALLOC_MIN_SIZE 16
> +#define NR_JIT_CACHES ilog2(PAGE_SIZE / JITALLOC_MIN_SIZE)
> +
> +static struct jit_cache jit_caches[NR_JIT_CACHES];
> +
> +struct jit_slab {
> + unsigned long __page_flags;
> +
> + struct jit_cache *cache;
> + void *executably_mapped;;
> + unsigned long *objs_allocated; /* bitmap of free objects */
> + struct list_head list;
> +};
> +
> +#define folio_jit_slab(folio) (_Generic((folio), \
> + const struct folio *: (const struct jit_slab *)(folio), \
> + struct folio *: (struct jit_slab *)(folio)))
> +
> +#define jit_slab_folio(s) (_Generic((s), \
> + const struct jit_slab *: (const struct folio *)s, \
> + struct jit_slab *: (struct folio *)s))
> +
> +static struct jit_slab *jit_slab_alloc(struct jit_cache *cache)
> +{
> + void *executably_mapped = module_alloc(PAGE_SIZE);
> + struct page *page;
> + struct folio *folio;
> + struct jit_slab *slab;
> + unsigned long *objs_allocated;
> +
> + if (!executably_mapped)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + objs_allocated = kcalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(cache->objs_per_slab), sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!objs_allocated ) {
> + vfree(executably_mapped);
> + return NULL;
> + }
> +
> + set_vm_flush_reset_perms(executably_mapped);
> + set_memory_rox((unsigned long) executably_mapped, 1);
> +
> + page = vmalloc_to_page(executably_mapped);
> + folio = page_folio(page);
> +
> + __folio_set_slab(folio);
> + slab = folio_jit_slab(folio);
> + slab->cache = cache;
> + slab->executably_mapped = executably_mapped;
> + slab->objs_allocated = objs_allocated;
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&slab->list);
> +
> + return slab;
> +}
> +
> +static void *jit_cache_alloc(void *buf, size_t len, struct jit_cache *cache)
> +{
> + struct jit_slab *s =
> + list_first_entry_or_null(&cache->partial, struct jit_slab, list) ?:
> + jit_slab_alloc(cache);
> + unsigned obj_idx, nr_allocated;
> +
> + if (!s)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + obj_idx = find_first_zero_bit(s->objs_allocated, cache->objs_per_slab);
> +
> + BUG_ON(obj_idx >= cache->objs_per_slab);
> + __set_bit(obj_idx, s->objs_allocated);
> +
> + nr_allocated = bitmap_weight(s->objs_allocated, s->cache->objs_per_slab);
> +
> + if (nr_allocated == s->cache->objs_per_slab) {
> + list_del_init(&s->list);
> + } else if (nr_allocated == 1) {
> + list_del(&s->list);
> + list_add(&s->list, &s->cache->partial);
> + }
> +
> + return s->executably_mapped + (obj_idx << cache->obj_size_bits);
> +}
> +
> +void jit_update(void *buf, void *new_buf, size_t len)
> +{
> + text_poke_copy(buf, new_buf, len);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(jit_update);
> +
> +void jit_free(void *buf)
> +{
> + struct page *page;
> + struct folio *folio;
> + struct jit_slab *s;
> + unsigned obj_idx, nr_allocated;
> + size_t offset;
> +
> + if (!buf)
> + return;
> +
> + page = vmalloc_to_page(buf);
> + folio = page_folio(page);
> + offset = offset_in_folio(folio, buf);
> +
> + if (!folio_test_slab(folio)) {
> + vfree(buf);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + s = folio_jit_slab(folio);
> +
> + mutex_lock(&jit_alloc_lock);
> + obj_idx = offset >> s->cache->obj_size_bits;
> +
> + __clear_bit(obj_idx, s->objs_allocated);
> +
> + nr_allocated = bitmap_weight(s->objs_allocated, s->cache->objs_per_slab);
> +
> + if (nr_allocated == 0) {
> + list_del(&s->list);
> + kfree(s->objs_allocated);
> + folio_put(folio);
> + } else if (nr_allocated + 1 == s->cache->objs_per_slab) {
> + list_del(&s->list);
> + list_add(&s->list, &s->cache->partial);
> + }
> +
> + mutex_unlock(&jit_alloc_lock);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(jit_free);
> +
> +void *jit_alloc(void *buf, size_t len)
> +{
> + unsigned jit_cache_idx = ilog2(roundup_pow_of_two(len) / 16);
> + void *p;
> +
> + if (jit_cache_idx < NR_JIT_CACHES) {
> + mutex_lock(&jit_alloc_lock);
> + p = jit_cache_alloc(buf, len, &jit_caches[jit_cache_idx]);
> + mutex_unlock(&jit_alloc_lock);
> + } else {
> + p = module_alloc(len);
> + if (p) {
> + set_vm_flush_reset_perms(p);
> + set_memory_rox((unsigned long) p, DIV_ROUND_UP(len, PAGE_SIZE));
> + }
> + }
> +
> + if (p && buf)
> + jit_update(p, buf, len);
> +
> + return p;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(jit_alloc);
> +
> +static int __init jit_alloc_init(void)
> +{
> + for (unsigned i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(jit_caches); i++) {
> + jit_caches[i].obj_size_bits = ilog2(JITALLOC_MIN_SIZE) + i;
> + jit_caches[i].objs_per_slab = PAGE_SIZE >> jit_caches[i].obj_size_bits;
> +
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&jit_caches[i].partial);
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +core_initcall(jit_alloc_init);
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.