Re: [PATCH v15 01/13] x86/sev: Carve out and export SNP guest messaging init routines

Nikunj A. Dadhania
2024-12-05T06:24:03Z

On 12/5/2024 1:32 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 03:30:13PM +0530, Nikunj A. Dadhania wrote:
>> The above ones I have retained old code.
>
> Right.
>
>> GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT allocation are accounted in kmemcg and the below note from[1]
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Untrusted allocations triggered from userspace should be a subject of kmem
>> accounting and must have __GFP_ACCOUNT bit set. There is the handy
>> GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT shortcut for GFP_KERNEL allocations that should be accounted.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Interesting.
>
>> For mdesc, I had kept it similar to snp_dev allocation, that is why it is
>> having GFP_KERNEL.
>>
>> snp_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct snp_guest_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
>> if (!snp_dev)
>> - goto e_unmap;
>> -
>> - mdesc = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct snp_msg_desc), GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> Let me know if mdesc allocation need to be GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT.
>
> Let's audit that thing:
>
> * snp_init_crypto - not really untrusted allocation. It is on the driver probe
> path.
>
> * get_report - I don't think so:
>
> /*
> * The intermediate response buffer is used while decrypting the
> * response payload. Make sure that it has enough space to cover the
> * authtag.
> */
> resp_len = sizeof(report_resp->data) + mdesc->ctx->authsize;
> report_resp = kzalloc(resp_len, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
>
> That resp_len is limited and that's on the guest_ioctl path which cannot
> happen concurrently?

It is a trusted allocation, but should it be accounted as it is part of
the userspace ioctl path ?

>
> * get_ext_report - ditto
>
> * alloc_shared_pages - all the allocations are limited but I guess that could
> remain _ACCOUNT as a measure for future robustness.

Ok.

> And that was it.
>
> So AFAICT, only one use case is semi-valid.
>
> So maybe we should convert those remaining ones to boring GFP_KERNEL...
>

Sure, let me add this as a pre-patch.

Regards,
Nikunj