Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] x86/sgx: Do not consider unsanitized pages an error

Reinette Chatre
2022-08-31T20:40:13Z

Hi Jarkko,

On 8/31/2022 10:38 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> In sgx_init(), if misc_register() fails or misc_register() succeeds but
> neither sgx_drv_init() nor sgx_vepc_init() succeeds, then ksgxd will be
> prematurely stopped. This may leave some unsanitized pages, which does
> not matter, because SGX will be disabled for the whole power cycle.
>
> This triggers WARN_ON() because sgx_dirty_page_list ends up being
> non-empty, and dumps the call stack:
>
> [ 0.268103] sgx: EPC section 0x40200000-0x45f7ffff
> [ 0.268591] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 0.268592] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 83 at
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c:401 ksgxd+0x1b7/0x1d0
> [ 0.268598] Modules linked in:
> [ 0.268600] CPU: 6 PID: 83 Comm: ksgxd Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2 #382
> [ 0.268603] Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9370/0RMYH9, BIOS 1.21.0
> 07/06/2022
> [ 0.268604] RIP: 0010:ksgxd+0x1b7/0x1d0
> [ 0.268607] Code: ff e9 f2 fe ff ff 48 89 df e8 75 07 0e 00 84 c0 0f
> 84 c3 fe ff ff 31 ff e8 e6 07 0e 00 84 c0 0f 85 94 fe ff ff e9 af fe ff
> ff <0f> 0b e9 7f fe ff ff e8 dd 9c 95 00 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00
> [ 0.268608] RSP: 0000:ffffb6c7404f3ed8 EFLAGS: 00010287
> [ 0.268610] RAX: ffffb6c740431a10 RBX: ffff8dcd8117b400 RCX:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 0.268612] RDX: 0000000080000000 RSI: ffffb6c7404319d0 RDI:
> 00000000ffffffff
> [ 0.268613] RBP: ffff8dcd820a4d80 R08: ffff8dcd820a4180 R09:
> ffff8dcd820a4180
> [ 0.268614] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000006 R12:
> ffffb6c74006bce0
> [ 0.268615] R13: ffff8dcd80e63880 R14: ffffffffa8a60f10 R15:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 0.268616] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8dcf25580000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 0.268617] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 0.268619] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000213410001 CR4:
> 00000000003706e0
> [ 0.268620] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 0.268621] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7:
> 0000000000000400
> [ 0.268622] Call Trace:
> [ 0.268624] <TASK>
> [ 0.268627] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x24/0x60
> [ 0.268632] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x40
> [ 0.268634] ? __kthread_parkme+0x36/0x90
> [ 0.268637] kthread+0xe5/0x110
> [ 0.268639] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
> [ 0.268642] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> [ 0.268647] </TASK>
> [ 0.268648] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>

Are you still planning to trim this?

> Ultimately this can crash the kernel, if the following is set:
>
> /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_warn
>
> In premature stop, print nothing, as the number is by practical means a
> random number. Otherwise, it is an indicator of a bug in the driver, and
> therefore print the number of unsanitized pages with pr_err().

I think that "print the number of unsanitized pages with pr_err()"
contradicts the patch subject of "Do not consider unsanitized pages
an error".

...

> @@ -388,17 +393,40 @@ void sgx_reclaim_direct(void)
>
> static int ksgxd(void *p)
> {
> + long ret;
> +
> set_freezable();
>
> /*
> * Sanitize pages in order to recover from kexec(). The 2nd pass is
> * required for SECS pages, whose child pages blocked EREMOVE.
> */
> - __sgx_sanitize_pages(&sgx_dirty_page_list);
> - __sgx_sanitize_pages(&sgx_dirty_page_list);
> + ret = __sgx_sanitize_pages(&sgx_dirty_page_list);
> + if (ret == -ECANCELED)
> + /* kthread stopped */
> + return 0;
>
> - /* sanity check: */
> - WARN_ON(!list_empty(&sgx_dirty_page_list));
> + ret = __sgx_sanitize_pages(&sgx_dirty_page_list);
> + switch (ret) {
> + case 0:
> + /* success, no unsanitized pages */
> + break;
> +
> + case -ECANCELED:
> + /* kthread stopped */
> + return 0;
> +
> + default:
> + /*
> + * Never expected to happen in a working driver. If it happens
> + * the bug is expected to be in the sanitization process, but
> + * successfully sanitized pages are still valid and driver can
> + * be used and most importantly debugged without issues. To put
> + * short, the global state of kernel is not corrupted so no
> + * reason to do any more complicated rollback.
> + */
> + pr_err("%ld unsanitized pages\n", ret);
> + }
>
> while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
> if (try_to_freeze())

I think I am missing something here. A lot of logic is added here but I
do not see why it is necessary. ksgxd() knows via kthread_should_stop() if
the reclaimer was canceled. I am thus wondering, could the above not be
simplified to something similar to V1:

@@ -388,6 +393,8 @@ void sgx_reclaim_direct(void)

static int ksgxd(void *p)
{
+ unsigned long left_dirty;
+
set_freezable();

/*
@@ -395,10 +402,10 @@ static int ksgxd(void *p)
* required for SECS pages, whose child pages blocked EREMOVE.
*/
__sgx_sanitize_pages(&sgx_dirty_page_list);
- __sgx_sanitize_pages(&sgx_dirty_page_list);

- /* sanity check: */
- WARN_ON(!list_empty(&sgx_dirty_page_list));
+ left_dirty = __sgx_sanitize_pages(&sgx_dirty_page_list);
+ if (left_dirty && !kthread_should_stop())
+ pr_err("%lu unsanitized pages\n", left_dirty);

while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
if (try_to_freeze())

Reinette