Re: [PATCH V3 3/5] x86/sgx: Obtain backing storage page with enclave mutex held

Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-05-13T14:44:24Z

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 02:50:59PM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Haitao reported encountering a WARN triggered by the ENCLS[ELDU]
> instruction faulting with a #GP.
>
> The WARN is encountered when the reclaimer evicts a range of
> pages from the enclave when the same pages are faulted back
> right away.
>
> The SGX backing storage is accessed on two paths: when there
> are insufficient free pages in the EPC the reclaimer works
> to move enclave pages to the backing storage and as enclaves
> access pages that have been moved to the backing storage
> they are retrieved from there as part of page fault handling.
>
> An oversubscribed SGX system will often run the reclaimer and
> page fault handler concurrently and needs to ensure that the
> backing store is accessed safely between the reclaimer and
> the page fault handler. This is not the case because the
> reclaimer accesses the backing store without the enclave mutex
> while the page fault handler accesses the backing store with
> the enclave mutex.
>
> Consider the scenario where a page is faulted while a page sharing
> a PCMD page with the faulted page is being reclaimed. The
> consequence is a race between the reclaimer and page fault
> handler, the reclaimer attempting to access a PCMD at the
> same time it is truncated by the page fault handler. This
> could result in lost PCMD data. Data may still be
> lost if the reclaimer wins the race, this is addressed in
> the following patch.
>
> The reclaimer accesses pages from the backing storage without
> holding the enclave mutex and runs the risk of concurrently
> accessing the backing storage with the page fault handler that
> does access the backing storage with the enclave mutex held.
>
> In the scenario below a PCMD page is truncated from the backing
> store after all its pages have been loaded in to the enclave
> at the same time the PCMD page is loaded from the backing store
> when one of its pages are reclaimed:
>
> sgx_reclaim_pages() { sgx_vma_fault() {
> ...
> mutex_lock(&encl->lock);
> ...
> __sgx_encl_eldu() {
> ...
> if (pcmd_page_empty) {
> /*
> * EPC page being reclaimed /*
> * shares a PCMD page with an * PCMD page truncated
> * enclave page that is being * while requested from
> * faulted in. * reclaimer.
> */ */
> sgx_encl_get_backing() <----------> sgx_encl_truncate_backing_page()
> }
> mutex_unlock(&encl->lock);
> } }
>
> In this scenario there is a race between the reclaimer and the page fault
> handler when the reclaimer attempts to get access to the same PCMD page
> that is being truncated. This could result in the reclaimer writing to
> the PCMD page that is then truncated, causing the PCMD data to be lost,
> or in a new PCMD page being allocated. The lost PCMD data may still occur
> after protecting the backing store access with the mutex - this is fixed
> in the next patch. By ensuring the backing store is accessed with the mutex
> held the enclave page state can be made accurate with the
> SGX_ENCL_PAGE_BEING_RECLAIMED flag accurately reflecting that a page
> is in the process of being reclaimed.
>
> Consistently protect the reclaimer's backing store access with the
> enclave's mutex to ensure that it can safely run concurrently with the
> page fault handler.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 1728ab54b4be ("x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer")
> Reported-by: Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
> Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
> Tested-by: Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
> ---
> Changes since V2:
> - Move description of "scenario a" to the new patch in series that marks
> page as dirty with enclave mutex held.
> - Add Haitao's "Tested-by" tag.
> - Add Jarkko's "Reviewed-by" and "Tested-by" tags.
>
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
> index e71df40a4f38..ab4ec54bbdd9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/main.c
> @@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ static void sgx_reclaimer_write(struct sgx_epc_page *epc_page,
> sgx_encl_ewb(epc_page, backing);
> encl_page->epc_page = NULL;
> encl->secs_child_cnt--;
> + sgx_encl_put_backing(backing);
>
> if (!encl->secs_child_cnt && test_bit(SGX_ENCL_INITIALIZED, &encl->flags)) {
> ret = sgx_encl_get_backing(encl, PFN_DOWN(encl->size),
> @@ -381,11 +382,14 @@ static void sgx_reclaim_pages(void)
> goto skip;
>
> page_index = PFN_DOWN(encl_page->desc - encl_page->encl->base);
> +
> + mutex_lock(&encl_page->encl->lock);
> ret = sgx_encl_get_backing(encl_page->encl, page_index, &backing[i]);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> + mutex_unlock(&encl_page->encl->lock);
> goto skip;
> + }
>
> - mutex_lock(&encl_page->encl->lock);
> encl_page->desc |= SGX_ENCL_PAGE_BEING_RECLAIMED;
> mutex_unlock(&encl_page->encl->lock);
> continue;
> @@ -413,7 +417,6 @@ static void sgx_reclaim_pages(void)
>
> encl_page = epc_page->owner;
> sgx_reclaimer_write(epc_page, &backing[i]);
> - sgx_encl_put_backing(&backing[i]);
>
> kref_put(&encl_page->encl->refcount, sgx_encl_release);
> epc_page->flags &= ~SGX_EPC_PAGE_RECLAIMER_TRACKED;
> --
> 2.25.1
>

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>

BR, Jarkko