[PATCH v5 12/17] KVM: arm64: Save protected-nVHE (pKVM) hyp stacktrace

Kalesh Singh kaleshsingh at google.com
Fri Jul 22 10:28:19 PDT 2022


On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 8:33 AM Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev> wrote:
>
> Hi Kalesh,
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 10:57:23PM -0700, Kalesh Singh wrote:
> > In protected nVHE mode, the host cannot access private owned hypervisor
> > memory. Also the hypervisor aims to remains simple to reduce the attack
> > surface and does not provide any printk support.
> >
> > For the above reasons, the approach taken to provide hypervisor stacktraces
> > in protected mode is:
> >    1) Unwind and save the hyp stack addresses in EL2 to a shared buffer
> >       with the host (done in this patch).
> >    2) Delegate the dumping and symbolization of the addresses to the
> >       host in EL1 (later patch in the series).
> >
> > On hyp_panic(), the hypervisor prepares the stacktrace before returning to
> > the host.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh at google.com>
> > ---
>
> Tried reworking this a bit and here is what I arrived at, WDYT?
> Untested, of course :)

Hi Oliver,

I think what you have is a lot cleaner. :) I'll incorporate it for the
next spin.

Thanks,
Kalesh

>
> --
> Thanks,
> Oliver
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/nvhe.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/nvhe.h
> index 3078501f8e22..05d7e03e0a8c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/nvhe.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace/nvhe.h
> @@ -21,6 +21,23 @@
>
>  #include <asm/stacktrace/common.h>
>
> +/*
> + * kvm_nvhe_unwind_init - Start an unwind from the given nVHE HYP fp and pc
> + *
> + * @state : unwind_state to initialize
> + * @fp    : frame pointer at which to start the unwinding.
> + * @pc    : program counter at which to start the unwinding.
> + */
> +static inline void kvm_nvhe_unwind_init(struct unwind_state *state,
> +                                       unsigned long fp,
> +                                       unsigned long pc)
> +{
> +       unwind_init_common(state, NULL);
> +
> +       state->fp = fp;
> +       state->pc = pc;
> +}
> +
>  static inline bool on_accessible_stack(const struct task_struct *tsk,
>                                        unsigned long sp, unsigned long size,
>                                        struct stack_info *info)
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/stacktrace.c
> index 96c8b93320eb..644276fb02af 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/stacktrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/stacktrace.c
> @@ -11,4 +11,69 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long [OVERFLOW_STACK_SIZE/sizeof(long)], overflow_stack)
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PROTECTED_NVHE_STACKTRACE
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long [NVHE_STACKTRACE_SIZE/sizeof(long)], pkvm_stacktrace);
> +
> +/*
> + * pkvm_save_backtrace_entry - Saves a protected nVHE HYP stacktrace entry
> + *
> + * @arg    : the index of the entry in the stacktrace buffer
> + * @where  : the program counter corresponding to the stack frame
> + *
> + * Save the return address of a stack frame to the shared stacktrace buffer.
> + * The host can access this shared buffer from EL1 to dump the backtrace.
> + */
> +static bool pkvm_save_backtrace_entry(void *arg, unsigned long where)
> +{
> +       unsigned long *stacktrace = this_cpu_ptr(pkvm_stacktrace);
> +       int *idx = (int *)arg;
> +
> +       /*
> +        * Need 2 free slots: 1 for current entry and 1 for the
> +        * delimiter.
> +        */
> +       if (*idx > ARRAY_SIZE(pkvm_stacktrace) - 2)
> +               return false;
> +
> +       stacktrace[*idx] = where;
> +       stacktrace[++*idx] = 0UL;
> +
> +       return true;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * pkvm_save_backtrace - Saves the protected nVHE HYP stacktrace
> + *
> + * @fp : frame pointer at which to start the unwinding.
> + * @pc : program counter at which to start the unwinding.
> + *
> + * Save the unwinded stack addresses to the shared stacktrace buffer.
> + * The host can access this shared buffer from EL1 to dump the backtrace.
> + */
> +static void pkvm_save_backtrace(unsigned long fp, unsigned long pc)
> +{
> +       struct unwind_state state;
> +       int idx = 0;
> +
> +       kvm_nvhe_unwind_init(&state, fp, pc);
> +
> +       unwind(&state, pkvm_save_backtrace_entry, &idx);
> +}
> +#else /* !CONFIG_PROTECTED_NVHE_STACKTRACE */
> +static void pkvm_save_backtrace(unsigned long fp, unsigned long pc)
> +{
> +}
>  #endif /* CONFIG_PROTECTED_NVHE_STACKTRACE */
> +
> +/*
> + * kvm_nvhe_prepare_backtrace - prepare to dump the nVHE backtrace
> + *
> + * @fp : frame pointer at which to start the unwinding.
> + * @pc : program counter at which to start the unwinding.
> + *
> + * Saves the information needed by the host to dump the nVHE hypervisor
> + * backtrace.
> + */
> +void kvm_nvhe_prepare_backtrace(unsigned long fp, unsigned long pc)
> +{
> +       if (is_protected_kvm_enabled())
> +               pkvm_save_backtrace(fp, pc);
> +}
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c
> index 6db801db8f27..64e13445d0d9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_host_data, kvm_host_data);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_cpu_context, kvm_hyp_ctxt);
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, kvm_hyp_vector);
>
> +extern void kvm_nvhe_prepare_backtrace(unsigned long fp, unsigned long pc);
> +
>  static void __activate_traps(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>         u64 val;
> @@ -375,6 +377,10 @@ asmlinkage void __noreturn hyp_panic(void)
>                 __sysreg_restore_state_nvhe(host_ctxt);
>         }
>
> +       /* Prepare to dump kvm nvhe hyp stacktrace */
> +       kvm_nvhe_prepare_backtrace((unsigned long)__builtin_frame_address(0),
> +                                  _THIS_IP_);
> +
>         __hyp_do_panic(host_ctxt, spsr, elr, par);
>         unreachable();
>  }



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