[PATCH] arm64: mte: Avoid setting PG_mte_tagged if no tags cleared or restored

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Oct 6 09:33:54 PDT 2022


Prior to commit 69e3b846d8a7 ("arm64: mte: Sync tags for pages where PTE
is untagged"), mte_sync_tags() was only called for pte_tagged() entries
(those mapped with PROT_MTE). Therefore mte_sync_tags() could safely use
test_and_set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags) without inadvertently
setting PG_mte_tagged on an untagged page.

The above commit was required as guests may enable MTE without any
control at the stage 2 mapping, nor a PROT_MTE mapping in the VMM.
However, the side-effect was that any page with a PTE that looked like
swap (or migration) was getting PG_mte_tagged set automatically. A
subsequent page copy (e.g. migration) copied the tags to the destination
page even if the tags were owned by KASAN.

This issue was masked by the page_kasan_tag_reset() call introduced in
commit e5b8d9218951 ("arm64: mte: reset the page tag in page->flags").
When this commit was reverted (20794545c146), KASAN started reporting
access faults because the overriding tags in a page did not match the
original page->flags (with CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS=y):

  BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in copy_page+0x10/0xd0 arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S:26
  Read at addr f5ff000017f2e000 by task syz-executor.1/2218
  Pointer tag: [f5], memory tag: [f2]

Move the PG_mte_tagged bit setting from mte_sync_tags() to the actual
place where tags are cleared (mte_sync_page_tags()) or restored
(mte_restore_tags()).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+c2c79c6d6eddc5262b77 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 69e3b846d8a7 ("arm64: mte: Sync tags for pages where PTE is untagged")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 5.14.x
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at gmail.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0000000000004387dc05e5888ae5@google.com/
---

This seems to work for me but reproducing the issue is not entirely
consistent. Once reviewed, we can merge it and then it will hit the
various CI systems and syzbot.

 arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 9 +++++++--
 arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
index aca88470fb69..7467217c1eaf 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
@@ -48,7 +48,12 @@ static void mte_sync_page_tags(struct page *page, pte_t old_pte,
 	if (!pte_is_tagged)
 		return;
 
-	mte_clear_page_tags(page_address(page));
+	/*
+	 * Test PG_mte_tagged again in case it was racing with another
+	 * set_pte_at().
+	 */
+	if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags))
+		mte_clear_page_tags(page_address(page));
 }
 
 void mte_sync_tags(pte_t old_pte, pte_t pte)
@@ -64,7 +69,7 @@ void mte_sync_tags(pte_t old_pte, pte_t pte)
 
 	/* if PG_mte_tagged is set, tags have already been initialised */
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++, page++) {
-		if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags))
+		if (!test_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags))
 			mte_sync_page_tags(page, old_pte, check_swap,
 					   pte_is_tagged);
 	}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c
index 4334dec93bd4..bed803d8e158 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c
@@ -53,7 +53,12 @@ bool mte_restore_tags(swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
 	if (!tags)
 		return false;
 
-	mte_restore_page_tags(page_address(page), tags);
+	/*
+	 * Test PG_mte_tagged again in case it was racing with another
+	 * set_pte_at().
+	 */
+	if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags))
+		mte_restore_page_tags(page_address(page), tags);
 
 	return true;
 }

base-commit: d2995249a2f72333a4ab4922ff3c42a76c023791



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