[PATCH] arm64/mm: fold check for KFENCE into can_set_direct_map()

Barry Song 21cnbao at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 14:45:28 PDT 2022


On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 3:16 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Barry,
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 09:00:28PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 8:26 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
> > >
> > > KFENCE requires linear map to be mapped at page granularity, so that it
> > > is possible to protect/unprotect single pages, just like with
> > > rodata_full and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
> > >
> > > Instead of repating
> > >
> > >         can_set_direct_map() || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE)
> > >
> > > make can_set_direct_map() handle the KFENCE case.
> > >
> > > This also prevents potential false positives in kernel_page_present()
> > > that may return true for non-present page if CONFIG_KFENCE is enabled.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c      | 8 ++------
> > >  arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c | 8 +++++++-
> > >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > > index e7ad44585f40..c5065abec55a 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > > @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
> > >          */
> > >         BUILD_BUG_ON(pgd_index(direct_map_end - 1) == pgd_index(direct_map_end));
> > >
> > > -       if (can_set_direct_map() || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE))
> > > +       if (can_set_direct_map())
> > >                 flags |= NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
> > >
> > >         /*
> > > @@ -1547,11 +1547,7 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
> > >
> > >         VM_BUG_ON(!mhp_range_allowed(start, size, true));
> > >
> > > -       /*
> > > -        * KFENCE requires linear map to be mapped at page granularity, so that
> > > -        * it is possible to protect/unprotect single pages in the KFENCE pool.
> > > -        */
> > > -       if (can_set_direct_map() || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE))
> > > +       if (can_set_direct_map())
> > >                 flags |= NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;
> > >
> > >         __create_pgd_mapping(swapper_pg_dir, start, __phys_to_virt(start),
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> > > index 64e985eaa52d..d107c3d434e2 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> > > @@ -21,7 +21,13 @@ bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
> > >
> > >  bool can_set_direct_map(void)
> > >  {
> > > -       return rodata_full || debug_pagealloc_enabled();
> > > +       /*
> > > +        * rodata_full, DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and KFENCE require linear map to be
> > > +        * mapped at page granularity, so that it is possible to
> > > +        * protect/unprotect single pages.
> > > +        */
> > > +       return rodata_full || debug_pagealloc_enabled() ||
> > > +               IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE);
> >
> > might be irrelevant, i wonder if rodata_full is too strict as
> > rodata_full is almost
> > always true since RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED is default true.
>
> Not sure I follow. If either of these conditions is true the linear map
> consists of base pages and it's possible to change attributes of each base
> page. Whenever linear map contains block mapping, page attributes cannot be
> modified.

Hi Mike,
My question is irrelevant with your patch. It is more of another
topic.  i understand
we need to protect read-only data of kernel, but it seems overly
defensive. We are
getting the whole linear mapping PTE-mapped.

/sys/kernel/debug# cat kernel_page_tables
0x0000000000000000-0xffff608000000000   17179705856G PGD
0xffff608000000000-0xffff60bf40000000         253G PUD
0xffff60bf40000000-0xffff60bf40200000           2M PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60bf40200000-0xffff60bf41800000          22M PMD       ro NX SHD
AF NG     BLK UXN    MEM/NORMAL
0xffff60bf41800000-0xffff60bf41890000         576K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL
0xffff60bf41890000-0xffff60c04022e000     4171384K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c04022e000-0xffff60c04022f000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c04022f000-0xffff60c042a3c000       41012K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c042a3c000-0xffff60c042a3d000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c042a3d000-0xffff60c043431000       10192K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c043431000-0xffff60c043432000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c043432000-0xffff60c0448e8000       21208K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c0448e8000-0xffff60c0448e9000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c0448e9000-0xffff60c0448ed000          16K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c0448ed000-0xffff60c0448ee000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c0448ee000-0xffff60c044a6b000        1524K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c044a6b000-0xffff60c044a6c000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c044a6c000-0xffff60c044a74000          32K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c044a74000-0xffff60c044a75000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c044a75000-0xffff60c044aaa000         212K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c044aaa000-0xffff60c044aab000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c044aab000-0xffff60c053000000      234836K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c053000000-0xffff60c080000000         720M PMD
0xffff60c080000000-0xffff610000000000         254G PUD
0xffff610000000000-0xffff800000000000          31T PGD
---[ Linear Mapping end ]---


For example, for the below,
0xffff60c04022e000-0xffff60c04022f000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c04022f000-0xffff60c042a3c000       41012K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED

41012K PTE is really big, don't we have a chance to make it
block/cont-pte mapped by
some alignment tricks such as,

0xffff60c04022e000-0xffff60c04022f000           4K PTE       ro NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c04022e000-0xffff60c040230000          4K PTE       RW NX SHD
AF NG         UXN    MEM/NORMAL-TAGGED
0xffff60c040230000-0xffff60c040400000-         4K PTE       CONT..
0xffff60c040400000-                                           2MB PMD.....

>
> And rodata_full might be false because
> CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED was disabled at build time.
>
> > >  }
> > >
> > >  static int change_page_range(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, void *data)
> > > --
> > > 2.35.3
> > >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Barry
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Mike.

Thanks
Barry



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