x86/mm/pti: Clear Global bit more aggressively
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 2 Aug 2018 22:58:25 +0000 (15:58 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sun, 5 Aug 2018 20:21:02 +0000 (22:21 +0200)
commiteac7073aa69aa1cac819aa712146284f53f642b1
tree720ba0bcdec39d612cc8cc29eb48d9d8798130be
parent1ffaddd029c867d134a1dde39f540dcc8c52e274
x86/mm/pti: Clear Global bit more aggressively

The kernel image starts out with the Global bit set across the entire
kernel image.  The bit is cleared with set_memory_nonglobal() in the
configurations with PCIDs where the performance benefits of the Global bit
are not needed.

However, this is fragile.  It means that we are stuck opting *out* of the
less-secure (Global bit set) configuration, which seems backwards.  Let's
start more secure (Global bit clear) and then let things opt back in if
they want performance, or are truly mapping common data between kernel and
userspace.

This fixes a bug.  Before this patch, there are areas that are unmapped
from the user page tables (like like everything above 0xffffffff82600000 in
the example below).  These have the hallmark of being a wrong Global area:
they are not identical in the 'current_kernel' and 'current_user' page
table dumps.  They are also read-write, which means they're much more
likely to contain secrets.

Before this patch:

current_kernel:---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
current_kernel-0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000          16M                               pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81e00000          14M     ro         PSE     GLB x  pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e11000          68K     ro                 GLB x  pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff81e11000-0xffffffff82000000        1980K     RW                 GLB NX pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82600000           6M     ro         PSE     GLB NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff82600000-0xffffffff82c00000           6M     RW         PSE     GLB NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff82c00000-0xffffffff82e00000           2M     RW                 GLB NX pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffff83200000           4M     RW         PSE     GLB NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff83200000-0xffffffffa0000000         462M                               pmd

 current_user:---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
 current_user-0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000          16M                               pmd
 current_user-0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81e00000          14M     ro         PSE     GLB x  pmd
 current_user-0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e11000          68K     ro                 GLB x  pte
 current_user-0xffffffff81e11000-0xffffffff82000000        1980K     RW                 GLB NX pte
 current_user-0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82600000           6M     ro         PSE     GLB NX pmd
 current_user-0xffffffff82600000-0xffffffffa0000000         474M                               pmd

After this patch:

current_kernel:---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
current_kernel-0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000          16M                               pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81e00000          14M     ro         PSE     GLB x  pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e11000          68K     ro                 GLB x  pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff81e11000-0xffffffff82000000        1980K     RW                     NX pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82600000           6M     ro         PSE     GLB NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff82600000-0xffffffff82c00000           6M     RW         PSE         NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff82c00000-0xffffffff82e00000           2M     RW                     NX pte
current_kernel-0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffff83200000           4M     RW         PSE         NX pmd
current_kernel-0xffffffff83200000-0xffffffffa0000000         462M                               pmd

  current_user:---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
  current_user-0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000          16M                               pmd
  current_user-0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81e00000          14M     ro         PSE     GLB x  pmd
  current_user-0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e11000          68K     ro                 GLB x  pte
  current_user-0xffffffff81e11000-0xffffffff82000000        1980K     RW                     NX pte
  current_user-0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82600000           6M     ro         PSE     GLB NX pmd
  current_user-0xffffffff82600000-0xffffffffa0000000         474M                               pmd

Fixes: 0f561fce4d69 ("x86/pti: Enable global pages for shared areas")
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: aarcange@redhat.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802225825.A100C071@viggo.jf.intel.com
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
arch/x86/mm/pti.c