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Re: [PATCH v4 15/29] x86/mm/64: Enable vmapped stacks

From Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4 15/29] x86/mm/64: Enable vmapped stacks
Date 2016-06-27 17:20 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
>> This allows x86_64 kernels to enable vmapped stacks.  There are a
>> couple of interesting bits.
>>
>> First, x86 lazily faults in top-level paging entries for the vmalloc
>> area.  This won't work if we get a page fault while trying to access
>> the stack: the CPU will promote it to a double-fault and we'll die.
>> To avoid this problem, probe the new stack when switching stacks and
>> forcibly populate the pgd entry for the stack when switching mms.
>>
>> Second, once we have guard pages around the stack, we'll want to
>> detect and handle stack overflow.
>>
>> I didn't enable it on x86_32.  We'd need to rework the double-fault
>> code a bit and I'm concerned about running out of vmalloc virtual
>> addresses under some workloads.
>>
>> This patch, by itself, will behave somewhat erratically when the
>> stack overflows while RSP is still more than a few tens of bytes
>> above the bottom of the stack.  Specifically, we'll get #PF and make
>> it to no_context and an oops without triggering a double-fault, and
>> no_context doesn't know about stack overflows.  The next patch will
>> improve that case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/Kconfig                 |  1 +
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  arch/x86/kernel/traps.c          | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/x86/mm/tlb.c                | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> index d9a94da0c29f..afdcf96ef109 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ config X86
>>         select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
>>         select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>>         select HAVE_EBPF_JIT                    if X86_64
>> +       select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK             if X86_64
>>         select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
>>         select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>>         select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
>> index 8f321a1b03a1..14e4b20f0aaf 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
>> @@ -8,6 +8,28 @@ struct tss_struct;
>>  void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p,
>>                       struct tss_struct *tss);
>>
>> +/* This runs runs on the previous thread's stack. */
>> +static inline void prepare_switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
>> +                                    struct task_struct *next)
>> +{
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
>> +       /*
>> +        * If we switch to a stack that has a top-level paging entry
>> +        * that is not present in the current mm, the resulting #PF will
>> +        * will be promoted to a double-fault and we'll panic.  Probe
>> +        * the new stack now so that vmalloc_fault can fix up the page
>> +        * tables if needed.  This can only happen if we use a stack
>> +        * in vmap space.
>> +        *
>> +        * We assume that the stack is aligned so that it never spans
>> +        * more than one top-level paging entry.
>> +        *
>> +        * To minimize cache pollution, just follow the stack pointer.
>> +        */
>> +       READ_ONCE(*(unsigned char *)next->thread.sp);
>> +#endif
>> +}
>> +
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
>> @@ -39,6 +61,8 @@ do {                                                                  \
>>          */                                                             \
>>         unsigned long ebx, ecx, edx, esi, edi;                          \
>>                                                                         \
>> +       prepare_switch_to(prev, next);                                  \
>> +                                                                       \
>>         asm volatile("pushl %%ebp\n\t"          /* save    EBP   */     \
>>                      "movl %%esp,%[prev_sp]\n\t"        /* save    ESP   */ \
>>                      "movl %[next_sp],%%esp\n\t"        /* restore ESP   */ \
>> @@ -103,7 +127,9 @@ do {                                                                        \
>>   * clean in kernel mode, with the possible exception of IOPL.  Kernel IOPL
>>   * has no effect.
>>   */
>> -#define switch_to(prev, next, last) \
>> +#define switch_to(prev, next, last)                                      \
>> +       prepare_switch_to(prev, next);                                    \
>> +                                                                         \
>>         asm volatile(SAVE_CONTEXT                                         \
>>              "movq %%rsp,%P[threadrsp](%[prev])\n\t" /* save RSP */       \
>>              "movq %P[threadrsp](%[next]),%%rsp\n\t" /* restore RSP */    \
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
>> index 00f03d82e69a..9cb7ea781176 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
>> @@ -292,12 +292,30 @@ DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_NP,     SIGBUS,  "segment not present", segment_not_present)
>>  DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_SS,     SIGBUS,  "stack segment",            stack_segment)
>>  DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_AC,     SIGBUS,  "alignment check",          alignment_check)
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
>> +static void __noreturn handle_stack_overflow(const char *message,
>> +                                            struct pt_regs *regs,
>> +                                            unsigned long fault_address)
>> +{
>> +       printk(KERN_EMERG "BUG: stack guard page was hit at %p (stack is %p..%p)\n",
>> +                (void *)fault_address, current->stack,
>> +                (char *)current->stack + THREAD_SIZE - 1);
>> +       die(message, regs, 0);
>> +
>> +       /* Be absolutely certain we don't return. */
>> +       panic(message);
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>>  /* Runs on IST stack */
>>  dotraplinkage void do_double_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
>>  {
>>         static const char str[] = "double fault";
>>         struct task_struct *tsk = current;
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
>> +       unsigned long cr2;
>> +#endif
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64
>>         extern unsigned char native_irq_return_iret[];
>> @@ -332,6 +350,20 @@ dotraplinkage void do_double_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
>>         tsk->thread.error_code = error_code;
>>         tsk->thread.trap_nr = X86_TRAP_DF;
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
>> +       /*
>> +        * If we overflow the stack into a guard page, the CPU will fail
>> +        * to deliver #PF and will send #DF instead.  CR2 will contain
>> +        * the linear address of the second fault, which will be in the
>> +        * guard page below the bottom of the stack.
>> +        */
>> +       cr2 = read_cr2();
>> +       if ((unsigned long)tsk->stack - 1 - cr2 < PAGE_SIZE)
>> +               handle_stack_overflow(
>> +                       "kernel stack overflow (double-fault)",
>> +                       regs, cr2);
>> +#endif
>
> Is there any other way to tell if this was from a page fault?  If it
> wasn't a page fault then CR2 is undefined.

I guess it doesn't really matter, since the fault is fatal either way.
The error message might be incorrect though.

--
Brian Gerst

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  [PATCH v4 24/29] x86/entry: Get rid of pt_regs_to_thread_info() Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-06-27 00:00 +0200
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  [PATCH v4 12/29] x86/dumpstack: When dumping stack bytes due to OOPS, start with regs->sp Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-06-27 00:00 +0200
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  [PATCH v4 14/29] x86/dumpstack/64: Handle faults when printing the "Stack:" part of an OOPS Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-06-27 00:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 26/29] sched: Allow putting thread_info into task_struct Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-06-27 00:00 +0200
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  [PATCH v4 22/29] x86/asm: Move 'status' from struct thread_info to struct thread_struct Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-06-27 00:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 22/29] x86/asm: Move 'status' from struct thread_info  to struct thread_struct Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 02:00 +0200
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    Re: [PATCH v4 15/29] x86/mm/64: Enable vmapped stacks Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 17:10 +0200
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            Re: [PATCH v4 15/29] x86/mm/64: Enable vmapped stacks Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 18:20 +0200
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                Re: [PATCH v4 15/29] x86/mm/64: Enable vmapped stacks Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 19:10 +0200
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          Re: [PATCH v4 01/29] bluetooth: Switch SMP to crypto_cipher_encrypt_one() Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-28 00:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v4 01/29] bluetooth: Switch SMP to crypto_cipher_encrypt_one() Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-07-04 20:00 +0200
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