Re: [RFC PATCH 04/10] x86/fpu: eager switch PKRU state

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> On Sep 12, 2018, at 7:18 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/09/2018 15:33, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> While most of a task's FPU state is only needed in user space,
>> the protection keys need to be in place immediately after a
>> context switch.
>> 
>> The reason is that any accesses to userspace memory while running
>> in kernel mode also need to abide by the memory permissions
>> specified in the protection keys.
>> 
>> The pkru info is put in its own cache line in the fpu struct because
>> that cache line is accessed anyway at context switch time, and the
>> location of the pkru info in the xsave buffer changes depending on
>> what other FPU registers are in use if the CPU uses compressed xsave
>> state (on by default).
>> 
>> The initial state of pkru is zeroed out automatically by fpstate_init.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> [bigeasy: load PKRU state only if we also load FPU content]
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h | 11 +++++++++--
>> arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h    | 10 ++++++++++
>> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h      |  6 +-----
>> arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c                 | 14 ++++++++++++++
>> 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
>> index 16c4077ffc945..57bd1576e033d 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h
>> @@ -573,8 +573,15 @@ static inline void switch_fpu_finish(struct fpu *new_fpu, int cpu)
>>    bool preload = static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FPU) &&
>>               new_fpu->initialized;
>> 
>> -    if (preload)
>> -        __fpregs_load_activate(new_fpu, cpu);
>> +    if (!preload)
>> +        return;
>> +
>> +    __fpregs_load_activate(new_fpu, cpu);
>> +    /* Protection keys need to be in place right at context switch time. */
>> +    if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_OSPKE)) {
>> +        if (new_fpu->pkru != __read_pkru())
>> +            __write_pkru(new_fpu->pkru);
>> +    }
>> }
>> 
>> /*
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
>> index 202c53918ecfa..6fa58d37938d2 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h
>> @@ -293,6 +293,16 @@ struct fpu {
>>     */
>>    unsigned int            last_cpu;
>> 
>> +    /*
>> +     * Protection key bits. These also live inside fpu.state.xsave,
>> +     * but the location varies if the CPU uses the compressed format
>> +     * for XSAVE(OPT).
>> +     *
>> +     * The protection key needs to be switched out immediately at context
>> +     * switch time, so it is in place for things like copy_to_user.
>> +     */
>> +    unsigned int            pkru;
>> +
>>    /*
>>     * @initialized:
>>     *
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> index 690c0307afed0..cc36f91011ad7 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> @@ -132,11 +132,7 @@ static inline u32 read_pkru(void)
>>    return 0;
>> }
>> 
>> -static inline void write_pkru(u32 pkru)
>> -{
>> -    if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_OSPKE))
>> -        __write_pkru(pkru);
>> -}
>> +extern void write_pkru(u32 pkru);
>> 
>> static inline int pte_young(pte_t pte)
>> {
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c b/arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c
>> index 6e98e0a7c9231..c7a7b6bd64009 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c
>> @@ -18,6 +18,20 @@
>> 
>> #include <asm/cpufeature.h>             /* boot_cpu_has, ...            */
>> #include <asm/mmu_context.h>            /* vma_pkey()                   */
>> +#include <asm/fpu/internal.h>
>> +
>> +void write_pkru(u32 pkru)
>> +{
>> +    if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_OSPKE))
>> +        return;
>> +
>> +    current->thread.fpu.pkru = pkru;
>> +
>> +    __fpregs_changes_begin();
>> +    __fpregs_load_activate(&current->thread.fpu, smp_processor_id());
>> +    __write_pkru(pkru);
>> +    __fpregs_changes_end();
>> +}
>> 
>> int __execute_only_pkey(struct mm_struct *mm)
>> {
>> 
> 
> I think you can go a step further and exclude PKRU state from
> copy_kernel_to_fpregs altogether; you just use RDPKRU/WRPKRU.  This also
> means you don't need to call __fpregs_* functions in write_pkru.
> 
> 

Except that the signal ABI has PKRU in the xstate. So we’d need to fake it or do something special for signals.



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