On 01/12/2017 05:22 PM, Khalid Aziz wrote:
On 01/12/2017 10:53 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
On 01/12/2017 08:50 AM, Khalid Aziz wrote:
2. Any shared page that has ADI protection enabled on it, must stay ADI
protected across all processes sharing it.
Is that true?
What happens if a page with ADI tags set is accessed via a PTE without
the ADI enablement bit set?
ADI protection applies across all processes in terms of all of them
must use the same tag to access the shared memory, but if a process
accesses a shared page with TTE.mcde bit cleared, access will be granted.
COW creates an intersection of the two. It creates a new copy of the
shared data. It is a new data page and hence the process creating it
must be the one responsible for enabling ADI protection on it.
Do you mean that the application must be responsible? Or the kernel
running in the context of the new process must be responsible?
It is also a copy of what was ADI protected data, so should it
inherit the protection instead?
I think the COW'd copy must inherit the VMA bit, the PTE bits, and the
tags on the cachelines.
I misspoke earlier. I had misinterpreted the results of test I ran.
Changing the tag on shared memory is allowed by memory controller. The
requirement is every one sharing the page must switch to the new tag or
else they get SIGSEGV.
I asked this in the last mail, but I guess I'll ask it again. Please
answer this directly.
If we require that everyone coordinate their tags on the backing
physical memory, and we allow a lower-privileged program to access the
same data as a more-privileged one, then the lower-privilege app can
cause arbitrary crashes in the privileged application.
For instance, say sudo mmap()'s /etc/passwd and uses ADI tags to protect
the mapping. Couldn't any other app in the system prevent sudo from
working?
How can we *EVER* allow tags to be set on non-writable mappings?
I don't think you can write a tag to memory if you don't have write
access in the TTE. Writing a tag requires a store instruction, and if
the machine is at all sane, this will fault if you don't have write access.
Rob
I understand your quetion better now. That is a very valid concern.
Using ADI tags to prevent an unauthorized process from just reading
data in memory, say an in-memory copy of database, is one of the use
cases for ADI. This means there is a reasonable case to allow enabling
ADI and setting tags even on non-writable mappings. On the other hand,
if an unauthorized process manages to map the right memory pages in
its address space, it can read them any way by not setting TTE.mcd.
Userspace app can set tag on any memory it has mapped in without
requiring assistance from kernel. Can this problem be solved by not
allowing setting TTE.mcd on non-writable mappings? Doesn't the same
problem occur on writable mappings? If a privileged process mmap()'s a
writable file with MAP_SHARED, enables ADI and sets tag on the mmap'd
memory region, then another lower privilege process mmap's the same
file writable (assuming file permissions allow it to), enables ADI and
sets a different tag on it, the privileged process would get SIGSEGV
when it tries to access the mmap'd file. Right?
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