On Fri, Nov 12, 2021, at 1:30 PM, Marc Orr wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 12:38 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 07:48:17PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote: >> > > Yes, but IMO inducing a fault in the guest because of _host_ bug is wrong. >> > >> > What do you suggest instead? >> >> Let userspace decide what is mapped shared and what is mapped private. The kernel >> and KVM provide the APIs/infrastructure to do the actual conversions in a thread-safe >> fashion and also to enforce the current state, but userspace is the control plane. >> >> It would require non-trivial changes in userspace if there are multiple processes >> accessing guest memory, e.g. Peter's networking daemon example, but it _is_ fully >> solvable. The exit to userspace means all three components (guest, kernel, >> and userspace) have full knowledge of what is shared and what is private. There >> is zero ambiguity: >> >> - if userspace accesses guest private memory, it gets SIGSEGV or whatever. >> - if kernel accesses guest private memory, it does BUG/panic/oops[*] >> - if guest accesses memory with the incorrect C/SHARED-bit, it gets killed. >> >> This is the direction KVM TDX support is headed, though it's obviously still a WIP. >> >> And ideally, to avoid implicit conversions at any level, hardware vendors' ABIs >> define that: >> >> a) All convertible memory, i.e. RAM, starts as private. >> b) Conversions between private and shared must be done via explicit hypercall. >> >> Without (b), userspace and thus KVM have to treat guest accesses to the incorrect >> type as implicit conversions. >> >> [*] Sadly, fully preventing kernel access to guest private is not possible with >> TDX, especially if the direct map is left intact. But maybe in the future >> TDX will signal a fault instead of poisoning memory and leaving a #MC mine. > > In this proposal, consider a guest driver instructing a device to DMA > write a 1 GB memory buffer. A well-behaved guest driver will ensure > that the entire 1 GB is marked shared. But what about a malicious or > buggy guest? Let's assume a bad guest driver instructs the device to > write guest private memory. > > So now, the virtual device, which might be implemented as some host > side process, needs to (1) check and lock all 4k constituent RMP > entries (so they're not converted to private while the DMA write is > taking palce), (2) write the 1 GB buffer, and (3) unlock all 4 k > constituent RMP entries? If I'm understanding this correctly, then the > synchronization will be prohibitively expensive. Let's consider a very very similar scenario: consider a guest driver setting up a 1 GB DMA buffer. The virtual device, implemented as host process, needs to (1) map (and thus lock *or* be prepared for faults) in 1GB / 4k pages of guest memory (so they're not *freed* while the DMA write is taking place), (2) write the buffer, and (3) unlock all the pages. Or it can lock them at setup time and keep them locked for a long time if that's appropriate. Sure, the locking is expensive, but it's nonnegotiable. The RMP issue is just a special case of the more general issue that the host MUST NOT ACCESS GUEST MEMORY AFTER IT'S FREED. --Andy
