This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm/page_table_check: support userfault wr-protect entries
to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-page_table_check-support-userfault-wr-protect-ent.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b50eafda05c944a76c6277969aea5a6e09d595cd
Author: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 17 17:25:49 2024 -0400
mm/page_table_check: support userfault wr-protect entries
[ Upstream commit 8430557fc584657559bfbd5150b6ae1bb90f35a0 ]
Allow page_table_check hooks to check over userfaultfd wr-protect criteria
upon pgtable updates. The rule is no co-existance allowed for any
writable flag against userfault wr-protect flag.
This should be better than c2da319c2e, where we used to only sanitize such
issues during a pgtable walk, but when hitting such issue we don't have a
good chance to know where does that writable bit came from [1], so that
even the pgtable walk exposes a kernel bug (which is still helpful on
triaging) but not easy to track and debug.
Now we switch to track the source. It's much easier too with the recent
introduction of page table check.
There are some limitations with using the page table check here for
userfaultfd wr-protect purpose:
- It is only enabled with explicit enablement of page table check configs
and/or boot parameters, but should be good enough to track at least
syzbot issues, as syzbot should enable PAGE_TABLE_CHECK[_ENFORCED] for
x86 [1]. We used to have DEBUG_VM but it's now off for most distros,
while distros also normally not enable PAGE_TABLE_CHECK[_ENFORCED], which
is similar.
- It conditionally works with the ptep_modify_prot API. It will be
bypassed when e.g. XEN PV is enabled, however still work for most of the
rest scenarios, which should be the common cases so should be good
enough.
- Hugetlb check is a bit hairy, as the page table check cannot identify
hugetlb pte or normal pte via trapping at set_pte_at(), because of the
current design where hugetlb maps every layers to pte_t... For example,
the default set_huge_pte_at() can invoke set_pte_at() directly and lose
the hugetlb context, treating it the same as a normal pte_t. So far it's
fine because we have huge_pte_uffd_wp() always equals to pte_uffd_wp() as
long as supported (x86 only). It'll be a bigger problem when we'll
define _PAGE_UFFD_WP differently at various pgtable levels, because then
one huge_pte_uffd_wp() per-arch will stop making sense first.. as of now
we can leave this for later too.
This patch also removes commit c2da319c2e altogether, as we have something
better now.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000dce0530615c89210@xxxxxxxxxx/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240417212549.2766883-1-peterx@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst
index c12838ce6b8de..c59f22eb6a0f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Page table check performs extra verifications at the time when new pages become
accessible from the userspace by getting their page table entries (PTEs PMDs
etc.) added into the table.
-In case of detected corruption, the kernel is crashed. There is a small
+In case of most detected corruption, the kernel is crashed. There is a small
performance and memory overhead associated with the page table check. Therefore,
it is disabled by default, but can be optionally enabled on systems where the
extra hardening outweighs the performance costs. Also, because page table check
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ is synchronous, it can help with debugging double map memory corruption issues,
by crashing kernel at the time wrong mapping occurs instead of later which is
often the case with memory corruptions bugs.
+It can also be used to do page table entry checks over various flags, dump
+warnings when illegal combinations of entry flags are detected. Currently,
+userfaultfd is the only user of such to sanity check wr-protect bit against
+any writable flags. Illegal flag combinations will not directly cause data
+corruption in this case immediately, but that will cause read-only data to
+be writable, leading to corrupt when the page content is later modified.
+
Double mapping detection logic
==============================
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index e02b179ec6598..d03fe4fb41f43 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -387,23 +387,7 @@ static inline pte_t pte_wrprotect(pte_t pte)
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP
static inline int pte_uffd_wp(pte_t pte)
{
- bool wp = pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_UFFD_WP;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
- /*
- * Having write bit for wr-protect-marked present ptes is fatal,
- * because it means the uffd-wp bit will be ignored and write will
- * just go through.
- *
- * Use any chance of pgtable walking to verify this (e.g., when
- * page swapped out or being migrated for all purposes). It means
- * something is already wrong. Tell the admin even before the
- * process crashes. We also nail it with wrong pgtable setup.
- */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(wp && pte_write(pte));
-#endif
-
- return wp;
+ return pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_UFFD_WP;
}
static inline pte_t pte_mkuffd_wp(pte_t pte)
diff --git a/mm/page_table_check.c b/mm/page_table_check.c
index 6363f93a47c69..509c6ef8de400 100644
--- a/mm/page_table_check.c
+++ b/mm/page_table_check.c
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
#include <linux/kstrtox.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/page_table_check.h>
+#include <linux/swap.h>
+#include <linux/swapops.h>
#undef pr_fmt
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "page_table_check: " fmt
@@ -191,6 +193,22 @@ void __page_table_check_pud_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t pud)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_table_check_pud_clear);
+/* Whether the swap entry cached writable information */
+static inline bool swap_cached_writable(swp_entry_t entry)
+{
+ return is_writable_device_exclusive_entry(entry) ||
+ is_writable_device_private_entry(entry) ||
+ is_writable_migration_entry(entry);
+}
+
+static inline void page_table_check_pte_flags(pte_t pte)
+{
+ if (pte_present(pte) && pte_uffd_wp(pte))
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(pte_write(pte));
+ else if (is_swap_pte(pte) && pte_swp_uffd_wp(pte))
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(swap_cached_writable(pte_to_swp_entry(pte)));
+}
+
void __page_table_check_ptes_set(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte,
unsigned int nr)
{
@@ -199,6 +217,8 @@ void __page_table_check_ptes_set(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte,
if (&init_mm == mm)
return;
+ page_table_check_pte_flags(pte);
+
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
__page_table_check_pte_clear(mm, ptep_get(ptep + i));
if (pte_user_accessible_page(pte))
@@ -206,11 +226,21 @@ void __page_table_check_ptes_set(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_table_check_ptes_set);
+static inline void page_table_check_pmd_flags(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+ if (pmd_present(pmd) && pmd_uffd_wp(pmd))
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(pmd_write(pmd));
+ else if (is_swap_pmd(pmd) && pmd_swp_uffd_wp(pmd))
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(swap_cached_writable(pmd_to_swp_entry(pmd)));
+}
+
void __page_table_check_pmd_set(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd)
{
if (&init_mm == mm)
return;
+ page_table_check_pmd_flags(pmd);
+
__page_table_check_pmd_clear(mm, *pmdp);
if (pmd_user_accessible_page(pmd)) {
page_table_check_set(pmd_pfn(pmd), PMD_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT,
