From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D7AFC433E4 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:16:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C3720A8B for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:16:46 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1595956606; bh=FPl2g9z95O/j9qakMr1cGWs3U8+LQVfszTzNisgkf+I=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:List-ID:From; b=M9R/xLm4IrPUM+nHOauHxYc3k4/w5sjo6qX4lS0hK3xdfpxyZ2mWrhI3cS+H7+trU u7TW8xJxNh4u4KiC17SE/XO8WD5JWuqGNDqm1A/RqQ0K4ENkmirx2u8UEbB1plTwGE 9mbAv7AjThNYl3pTic7M0IsIT8w1f0Wh1R/Es7EE= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731865AbgG1RQp (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:16:45 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:37284 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731826AbgG1RQp (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:16:45 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-f44.google.com (mail-wm1-f44.google.com [209.85.128.44]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7FB9621883 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:16:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1595956604; bh=FPl2g9z95O/j9qakMr1cGWs3U8+LQVfszTzNisgkf+I=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:From; b=KPnMEN7iCF/xEO6QsEaxqYO2GzTsDtB7AMcRLK6l/UjK4oIn/F4JOGSXZUvYW44s1 jEFlyTCl3P3MEFUQeNfubHYCCc9zG74UqQBTODvN2LzJ4uy4XxTnjTnNBbEJ2yMVj4 PZjnIsRaELUQ0yXk6Deqthsuj/8xNzoMTptFK1So= Received: by mail-wm1-f44.google.com with SMTP id p14so283785wmg.1 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:16:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5325bmZkI2JT4kiYpF8SF6dW1dQJlk5q4ne1FDGz6egADJ1lpuAJ YvAne9jco9iFDVLKzZ8U7TB3Yw0CCuwOYCJjNq1Zqw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwu7N9kRRQbUR+VvYTCTVOAiGMuB+0+ywLntE8sEkStNuXDIJbnbwFAt4moiWmwHpSI57u5zJetZtfyZAKrhS8= X-Received: by 2002:a1c:de86:: with SMTP id v128mr4734767wmg.36.1595956603047; Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:16:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200728131050.24443-1-madvenka@linux.microsoft.com> In-Reply-To: From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:16:32 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] [RFC] Implement Trampoline File Descriptor To: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" Cc: David Laight , "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" , "linux-api@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" , "oleg@redhat.com" , "x86@kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: owner-linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:32 AM Madhavan T. Venkataraman wrote: > > Thanks. See inline.. > > On 7/28/20 10:13 AM, David Laight wrote: > > From: madvenka@linux.microsoft.com > >> Sent: 28 July 2020 14:11 > > ... > >> The kernel creates the trampoline mapping without any permissions. When > >> the trampoline is executed by user code, a page fault happens and the > >> kernel gets control. The kernel recognizes that this is a trampoline > >> invocation. It sets up the user registers based on the specified > >> register context, and/or pushes values on the user stack based on the > >> specified stack context, and sets the user PC to the requested target > >> PC. When the kernel returns, execution continues at the target PC. > >> So, the kernel does the work of the trampoline on behalf of the > >> application. > > Isn't the performance of this going to be horrid? > > It takes about the same amount of time as getpid(). So, it is > one quick trip into the kernel. I expect that applications will > typically not care about this extra overhead as long as > they are able to run. What did you test this on? A page fault on any modern x86_64 system is much, much, much, much slower than a syscall. --Andy