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=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 A5B46CA9EA0 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C85222C3 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2410389AbfJRNhD (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:37:03 -0400 Received: from [217.140.110.172] ([217.140.110.172]:39522 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728150AbfJRNhC (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:37:02 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62E03BB; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 06:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arm.com (usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBC903F6C4; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 06:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:36:34 +0100 From: Dave Martin To: Mark Rutland Cc: Paul Elliott , Peter Zijlstra , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Yu-cheng Yu , Amit Kachhap , Vincenzo Frascino , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Eugene Syromiatnikov , Szabolcs Nagy , "H.J. Lu" , Andrew Jones , Kees Cook , Arnd Bergmann , Jann Horn , Richard Henderson , Kristina =?utf-8?Q?Mart=C5=A1enko?= , Mark Brown , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Florian Weimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sudakshina Das Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] arm64: Basic Branch Target Identification support Message-ID: <20191018133628.GC27757@arm.com> References: <1570733080-21015-1-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com> <1570733080-21015-6-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com> <20191011151028.GE33537@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> <4e09ca54-f353-9448-64ed-4ba1e38c6ebc@linaro.org> <20191011153225.GL27757@arm.com> <20191011154043.GG33537@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> <20191011154444.GN27757@arm.com> <20191011160113.GO27757@arm.com> <20191011164159.GP27757@arm.com> <20191018110551.GB27759@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20191018110551.GB27759@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 12:05:52PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 05:42:00PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 05:01:13PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 04:44:45PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 04:40:43PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 04:32:26PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: [...] > > > > > > Either way, I feel we should do this: any function in a PROT_BTI page > > > > > > should have a suitable landing pad. There's no reason I can see why > > > > > > a protection given to any other callback function should be omitted > > > > > > for a signal handler. > > > > > > > > > > > > Note, if the signal handler isn't in a PROT_BTI page then overriding > > > > > > BTYPE here will not trigger a Branch Target exception. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm happy to drop a brief comment into the code also, once we're > > > > > > agreed on what the code should be doing. > > > > > > > > > > So long as there's a comment as to why, I have no strong feelings here. > > > > > :) > > > > > > > > OK, I think it's worth a brief comment in the code either way, so I'll > > > > add something. > > > > > > Hmm, come to think of it we do need special logic for a particular case > > > here: > > > > > > If we are delivering a SIGILL here and the SIGILL handler was registered > > > with SA_NODEFER then we will get into a spin, repeatedly delivering > > > the BTI-triggered SIGILL to the same (bad) entry point. > > > > > > Without SA_NODEFER, the SIGILL becomes fatal, which is the desired > > > behaviour, but we'll need to catch this recursion explicitly. > > > > > > > > > It's similar to the special force_sigsegv() case in > > > linux/kernel/signal.c... > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > On second thought, maybe we don't need to do anything special. > > > > A SIGSEGV handler registered with (SA_NODEFER & ~SA_RESETHAND) and that > > dereferences a duff address would spin similarly. > > > > This SIGILL case doesn't really seem different. Either way it's a > > livelock of the user task that doesn't compromise the kernel. There > > are plenty of ways for such a livelock to happen. > > That sounds reasonable to me. OK, I guess we can park this discussion for now. Cheers ---Dave