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From: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@gmail.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@huawei.com>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
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	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] prmem: documentation
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 14:34:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20ad363b-e78d-efcb-0a17-3ae2d3fbaa5f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXB34QBcYk=k5DT1t4h7EezaPxbxM2S_h2nYk5Nv1c4_Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,
apologies for the delayed answer.
Please find my reply to both last mails in the thread, below.

On 22/11/2018 22:53, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:04 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 09:27:02PM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote:
>>> I have studied the code involved with Nadav's patchset.
>>> I am perplexed about these sentences you wrote.
>>>
>>> More to the point (to the best of my understanding):
>>>
>>> poking_init()
>>> -------------
>>>    1. it gets one random poking address and ensures to have at least 2
>>>       consecutive PTEs from the same PMD
>>>    2. it then proceeds to map/unmap an address from the first of the 2
>>>       consecutive PTEs, so that, later on, there will be no need to
>>>       allocate pages, which might fail, if poking from atomic context.
>>>    3. at this point, the page tables are populated, for the address that
>>>       was obtained at point 1, and this is ok, because the address is fixed
>>>
>>> write_rare
>>> ----------
>>>    4. it can happen on any available core / thread at any time, therefore
>>>       each of them needs a different address
>>
>> No?  Each CPU has its own CR3 (eg each CPU might be running a different
>> user task).  If you have _one_ address for each allocation, it may or
>> may not be mapped on other CPUs at the same time -- you simply don't care.

Yes, somehow I lost track of that aspect.

>> The writable address can even be a simple formula to calculate from
>> the read-only address, you don't have to allocate an address in the
>> writable mapping space.
>>
> 
> Agreed.  I suggest the formula:
> 
> writable_address = readable_address - rare_write_offset.  For
> starters, rare_write_offset can just be a constant.  If we want to get
> fancy later on, it can be randomized.

ok, I hope I captured it here [1]

> If we do it like this, then we don't need to modify any pagetables at
> all when we do a rare write.  Instead we can set up the mapping at
> boot or when we allocate the rare write space, and the actual rare
> write code can just switch mms and do the write.

I did it. I have little feeling about the actual amount of data 
involved, but there is a (probably very remote) chance that the remap 
wouldn't work, at least in the current implementation.

It's a bit different from what I had in mind initially, since I was 
thinking to have one single approach to both statically allocated memory 
(is there a better way to describe it) and what is provided from the 
allocator that would come next.

As I wrote, I do not particularly like the way I implemented multiple 
functionality vs remapping, but I couldn't figure out any better way to 
do it, so eventually I kept this one, hoping to get some advice on how 
to improve it.

I did not provide yet an example, yet, but IMA has some flags that are 
probably very suitable, since they depend on policy reloading, which can 
happen multiple times, but could be used to disable it.

[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/12/04/3

--
igor

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-04 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 137+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20181023213504.28905-1-igor.stoppa@huawei.com>
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 01/17] prmem: linker section for static write rare Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 02/17] prmem: write rare for static allocation Igor Stoppa
2018-10-25  0:24   ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-29 18:03     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-26  9:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-29 20:01     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 03/17] prmem: vmalloc support for dynamic allocation Igor Stoppa
2018-10-25  0:26   ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-29 18:07     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 04/17] prmem: " Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 05/17] prmem: shorthands for write rare on common types Igor Stoppa
2018-10-25  0:28   ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-29 18:12     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 06/17] prmem: test cases for memory protection Igor Stoppa
2018-10-24  3:27   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-10-24 14:24     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-25 16:43   ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-29 18:16     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 07/17] prmem: lkdtm tests " Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 08/17] prmem: struct page: track vmap_area Igor Stoppa
2018-10-24  3:12   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-24 23:01     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-25  2:13       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-29 18:21         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 09/17] prmem: hardened usercopy Igor Stoppa
2018-10-29 11:45   ` Chris von Recklinghausen
2018-10-29 18:24     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 10/17] prmem: documentation Igor Stoppa
2018-10-24  3:48   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-10-24 14:30     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-24 23:04   ` Mike Rapoport
2018-10-29 19:05     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-26  9:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-26 10:20     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-29 19:28       ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-26 10:46     ` Kees Cook
2018-10-28 18:31       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-29 21:04         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-30 15:26           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-30 16:37             ` Kees Cook
2018-10-30 17:06               ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-30 17:58                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-30 18:03                   ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-31  9:18                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-30 18:28                   ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-30 19:20                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-30 20:43                       ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-30 21:02                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-30 21:07                           ` Kees Cook
2018-10-30 21:25                             ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-30 22:15                           ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-31 10:11                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-31 20:38                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-31 20:53                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-31  9:45                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-30 21:35                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-30 21:49                           ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-31  4:41                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-31  9:08                             ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-31 19:38                               ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-31 10:02                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-31 20:36                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-31 21:00                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-31 22:57                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-31 23:10                                     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-31 23:19                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-31 23:26                                         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-01  8:21                                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-01 15:58                                             ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-01 17:08                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-30 18:51                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-30 19:14                     ` Kees Cook
2018-10-30 21:25                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-30 21:55                       ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-30 22:08                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-31  9:29                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-30 23:18                     ` Nadav Amit
2018-10-31  9:08                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01 16:31                         ` Nadav Amit
2018-11-02 21:11                           ` Nadav Amit
2018-10-31  9:36                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-31 11:33                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-13 14:25                 ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-13 17:16                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-13 17:43                     ` Nadav Amit
2018-11-13 17:47                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-13 18:06                         ` Nadav Amit
2018-11-13 18:31                         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-13 18:33                           ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-13 18:36                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-13 19:03                               ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-21 16:34                               ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-21 17:36                                 ` Nadav Amit
2018-11-21 18:01                                   ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-21 18:15                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-22 19:27                                   ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-22 20:04                                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-22 20:53                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-04 12:34                                         ` Igor Stoppa [this message]
2018-11-13 18:48                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-13 19:35                             ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-13 18:26                     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-11-13 18:35                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-13 19:01                         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-31  9:27               ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-26 11:09     ` Markus Heiser
2018-10-29 19:35       ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-26 15:05     ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-10-29 19:38       ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-29 20:35     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 11/17] prmem: llist: use designated initializer Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:34 ` [PATCH 12/17] prmem: linked list: set alignment Igor Stoppa
2018-10-26  9:31   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-23 21:35 ` [PATCH 13/17] prmem: linked list: disable layout randomization Igor Stoppa
2018-10-24 13:43   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-10-29 19:40     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-26  9:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-26 10:17     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-10-30 15:39       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-23 21:35 ` [PATCH 14/17] prmem: llist, hlist, both plain and rcu Igor Stoppa
2018-10-24 11:37   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-10-24 14:03     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-24 14:56       ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-24 22:52         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-25  8:11           ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-28  9:52       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-29 19:43         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-26  9:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-23 21:35 ` [PATCH 15/17] prmem: test cases for prlist and prhlist Igor Stoppa
2018-10-23 21:35 ` [PATCH 16/17] prmem: pratomic-long Igor Stoppa
2018-10-25  0:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-29 21:17     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-10-30 15:58       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-30 16:28         ` Will Deacon
2018-10-31  9:10           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-01  3:28             ` Kees Cook
2018-10-23 21:35 ` [PATCH 17/17] prmem: ima: turn the measurements list write rare Igor Stoppa

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