From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 03/32] x86/cpa: In populate_pgd, don't set the pgd entry until it's populated
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:43:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5741.1469162592@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb3254e25e38790c538cca0f46c4a7a714c77ddf.1468270393.git.luto@kernel.org>
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:53:36 -0700, Andy Lutomirski said:
> This avoids pointless races in which another CPU or task might see a
> partially populated global pgd entry. These races should normally
> be harmless, but, if another CPU propagates the entry via
> vmalloc_fault and then populate_pgd fails (due to memory allocation
> failure, for example), this prevents a use-after-free of the pgd
> entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
I just bisected a failure to boot down to this patch. On my Dell Latitude
laptop, it results in the kernel being loaded and then just basically sitting
there dead in the water - as far as I can tell, it dies before the kernel
ever gets going far enough to do any console I/O (even with ignore_loglevel).
Nothing in /sys/fs/pstore either. I admit not understanding the VM code
at all, so I don't have a clue *why* this causes indigestion...
CPU is an Intel Core i5-3340M in case that matters....
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-11 20:53 [PATCH v5 00/32] virtually mapped stacks and thread_info cleanup Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 01/32] bluetooth: Switch SMP to crypto_cipher_encrypt_one() Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-14 19:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-14 20:30 ` Marcel Holtmann
2016-07-14 20:41 ` David Miller
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 02/32] x86/mm/hotplug: Don't remove PGD entries in remove_pagetable() Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 03/32] x86/cpa: In populate_pgd, don't set the pgd entry until it's populated Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-22 4:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2016-07-22 5:34 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-22 10:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-07-22 18:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-22 18:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-22 20:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-07-23 5:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2016-07-23 14:58 ` Nicolai Stange
2016-07-28 9:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 04/32] x86/mm: Remove kernel_unmap_pages_in_pgd() and efi_cleanup_page_tables() Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 05/32] mm: Track NR_KERNEL_STACK in KiB instead of number of stacks Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 06/32] mm: Fix memcg stack accounting for sub-page stacks Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 07/32] fork: Add generic vmalloced stack support Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 08/32] dma-api: Teach the "DMA-from-stack" check about vmapped stacks Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 09/32] x86/dumpstack: When OOPSing, rewind the stack before do_exit() Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 10/32] x86/dumpstack: Honor supplied @regs arg Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 11/32] x86/dumpstack: Try harder to get a call trace on stack overflow Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 12/32] x86/dumpstack/64: Handle faults when printing the "Stack:" part of an OOPS Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 13/32] x86/mm/64: In vmalloc_fault(), use CR3 instead of current->active_mm Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-12 17:51 ` [kernel-hardening] " Dave Hansen
2016-07-12 18:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 14/32] x86/mm/64: Enable vmapped stacks Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-13 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-07-13 18:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-14 8:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-07-14 16:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-14 18:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 15/32] x86/mm: Improve stack-overflow #PF handling Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 16/32] x86: Move uaccess_err and sig_on_uaccess_err to thread_struct Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 17/32] x86: Move addr_limit " Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 18/32] signal: Consolidate {TS,TLF}_RESTORE_SIGMASK code Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-12 11:57 ` Brian Gerst
2016-07-12 23:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 19/32] x86/smp: Remove stack_smp_processor_id() Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 20/32] x86/smp: Remove unnecessary initialization of thread_info::cpu Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 21/32] x86/asm: Move 'status' from struct thread_info to struct thread_struct Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 22/32] kdb: Use task_cpu() instead of task_thread_info()->cpu Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 23/32] printk: When dumping regs, show the stack, not thread_info Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 24/32] x86/entry: Get rid of pt_regs_to_thread_info() Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 25/32] um: Stop conflating task_struct::stack with thread_info Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 26/32] sched: Allow putting thread_info into task_struct Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 27/32] x86: Move " Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 28/32] sched: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack() Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 29/32] kthread: to_live_kthread() needs try_get_task_stack() Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 30/32] x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack in save_stack_trace_tsk() Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 31/32] sched: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-11 20:54 ` [PATCH v5 32/32] fork: Cache two thread stacks per cpu if CONFIG_VMAP_STACK is set Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-12 8:56 ` [PATCH v5 00/32] virtually mapped stacks and thread_info cleanup Herbert Xu
2016-07-13 8:54 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-07-13 18:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-07-13 18:53 ` Christian Borntraeger
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