From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
"kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com"
<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@gmail.com>, Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [RFC v2][PATCH 04/11] x86: Implement __arch_rare_write_begin/unmap()
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 21:58:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrXd9MgAk2p72UMbOOoL2W1fP0UT_pc2bfG8r0t=qJotwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58E7EF70.30766.621C4F44@pageexec.freemail.hu>
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:58 PM, PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> wrote:
> On 7 Apr 2017 at 9:14, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 6:30 AM, Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On 7 April 2017 at 15:14, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Mathias Krause wrote:
>> > Fair enough. However, placing a BUG_ON(!(read_cr0() & X86_CR0_WP))
>> > somewhere sensible should make those "leaks" visible fast -- and their
>> > exploitation impossible, i.e. fail hard.
>>
>> The leaks surely exist and now we'll just add an exploitable BUG.
>
> can you please share those leaks that 'surely exist' and CC oss-security
> while at it?
I meant in the patchset here, not in grsecurity. grsecurity (on very,
very brief inspection) seems to read cr0 and fix it up in
pax_enter_kernel.
>>
>> Then someone who cares about performance can benchmark the CR0.WP
>> approach against it and try to argue that it's a good idea. This
>> benchmark should wait until I'm done with my PCID work, because PCID
>> is going to make use_mm() a whole heck of a lot faster.
>
> in my measurements switching PCID is hovers around 230 cycles for snb-ivb
> and 200-220 for hsw-skl whereas cr0 writes are around 230-240 cycles. there's
> of course a whole lot more impact for switching address spaces so it'll never
> be fast enough to beat cr0.wp.
>
If I'm reading this right, you're saying that a non-flushing CR3 write
is about the same cost as a CR0.WP write. If so, then why should CR0
be preferred over the (arch-neutral) CR3 approach? And why would
switching address spaces obviously be much slower? There'll be a very
small number of TLB fills needed for the actual protected access.
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-08 4:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-29 18:15 [RFC v2] Introduce rare_write() infrastructure Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:15 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 01/11] " Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:23 ` Kees Cook
2017-03-30 7:44 ` Ho-Eun Ryu
2017-03-30 17:02 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-07 8:09 ` Ho-Eun Ryu
2017-04-07 20:38 ` Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:15 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 02/11] lkdtm: add test for " Kees Cook
2017-03-30 9:34 ` [kernel-hardening] " Ian Campbell
2017-03-30 16:16 ` Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:15 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 03/11] net: switch sock_diag handlers to rare_write() Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:15 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 04/11] x86: Implement __arch_rare_write_begin/unmap() Kees Cook
2017-03-29 22:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-03-30 1:41 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-05 23:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-06 0:14 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-06 15:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-07 8:34 ` [kernel-hardening] " Mathias Krause
2017-04-07 9:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-07 10:51 ` Mathias Krause
2017-04-07 13:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-07 13:30 ` Mathias Krause
2017-04-07 16:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-07 16:22 ` Mark Rutland
2017-04-07 19:58 ` PaX Team
2017-04-08 4:58 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2017-04-09 12:47 ` PaX Team
2017-04-10 0:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-10 10:42 ` PaX Team
2017-04-10 16:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-07 20:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-07 21:20 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-08 4:12 ` Daniel Micay
2017-04-08 4:13 ` Daniel Micay
2017-04-08 4:21 ` Daniel Micay
2017-04-08 5:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-08 7:33 ` Daniel Micay
2017-04-08 15:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-09 10:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-04-10 10:22 ` Mark Rutland
2017-04-09 20:24 ` PaX Team
2017-04-10 0:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-10 19:47 ` PaX Team
2017-04-10 20:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-10 20:13 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-10 20:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-07 19:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-07 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-10 10:29 ` Mark Rutland
2017-04-07 19:52 ` PaX Team
2017-04-10 8:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-04-10 19:55 ` PaX Team
2017-04-07 9:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-29 18:15 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 05/11] ARM: mm: dump: Add domain to output Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:15 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 06/11] ARM: domains: Extract common USER domain init Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:15 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 07/11] ARM: mm: set DOMAIN_WR_RARE for rodata Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:16 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 08/11] ARM: Implement __arch_rare_write_begin/end() Kees Cook
2017-04-07 9:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-29 18:16 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 09/11] list: add rare_write() list helpers Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:16 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 10/11] gcc-plugins: Add constify plugin Kees Cook
2017-03-29 18:16 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 11/11] cgroups: force all struct cftype const Kees Cook
2017-03-29 19:00 ` [RFC v2] Introduce rare_write() infrastructure Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-03-29 19:14 ` Kees Cook
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