From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
To: vkuznets <vkuznets@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>,
Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee@microsoft.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Subject: RE: hv_hypercall_pg page permissios
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:41:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <HK0P153MB0322DE798AA39BCCD4A208E4BF9C0@HK0P153MB0322.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2ooiv5k.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com>
> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 1:35 AM
> Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> writes:
>
> >> From: linux-hyperv-owner@vger.kernel.org
> >> <linux-hyperv-owner@vger.kernel.org> On Behalf Of Andy Lutomirski
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 2:01 PM
> >> > On Apr 7, 2020, at 12:38 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 09:28:01AM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> >> >> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Hi all,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The x86 Hyper-V hypercall page (hv_hypercall_pg) is the only allocation
> >> >>> in the kernel using __vmalloc with exectutable persmissions, and the
> >> >>> only user of PAGE_KERNEL_RX. Is there any good reason it needs to
> >> >>> be readable? Otherwise we could use vmalloc_exec and kill off
> >> >>> PAGE_KERNEL_RX. Note that before 372b1e91343e6 ("drivers: hv:
> Turn
> >> off
> >> >>> write permission on the hypercall page") it was even mapped writable..
> >> >>
> >> >> [There is nothing secret in the hypercall page, by reading it you can
> >> >> figure out if you're running on Intel or AMD (VMCALL/VMMCALL) but it's
> >> >> likely not the only possible way :-)]
> >> >>
> >> >> I see no reason for hv_hypercall_pg to remain readable. I just
> >> >> smoke-tested
> >> >
> >> > Thanks, I have the same in my WIP tree, but just wanted to confirm this
> >> > makes sense.
> >>
> >> Just to make sure we’re all on the same page: x86 doesn’t normally have
> an
> >> execute-only mode. Executable memory in the kernel is readable unless you
> >> are using fancy hypervisor-based XO support.
> >
> > Hi hch,
> > The patch is merged into the mainine recently, but unluckily we noticed
> > a warning with CONFIG_DEBUG_WX=y (it looks typically this config is defined
> > by default in Linux distros, at least in Ubuntu 18.04's
> > /boot/config-4.18.0-11-generic).
> >
> > Should we revert this patch, or figure out a way to ask the DEBUG_WX code
> to
> > ignore this page?
> >
>
> Are you sure it is hv_hypercall_pg?
Yes, 100% sure. I printed the value of hv_hypercall_pg and and it matched the
address in the warning line " x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address".
> AFAIU it shouldn't be W+X as we
> are allocating it with vmalloc_exec(). In other words, if you revert
> 78bb17f76edc, does the issue go away?
>
> Vitaly
Yes, the warning goes away if I revert
78bb17f76edc ("x86/hyperv: use vmalloc_exec for the hypercall page")
88dca4ca5a93 ("mm: remove the pgprot argument to __vmalloc")
(I have to revert the second as well with some manual adjustments, since
__vmalloc() has 2 parameters now.)
Thanks,
Dexuan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-15 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-07 6:55 hv_hypercall_pg page permissios Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-07 7:28 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-04-07 7:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-07 21:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-12 7:48 ` Dexuan Cui
2020-06-15 8:35 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-06-15 17:41 ` Dexuan Cui [this message]
2020-06-15 19:49 ` Dexuan Cui
2020-06-16 7:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 10:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-16 10:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 10:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-16 10:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-16 10:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 10:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 11:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-16 14:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 9:29 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-06-16 9:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 9:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 10:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-16 10:50 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-06-16 10:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-07 18:10 ` Dexuan Cui
2020-04-07 20:42 ` Wei Liu
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