Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/pti: Move user W+X check into pti_finalize()

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>]

On Wed, 2018-08-08 at 13:16 +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> 
> The user page-table gets the updated kernel mappings in
> pti_finalize(), which runs after the RO+X permissions got
> applied to the kernel page-table in mark_readonly().
> 
> But with CONFIG_DEBUG_WX enabled, the user page-table is
> already checked in mark_readonly() for insecure mappings.
> This causes false-positive warnings, because the user
> page-table did not get the updated mappings yet.
> 
> Move the W+X check for the user page-table into
> pti_finalize() after it updated all required mappings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 7 +++++--
>  arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c  | 3 +--
>  arch/x86/mm/pti.c              | 2 ++
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index e39088cb..a1cb333 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -30,11 +30,14 @@ int __init __early_make_pgtable(unsigned long
> address, pmdval_t pmd);
>  void ptdump_walk_pgd_level(struct seq_file *m, pgd_t *pgd);
>  void ptdump_walk_pgd_level_debugfs(struct seq_file *m, pgd_t *pgd,
> bool user);
>  void ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx(void);
> +void ptdump_walk_user_pgd_level_checkwx(void);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_WX
> -#define debug_checkwx() ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx()
> +#define debug_checkwx()		ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx()
> +#define debug_checkwx_user()	ptdump_walk_user_pgd_level_checkwx()
>  #else
> -#define debug_checkwx() do { } while (0)
> +#define debug_checkwx()		do { } while (0)
> +#define debug_checkwx_user()	do { } while (0)
>  #endif
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
> b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
> index ccd92c4..b8ab901 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
> @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ void ptdump_walk_pgd_level_debugfs(struct seq_file
> *m, pgd_t *pgd, bool user)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ptdump_walk_pgd_level_debugfs);
>  
> -static void ptdump_walk_user_pgd_level_checkwx(void)
> +void ptdump_walk_user_pgd_level_checkwx(void)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
>  	pgd_t *pgd = INIT_PGD;
> @@ -586,7 +586,6 @@ static void
> ptdump_walk_user_pgd_level_checkwx(void)
>  void ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx(void)
>  {
>  	ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core(NULL, NULL, true, false);
> -	ptdump_walk_user_pgd_level_checkwx();
>  }
>  
>  static int __init pt_dump_init(void)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
> index 69a9d60..026a89a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
> @@ -628,4 +628,6 @@ void pti_finalize(void)
>  	 */
>  	pti_clone_entry_text();
>  	pti_clone_kernel_text();
> +
> +	debug_checkwx_user();
>  }

I've tested this in a VM and on an Atom laptop, as usual. No
regressions noted.

(The version I tested was the latter pulled into tip:
[ tglx: Folded !NX supported fix ])

Tested-by: David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>

Regards,

Dave