Re: [PATCH 4.4 v2] x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel page table

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Jan 13 2018 - 08:53:48 EST


On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 03:00:02PM -0500, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> In entry_64.S we have code like this:
>
> /* Unconditionally use kernel CR3 for do_nmi() */
> /* %rax is saved above, so OK to clobber here */
> ALTERNATIVE "jmp 2f", "movq %cr3, %rax", X86_FEATURE_KAISER
> /* If PCID enabled, NOFLUSH now and NOFLUSH on return */
> ALTERNATIVE "", "bts $63, %rax", X86_FEATURE_PCID
> pushq %rax
> /* mask off "user" bit of pgd address and 12 PCID bits: */
> andq $(~(X86_CR3_PCID_ASID_MASK | KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET)), %rax
> movq %rax, %cr3
> 2:
>
> /* paranoidentry do_nmi, 0; without TRACE_IRQS_OFF */
> call do_nmi
>
> With this instruction:
> andq $(~(X86_CR3_PCID_ASID_MASK | KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET)), %rax
>
> We unconditionally switch from whatever our CR3 was to kernel page table.
> But, in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c We temporarily set a different page
> table, that does not have the kernel page table with 0x1000 offset from it.
>
> Look in efi_thunk() and efi_thunk_set_virtual_address_map().
>
> So, while CR3 points to the other page table, we get an NMI interrupt,
> and clear 0x1000 from CR3, resulting in a bogus CR3 if the 0x1000 bit was
> set.
>
> The efi page table comes from realmode/rm/trampoline_64.S:
>
> arch/x86/realmode/rm/trampoline_64.S
>
> 141 .bss
> 142 .balign PAGE_SIZE
> 143 GLOBAL(trampoline_pgd) .space PAGE_SIZE
>
> Notice: alignment is PAGE_SIZE, so after applying KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET
> which equal to PAGE_SIZE, we can get a different page table.
>
> But, even if we fix alignment, here the trampoline binary is later copied
> into dynamically allocated memory in reserve_real_mode(), so we need to
> fix that place as well.
>
> Fixes: 8a43ddfb93a0 ("KAISER: Kernel Address Isolation")
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/kaiser.h | 10 ++++++++++
> arch/x86/realmode/init.c | 4 +++-
> arch/x86/realmode/rm/trampoline_64.S | 3 ++-
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Changelog:
> v1 - v2: Fixed compiling issue when PTI config is disabled.

This one is now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h