[PATCH 5.10 576/593] selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jul 12 2021 - 03:15:51 EST


From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 6039ca254979694c5362dfebadd105e286c397bb ]

The pkey test code keeps a "shadow" of the pkey register around. This
ensures that any bugs which might write to the register can be caught more
quickly.

Generally, userspace has a good idea when the kernel is going to write to
the register. For instance, alloc_pkey() is passed a permission mask.
The caller of alloc_pkey() can update the shadow based on the return value
and the mask.

But, the kernel can also modify the pkey register in a more sneaky way.
For mprotect(PROT_EXEC) mappings, the kernel will allocate a pkey and
write the pkey register to create an execute-only mapping. The kernel
never tells userspace what key it uses for this.

This can cause the test to fail with messages like:

protection_keys_64.2: pkey-helpers.h:132: _read_pkey_reg: Assertion `pkey_reg == shadow_pkey_reg' failed.

because the shadow was not updated with the new kernel-set value.

Forcibly update the shadow value immediately after an mprotect().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210611164200.EF76AB73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 6af17cf89e99 ("x86/pkeys/selftests: Add PROT_EXEC test")
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario" <desnesn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
index 356d62fca27f..87eecd5ba577 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
@@ -1448,6 +1448,13 @@ void test_implicit_mprotect_exec_only_memory(int *ptr, u16 pkey)
ret = mprotect(p1, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_EXEC);
pkey_assert(!ret);

+ /*
+ * Reset the shadow, assuming that the above mprotect()
+ * correctly changed PKRU, but to an unknown value since
+ * the actual alllocated pkey is unknown.
+ */
+ shadow_pkey_reg = __read_pkey_reg();
+
dprintf2("pkey_reg: %016llx\n", read_pkey_reg());

/* Make sure this is an *instruction* fault */
--
2.30.2