Re: [PATCH 33/33] x86, pkeys: execute-only support

[Dave Hansen]

On 02/17/2016 01:27 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> Is there a way to detect this feature's availability without userspace
> having to set up a segv handler and attempting to read a
> PROT_EXEC-only region? (i.e. cpu flag for protection keys, or a way to
> check the protection to see if PROT_READ got added automatically,
> etc?)

You can kinda do it with /proc/$pid/(s)maps.  Here's smaps, for instance:

> 00401000-00402000 --xp 00001000 08:14 4897479                            /root/pkeys/pkey-xonly
> Size:                  4 kB
> Rss:                   4 kB
...
> KernelPageSize:        4 kB
> MMUPageSize:           4 kB
> Locked:                0 kB
> ProtectionKey:        15
> VmFlags: ex mr mw me dw 

You can see "--x" and the ProtectionKey itself being nonzero.  That's a
reasonable indication.  There's also the "OSPKE" cpuid bit which only
shows up when the kernel has enabled protection keys.  This is
_separate_ from the bit that says whether the processor support pkeys.

I check them in test code like this:

> static inline void __cpuid(unsigned int *eax, unsigned int *ebx,
>                                 unsigned int *ecx, unsigned int *edx)
> {
>         /* ecx is often an input as well as an output. */
>         asm volatile(
>                 "cpuid;"
>                 : "=a" (*eax),
>                   "=b" (*ebx),
>                   "=c" (*ecx),
>                   "=d" (*edx)
>                 : "0" (*eax), "2" (*ecx));
> }
> 
> /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (ecx) */
> #define X86_FEATURE_PKU        (1<<3) /* Protection Keys for Userspace */
> #define X86_FEATURE_OSPKE      (1<<4) /* OS Protection Keys Enable */
> 
> static inline int cpu_has_pku(void)
> {
>         unsigned int eax;
>         unsigned int ebx;
>         unsigned int ecx;
>         unsigned int edx;
>         eax = 0x7;
>         ecx = 0x0;
>         __cpuid(&eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
> 
>         if (!(ecx & X86_FEATURE_PKU)) {
>                 dprintf2("cpu does not have PKU\n");
>                 return 0;
>         }
>         if (!(ecx & X86_FEATURE_OSPKE)) {
>                 dprintf2("cpu does not have OSPKE\n");
>                 return 0;
>         }
>         return 1;
> }