Re: next-20170515: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:236 note_page+0x630/0x7e0

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:06:50AM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Using QEMU emulator version 2.7.94 (v2.8.0-rc4-dirty)
>>>
>>> I will try updating my distro package for qemu and see if perhaps its this
>>> and for the other odd fork issue I reported [0].
>>>
>>> [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAB=NE6VZXq3y-3pfouYTBUco2Cq2xqoLZrgDFdVx+_=_=SwG_Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Yeah nope, using my distribution latest:
>>
>> QEMU emulator version 2.8.0(openSUSE Tumbleweed)
>>
>> And still both issues are present.
>>
>>   Luis
>
> Can you enable CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP=y and then find out what is located
> at ffffffffc0288000 via /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables ?

Sure thing.

Recompiled with this enabled, new warning:

[    0.891559] x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address
ffffffffc00e4000/0xffffffffc00e4000
[    0.892394] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.892834] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at
arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:236 note_page+0x630/0x7e0
[    0.893674] Modules linked in:
[    0.893972] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
4.12.0-rc1-next-20170515+ #145
[    0.894687] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
[    0.895828] task: ffff8ed7fa5ccc80 task.stack: ffffae3900630000
[    0.896403] RIP: 0010:note_page+0x630/0x7e0
[    0.896780] RSP: 0018:ffffae3900633df0 EFLAGS: 00010286
[    0.897271] RAX: 0000000000000051 RBX: ffffae3900633e88 RCX: ffffffff9b456708
[    0.897940] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000096 RDI: 0000000000000246
[    0.898624] RBP: ffffae3900633e28 R08: 203a6d6d2f363878 R09: 0000000000000165
[    0.899314] R10: ffffae3900633dd8 R11: 736e6920646e756f R12: 0000000000000000
[    0.899987] R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[    0.900629] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8ed7ffc00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[    0.901398] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    0.901908] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000118009000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[    0.902590] Call Trace:
[    0.902827]  ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core+0x3e7/0x490
[    0.903274]  ? 0xffffffff9a800000
[    0.903595]  ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx+0x17/0x20
[    0.904064]  mark_rodata_ro+0xf4/0x100
[    0.904423]  ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[    0.904744]  kernel_init+0x2f/0x100
[    0.905068]  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
[    0.905393] Code: 48 c7 43 28 00 00 00 00 48 89 43 20 e9 05 fd ff
ff 48 8b 73 10 48 c7 c7 28 36 1e 9b c6 05 c8 eb bc 00 01 48 89 f2 e8
cd fc 11 00 <0f> ff e9 1f fa ff ff 48 8b 70 20 48 c7 c7 65 b2 1e 9b e8
b6 fc
[    0.907173] ---[ end trace 878b39cb0c248e66 ]---
[    0.907655] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, 1 W+X pages found.

And ffffffffc00e4000 is:

---[ Modules ]---
0xffffffffc0000000-0xffffffffc00e4000         912K
          pte
0xffffffffc00e4000-0xffffffffc00e5000           4K     RW
   GLB x  pte

In case someone needs the full /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables file:

http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcgrof/2017/05/15/kernel_page_tables/piggy-4.12.0-rc1-next-20170515-page-tables.txt

 Luis