[PATCH 3/4] selftests/vm/pkeys: Refill shadow register after implicit kernel write

[Dave Hansen]

From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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().

Fixes: 6af17cf89e99 ("x86/pkeys/selftests: Add PROT_EXEC test")
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
---

 b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff -puN tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c~selftests_vm_pkeys_Refill_shadow_register_after_implict_kernel_write-1 tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c~selftests_vm_pkeys_Refill_shadow_register_after_implict_kernel_write-1	2021-06-11 09:41:33.508468061 -0700
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c	2021-06-11 09:41:33.517468061 -0700
@@ -1448,6 +1448,13 @@ void test_implicit_mprotect_exec_only_me
 	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 */
_