[PATCH RFC v9 14/25] mm: kpkeys: Protect vmemmap page tables

Kevin Brodsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-hardening,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When the kpkeys_hardened_pgtables feature is enabled, make sure that
vmemmap page tables are protected by using:

* The standard pagetable_alloc() if the buddy allocator is
  available, as it already allocates protected memory.

* The memblock-based kpkeys allocator for early allocations.

These allocators are not NUMA-aware, so the page tables may be
allocated on any node. This could potentially incur some overhead on
large NUMA systems.

The arm64 hotplug code is also amended to use a matching
pagetable_free(), ensuring that the pkey is reset when the page
tables are freed. x86 already uses pagetable_free() on that path.

Unlike in vmemmap_alloc_block(), __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is not used as
it isn't justified for allocating page tables - this disables the
OOM and we do not have a fallback if we fail to allocate page
tables. See previous discussion linked below.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <[email protected]>
---

This is a minimal patch to protect vmemmmap page tables. More work
may be needed here:

* Restoring NUMA awareness

* Moving the arm64 change to a separate commit?

* General refactoring of how these page tables are allocated: since
  we are not using the standard per-level functions (e.g.
  pmd_alloc()), we are not calling pagetable_*_ctor() or
  ptdesc_set_kernel(). I sent a separate series [1] that partially
  addresses this, but more work is still needed.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c |  2 +-
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 767478d9e84b..b071f128b9fa 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ static void free_hotplug_page_range(struct page *page, size_t size,
 static void free_hotplug_pgtable_page(struct page *page)
 {
 	pagetable_dtor(page_ptdesc(page));
-	free_hotplug_page_range(page, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
+	pagetable_free(page_ptdesc(page));
 }
 
 static bool pgtable_range_aligned(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index ebd3ac997f64..1fec89168ff1 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -179,13 +179,29 @@ static pte_t * __meminit vmemmap_pte_populate(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, in
 	return pte;
 }
 
-static void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(unsigned long size, int node)
+static void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_pgtable(int node)
 {
-	void *p = vmemmap_alloc_block(size, node);
+	void *p;
+
+	if (slab_is_available()) {
+		gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO;
+		struct ptdesc *ptdesc = pagetable_alloc(gfp, 0);
+
+		return ptdesc ? ptdesc_address(ptdesc) : NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (kpkeys_hardened_pgtables_early_enabled()) {
+		phys_addr_t phys = kpkeys_physmem_pgtable_alloc();
+
+		p = phys ? phys_to_virt(phys) : NULL;
+	} else {
+		p = __earlyonly_bootmem_alloc(node, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE,
+					      __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
+	}
 
 	if (!p)
 		return NULL;
-	memset(p, 0, size);
+	memset(p, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
 
 	return p;
 }
@@ -194,7 +210,7 @@ static pmd_t * __meminit vmemmap_pmd_populate(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, in
 {
 	pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
 	if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {
-		void *p = vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(PAGE_SIZE, node);
+		void *p = vmemmap_alloc_pgtable(node);
 		if (!p)
 			return NULL;
 		kernel_pte_init(p);
@@ -207,7 +223,7 @@ static pud_t * __meminit vmemmap_pud_populate(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr, in
 {
 	pud_t *pud = pud_offset(p4d, addr);
 	if (pud_none(*pud)) {
-		void *p = vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(PAGE_SIZE, node);
+		void *p = vmemmap_alloc_pgtable(node);
 		if (!p)
 			return NULL;
 		pmd_init(p);
@@ -220,7 +236,7 @@ static p4d_t * __meminit vmemmap_p4d_populate(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr, in
 {
 	p4d_t *p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, addr);
 	if (p4d_none(*p4d)) {
-		void *p = vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(PAGE_SIZE, node);
+		void *p = vmemmap_alloc_pgtable(node);
 		if (!p)
 			return NULL;
 		pud_init(p);
@@ -233,7 +249,7 @@ static pgd_t * __meminit vmemmap_pgd_populate(unsigned long addr, int node)
 {
 	pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
 	if (pgd_none(*pgd)) {
-		void *p = vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(PAGE_SIZE, node);
+		void *p = vmemmap_alloc_pgtable(node);
 		if (!p)
 			return NULL;
 		pgd_populate_kernel(addr, pgd, p);
@@ -346,10 +362,11 @@ static __meminit struct page *vmemmap_get_tail(unsigned int order, struct zone *
 	 * memmap_init().
 	 */
 
-	p = vmemmap_alloc_block_zero(PAGE_SIZE, node);
+	p = vmemmap_alloc_block(PAGE_SIZE, node);
 	if (!p)
 		return NULL;
 
+	memset(p, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
 	tail = virt_to_page(p);
 	zone->vmemmap_tails[idx] = tail;
 

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