Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 6 authors, 2020-06-16

Re: hv_hypercall_pg page permissios

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2020-06-16 09:33:48
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:29:33AM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
it seems we need something like PAGE_KERNEL_READONLY_EXEC but we don't
seem to have one on x86. Hypercall page is special in a way that the
guest doesn't need to write there at all. vmalloc_exec() seems to have
only one other user on x86: module_alloc() and it has other needs.
module_alloc actually is a weak function and overriden on x86 (and many
other architectures) , so it isn't used either (did I mention that I hate
weak functions?)
On
ARM, alloc_insn_page() does the following:

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c:     page = vmalloc_exec(PAGE_SIZE);
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c-     if (page) {
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c-             set_memory_ro((unsigned long)page, 1);
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c-             set_vm_flush_reset_perms(page);
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c-     }

What if we do the same? (almost untested):
diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
index e2137070386a..31aadfea589b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/cpuhotplug.h>
 #include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
+#include <linux/set_memory.h>
 #include <clocksource/hyperv_timer.h>
 
 void *hv_hypercall_pg;
@@ -383,6 +384,8 @@ void __init hyperv_init(void)
                wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_OS_ID, 0);
                goto remove_cpuhp_state;
        }
+       set_memory_ro((unsigned long)hv_hypercall_pg, 1);
+       set_vm_flush_reset_perms(hv_hypercall_pg);
This should work and might be the best for 5.8, but I think we need
to sort this whole mess out for real.
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