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[PATCH 5.13 777/800] selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-07-12 09:01:48
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Subsystem: kernel selftest framework, the rest · Maintainers: Shuah Khan, Linus Torvalds

From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

[ Upstream commit 6039ca254979694c5362dfebadd105e286c397bb ]

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().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210611164200.EF76AB73@viggo.jf.intel.com
Fixes: 6af17cf89e99 ("x86/pkeys/selftests: Add PROT_EXEC test")
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
Cc: Ram Pai <redacted>
Cc: Sandipan Das <redacted>
Cc: Florian Weimer <redacted>
Cc: "Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario" <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <redacted>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Suchanek <redacted>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
index 356d62fca27f..87eecd5ba577 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/protection_keys.c
@@ -1448,6 +1448,13 @@ void test_implicit_mprotect_exec_only_memory(int *ptr, u16 pkey)
 	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 */
-- 
2.30.2


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