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From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux•ibm.com>
To: Ram Pai <linuxram@us•ibm.com>
Cc: mpe@ellerman•id.au, linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org,
	hbabu@us•ibm.com, mhocko@kernel•org, bauerman@linux•vnet.ibm.com,
	Ulrich.Weigand@de•ibm.com, fweimer@redhat•com, msuchanek@suse•de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/pkeys: preallocate execute_only key only if the key is available.
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:56:34 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu16xpul.fsf@morokweng.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1529979376-7292-1-git-send-email-linuxram@us.ibm.com>


Hello,

Ram Pai <linuxram@us•ibm.com> writes:

> Key 2 is preallocated and reserved for execute-only key. In rare
> cases if key-2 is unavailable, mprotect(PROT_EXEC) will behave
> incorrectly. NOTE: mprotect(PROT_EXEC) uses execute-only key.
>
> Ensure key 2 is available for preallocation before reserving it for
> execute_only purpose.  Problem noticed by Michael Ellermen.

Since "powerpc/pkeys: Preallocate execute-only key" isn't upstream yet,
this patch could be squashed into it.

> Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us•ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c |   14 +++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c
> index cec990c..0b03914 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pkeys.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>  u64  pkey_amr_mask;		/* Bits in AMR not to be touched */
>  u64  pkey_iamr_mask;		/* Bits in AMR not to be touched */
>  u64  pkey_uamor_mask;		/* Bits in UMOR not to be touched */
> +int  execute_only_key = 2;
>
>  #define AMR_BITS_PER_PKEY 2
>  #define AMR_RD_BIT 0x1UL
> @@ -26,7 +27,6 @@
>  #define IAMR_EX_BIT 0x1UL
>  #define PKEY_REG_BITS (sizeof(u64)*8)
>  #define pkeyshift(pkey) (PKEY_REG_BITS - ((pkey+1) * AMR_BITS_PER_PKEY))
> -#define EXECUTE_ONLY_KEY 2
>
>  static void scan_pkey_feature(void)
>  {
> @@ -122,8 +122,12 @@ int pkey_initialize(void)
>  #else
>  	os_reserved = 0;
>  #endif
> +
> +	if ((pkeys_total - os_reserved) <= execute_only_key)
> +		execute_only_key = -1;
> +
>  	/* Bits are in LE format. */
> -	reserved_allocation_mask = (0x1 << 1) | (0x1 << EXECUTE_ONLY_KEY);
> +	reserved_allocation_mask = (0x1 << 1) | (0x1 << execute_only_key);

My understanding is that left-shifting by a negative amount is undefined
behavior in C. A quick test tells me that at least on the couple of
machines I tested, 1 < -1 = 0. Does GCC guarantee that behavior? If so,
a comment pointing this out would make this less confusing.

>  	initial_allocation_mask  = reserved_allocation_mask | (0x1 << PKEY_0);
>
>  	/* register mask is in BE format */
> @@ -132,11 +136,11 @@ int pkey_initialize(void)
>
>  	pkey_iamr_mask = ~0x0ul;
>  	pkey_iamr_mask &= ~(0x3ul << pkeyshift(PKEY_0));
> -	pkey_iamr_mask &= ~(0x3ul << pkeyshift(EXECUTE_ONLY_KEY));
> +	pkey_iamr_mask &= ~(0x3ul << pkeyshift(execute_only_key));
>
>  	pkey_uamor_mask = ~0x0ul;
>  	pkey_uamor_mask &= ~(0x3ul << pkeyshift(PKEY_0));
> -	pkey_uamor_mask &= ~(0x3ul << pkeyshift(EXECUTE_ONLY_KEY));
> +	pkey_uamor_mask &= ~(0x3ul << pkeyshift(execute_only_key));

Here the behaviour is undefined in C as well, given that pkeyshift(-1) =
64, which is the total number of bits in the left operand. Does GCC
guarantee that the result will be 0 here as well?

--
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-29  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-26  2:16 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/pkeys: preallocate execute_only key only if the key is available Ram Pai
2018-06-26  2:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/pkeys: key allocation/deallocation must not change pkey registers Ram Pai
2018-07-03  1:35   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2018-06-26  2:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/core-pkeys: execute-permission on keys are disabled by default Ram Pai
2018-07-03  3:30   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2018-06-26  2:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/ptrace-pkeys: " Ram Pai
2018-07-03  3:30   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2018-06-29  2:56 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
2018-06-29  6:07   ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/pkeys: preallocate execute_only key only if the key is available Gabriel Paubert
2018-06-30  0:58     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2018-06-30  1:40       ` Ram Pai
2018-06-30 16:56       ` Gabriel Paubert

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