From df4e817b710809425d899340dbfa8504a3ca4ba5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pasha Tatashin Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:06:37 -0800 Subject: mm: page table check Check user page table entries at the time they are added and removed. Allows to synchronously catch memory corruption issues related to double mapping. When a pte for an anonymous page is added into page table, we verify that this pte does not already point to a file backed page, and vice versa if this is a file backed page that is being added we verify that this page does not have an anonymous mapping We also enforce that read-only sharing for anonymous pages is allowed (i.e. cow after fork). All other sharing must be for file pages. Page table check allows to protect and debug cases where "struct page" metadata became corrupted for some reason. For example, when refcnt or mapcount become invalid. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211221154650.1047963-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Paul Turner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sami Tolvanen Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/vm/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/vm/page_table_check.rst | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/page_table_check.rst (limited to 'Documentation/vm') diff --git a/Documentation/vm/index.rst b/Documentation/vm/index.rst index b1826ca2c576..932440805453 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/index.rst @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ algorithms. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, see the page_migration page_frags page_owner + page_table_check remap_file_pages slub split_page_table_lock diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_table_check.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_table_check.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..81f521ff7ea7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_table_check.rst @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +.. _page_table_check: + +================ +Page Table Check +================ + +Introduction +============ + +Page table check allows to hardern the kernel by ensuring that some types of +the memory corruptions are prevented. + +Page table check performs extra verifications at the time when new pages become +accessible from the userspace by getting their page table entries (PTEs PMDs +etc.) added into the table. + +In case of detected corruption, the kernel is crashed. There is a small +performance and memory overhead associated with the page table check. Therefore, +it is disabled by default, but can be optionally enabled on systems where the +extra hardening outweighs the performance costs. Also, because page table check +is synchronous, it can help with debugging double map memory corruption issues, +by crashing kernel at the time wrong mapping occurs instead of later which is +often the case with memory corruptions bugs. + +Double mapping detection logic +============================== + ++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+ +| Current Mapping | New mapping | Permissions | Rule | ++===================+===================+===================+==================+ +| Anonymous | Anonymous | Read | Allow | ++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+ +| Anonymous | Anonymous | Read / Write | Prohibit | ++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+ +| Anonymous | Named | Any | Prohibit | ++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+ +| Named | Anonymous | Any | Prohibit | ++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+ +| Named | Named | Any | Allow | ++-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+------------------+ + +Enabling Page Table Check +========================= + +Build kernel with: + +- PAGE_TABLE_CHECK=y + Note, it can only be enabled on platforms where ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK + is available. + +- Boot with 'page_table_check=on' kernel parameter. + +Optionally, build kernel with PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED in order to have page +table support without extra kernel parameter. -- cgit v1.2.3