[PATCH v5 5/8] powerpc/64s: Introduce temporary mm for Radix MMU

Christopher M. Riedl cmr at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jul 13 15:31:10 AEST 2021


x86 supports the notion of a temporary mm which restricts access to
temporary PTEs to a single CPU. A temporary mm is useful for situations
where a CPU needs to perform sensitive operations (such as patching a
STRICT_KERNEL_RWX kernel) requiring temporary mappings without exposing
said mappings to other CPUs. Another benefit is that other CPU TLBs do
not need to be flushed when the temporary mm is torn down.

Mappings in the temporary mm can be set in the userspace portion of the
address-space.

Interrupts must be disabled while the temporary mm is in use. HW
breakpoints, which may have been set by userspace as watchpoints on
addresses now within the temporary mm, are saved and disabled when
loading the temporary mm. The HW breakpoints are restored when unloading
the temporary mm. All HW breakpoints are indiscriminately disabled while
the temporary mm is in use.

Based on x86 implementation:

commit cefa929c034e
("x86/mm: Introduce temporary mm structs")

Signed-off-by: Christopher M. Riedl <cmr at linux.ibm.com>

---

v5:  * Drop support for using a temporary mm on Book3s64 Hash MMU.

v4:  * Pass the prev mm instead of NULL to switch_mm_irqs_off() when
       using/unusing the temp mm as suggested by Jann Horn to keep
       the context.active counter in-sync on mm/nohash.
     * Disable SLB preload in the temporary mm when initializing the
       temp_mm struct.
     * Include asm/debug.h header to fix build issue with
       ppc44x_defconfig.
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c    |  5 +++
 arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h
index 86a14736c76c3..dfd82635ea8b3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ static inline int debugger_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs) { return 0; }
 #endif
 
 void __set_breakpoint(int nr, struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk);
+void __get_breakpoint(int nr, struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk);
 bool ppc_breakpoint_available(void);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
 extern void do_send_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 185beb2905801..a0776200772e8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -865,6 +865,11 @@ static inline int set_breakpoint_8xx(struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+void __get_breakpoint(int nr, struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
+{
+	memcpy(brk, this_cpu_ptr(&current_brk[nr]), sizeof(*brk));
+}
+
 void __set_breakpoint(int nr, struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
 {
 	memcpy(this_cpu_ptr(&current_brk[nr]), brk, sizeof(*brk));
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index 54b6157d44e95..3122d8e4cc013 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 #include <asm/code-patching.h>
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 #include <asm/inst.h>
+#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
+#include <asm/debug.h>
+#include <asm/tlb.h>
 
 static int __patch_instruction(u32 *exec_addr, struct ppc_inst instr, u32 *patch_addr)
 {
@@ -45,6 +48,59 @@ int raw_patch_instruction(u32 *addr, struct ppc_inst instr)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
+
+struct temp_mm {
+	struct mm_struct *temp;
+	struct mm_struct *prev;
+	struct arch_hw_breakpoint brk[HBP_NUM_MAX];
+};
+
+static inline void init_temp_mm(struct temp_mm *temp_mm, struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	/* We currently only support temporary mm on the Book3s64 Radix MMU */
+	WARN_ON(!radix_enabled());
+
+	temp_mm->temp = mm;
+	temp_mm->prev = NULL;
+	memset(&temp_mm->brk, 0, sizeof(temp_mm->brk));
+}
+
+static inline void use_temporary_mm(struct temp_mm *temp_mm)
+{
+	lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
+
+	temp_mm->prev = current->active_mm;
+	switch_mm_irqs_off(temp_mm->prev, temp_mm->temp, current);
+
+	WARN_ON(!mm_is_thread_local(temp_mm->temp));
+
+	if (ppc_breakpoint_available()) {
+		struct arch_hw_breakpoint null_brk = {0};
+		int i = 0;
+
+		for (; i < nr_wp_slots(); ++i) {
+			__get_breakpoint(i, &temp_mm->brk[i]);
+			if (temp_mm->brk[i].type != 0)
+				__set_breakpoint(i, &null_brk);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+static inline void unuse_temporary_mm(struct temp_mm *temp_mm)
+{
+	lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
+
+	switch_mm_irqs_off(temp_mm->temp, temp_mm->prev, current);
+
+	if (ppc_breakpoint_available()) {
+		int i = 0;
+
+		for (; i < nr_wp_slots(); ++i)
+			if (temp_mm->brk[i].type != 0)
+				__set_breakpoint(i, &temp_mm->brk[i]);
+	}
+}
+
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vm_struct *, text_poke_area);
 
 #if IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_LKDTM)
-- 
2.26.1



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