Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: Refuse W^X violations

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Wed Sep 21 2022 - 16:07:38 EST

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 12:18:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> x86 has STRICT_*_RWX, but not even a warning when someone violates it.
>
> Add this warning and fully refuse the transition.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I see the following crash when trying to boot qemu using images with
PAE enabled. I checked again after applying "x86/mm/32: Fix W^X detection
when page tables do not support NX", but that did not fix the problem.

Guenter

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[ 2.042861] CPA refuse W^X violation: 8000000000000063 -> 0000000000000063 range: 0x00000000c00a0000 - 0x00000000c00a0fff PFN a0
ILLOPC: cbc65efa: 0f 0b
[ 2.043267] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:600 __change_page_attr_set_clr+0xdca/0xdd0
[ 2.043743] Modules linked in:
[ 2.043978] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc6-next-20220921 #1
[ 2.044277] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 2.044572] EIP: __change_page_attr_set_clr+0xdca/0xdd0
[ 2.044751] Code: 10 8b 45 ac 89 7c 24 04 89 74 24 14 89 4c 24 1c 8d 8e ff 0f 00 00 89 4c 24 18 89 44 24 08 c7 04 24 44 67 08 cd e8 56 38 fb 00 <0f> 0b eb 83 66 90 55 89 e5 57 56 89 d6 53 89 c3 83 ec 58 31 d2 8b
[ 2.045179] EAX: 00000074 EBX: 000a0063 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000002
[ 2.045315] ESI: c00a0000 EDI: 00000063 EBP: c115fe4c ESP: c115fd34
[ 2.045445] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00000282
[ 2.045585] CR0: 80050033 CR2: ffbff000 CR3: 0d57c000 CR4: 000006f0
[ 2.046170] Call Trace:
[ 2.046631] ? __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x6c/0x640
[ 2.046768] ? _vm_unmap_aliases.part.0+0x1d8/0x1f0
[ 2.046923] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x2b/0x2b0
[ 2.047035] ? purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus+0x64/0x2c0
[ 2.047199] ? _vm_unmap_aliases.part.0+0x1d8/0x1f0
[ 2.047315] ? _vm_unmap_aliases.part.0+0x54/0x1f0
[ 2.047496] change_page_attr_set_clr+0x11d/0x2d0
[ 2.047738] set_memory_x+0x56/0x60
[ 2.047863] pci_pcbios_init+0xc8/0x28c
[ 2.047981] ? pcibios_resource_survey+0x63/0x63
[ 2.048152] pci_arch_init+0x3c/0x73
[ 2.048242] ? pcibios_resource_survey+0x63/0x63
[ 2.048340] do_one_initcall+0x4f/0x2e0
[ 2.048442] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0xf/0x11
[ 2.048578] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x41/0x70
[ 2.048684] ? trace_initcall_level+0x65/0xa6
[ 2.048805] kernel_init_freeable+0x210/0x264
[ 2.048908] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
[ 2.049002] kernel_init+0x15/0x110
[ 2.049211] ? schedule_tail_wrapper+0x9/0xc
[ 2.049312] ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x28
[ 2.049547] irq event stamp: 7715
[ 2.049633] hardirqs last enabled at (7723): [<cbce7119>] __up_console_sem+0x69/0x80
[ 2.049822] hardirqs last disabled at (7730): [<cbce70fd>] __up_console_sem+0x4d/0x80
[ 2.049972] softirqs last enabled at (7176): [<cbc29ac7>] call_on_stack+0x47/0x60
[ 2.050153] softirqs last disabled at (7167): [<cbc29ac7>] call_on_stack+0x47/0x60
[ 2.050307] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 2.050762] PCI: PCI BIOS area is rw and x. Use pci=nobios if you want it NX.
[ 2.051115] kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
[ 2.051115] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: c00fd2bf
[ 2.051115] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
[ 2.051115] #PF: error_code(0x0011) - permissions violation
[ 2.051115] *pdpt = 000000000d578001 *pde = 000000000dc18063 *pte = 80000000000fd063
[ 2.051115] Oops: 0011 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 2.051115] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.0.0-rc6-next-20220921 #1
[ 2.051115] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 2.051115] EIP: 0xc00fd2bf
[ 2.051115] Code: 06 1e 8c d0 8e d8 66 89 e3 66 0f b7 e4 66 89 e0 66 e8 43 e8 ff ff 66 89 dc 1f 07 66 5f 66 5e 66 5d 66 5b 66 5a 66 59 66 58 cf <9c> 3d 24 50 43 49 75 13 bb 00 00 0f 00 b9 00 00 01 00 ba 1d d2 00
[ 2.051115] EAX: 49435024 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: cd1a027f
[ 2.051115] ESI: 00000200 EDI: cd50e7f4 EBP: c115ff08 ESP: c115fee0
[ 2.051115] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00000046
[ 2.051115] CR0: 80050033 CR2: c00fd2bf CR3: 0d57c000 CR4: 000006f0
[ 2.051115] Call Trace:
[ 2.051115] ? pci_pcbios_init+0xfa/0x28c
[ 2.051115] ? pcibios_resource_survey+0x63/0x63
[ 2.051115] pci_arch_init+0x3c/0x73
[ 2.051115] ? pcibios_resource_survey+0x63/0x63
[ 2.051115] do_one_initcall+0x4f/0x2e0
[ 2.051115] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0xf/0x11
[ 2.051115] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x41/0x70
[ 2.051115] ? trace_initcall_level+0x65/0xa6
[ 2.051115] kernel_init_freeable+0x210/0x264
[ 2.051115] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
[ 2.051115] kernel_init+0x15/0x110
[ 2.051115] ? schedule_tail_wrapper+0x9/0xc
[ 2.051115] ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x28
[ 2.051115] Modules linked in:
[ 2.051115] CR2: 00000000c00fd2bf
[ 2.051115] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 2.051115] EIP: 0xc00fd2bf
[ 2.051115] Code: 06 1e 8c d0 8e d8 66 89 e3 66 0f b7 e4 66 89 e0 66 e8 43 e8 ff ff 66 89 dc 1f 07 66 5f 66 5e 66 5d 66 5b 66 5a 66 59 66 58 cf <9c> 3d 24 50 43 49 75 13 bb 00 00 0f 00 b9 00 00 01 00 ba 1d d2 00
[ 2.051115] EAX: 49435024 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: cd1a027f
[ 2.051115] ESI: 00000200 EDI: cd50e7f4 EBP: c115ff08 ESP: c115fee0
[ 2.051115] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00000046
[ 2.051115] CR0: 80050033 CR2: c00fd2bf CR3: 0d57c000 CR4: 000006f0
[ 2.051426] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009

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