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+From 3a2bc0721f7a7cb408570b01508a581ef69a2aac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 09:44:36 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH 047/103] x86/Documentation: Add PTI description
+
+commit 01c9b17bf673b05bb401b76ec763e9730ccf1376 upstream.
+
+Add some details about how PTI works, what some of the downsides
+are, and how to debug it when things go wrong.
+
+Also document the kernel parameter: 'pti/nopti'.
+
+Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
+Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
+Cc: Moritz Lipp <moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at>
+Cc: Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at>
+Cc: Michael Schwarz <michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at>
+Cc: Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at>
+Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
+Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
+Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
+Cc: Andi Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
+Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
+Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180105174436.1BC6FA2B@viggo.jf.intel.com
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 21 ++--
+ Documentation/x86/pti.txt | 186 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ 2 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
+ create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/pti.txt
+
+diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+index 9f04c53..3d53778 100644
+--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
++++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+@@ -2753,8 +2753,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
+
+ nojitter [IA-64] Disables jitter checking for ITC timers.
+
+- nopti [X86-64] Disable KAISER isolation of kernel from user.
+-
+ no-kvmclock [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized KVM clock driver
+
+ no-kvmapf [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
+@@ -3317,11 +3315,20 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
+ pt. [PARIDE]
+ See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
+
+- pti= [X86_64]
+- Control KAISER user/kernel address space isolation:
+- on - enable
+- off - disable
+- auto - default setting
++ pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
++ kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature
++ removes hardening, but improves performance of
++ system calls and interrupts.
++
++ on - unconditionally enable
++ off - unconditionally disable
++ auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
++ vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
++
++ Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
++
++ nopti [X86_64]
++ Equivalent to pti=off
+
+ pty.legacy_count=
+ [KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
+diff --git a/Documentation/x86/pti.txt b/Documentation/x86/pti.txt
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..d11eff6
+--- /dev/null
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+@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
++Overview
++========
++
++Page Table Isolation (pti, previously known as KAISER[1]) is a
++countermeasure against attacks on the shared user/kernel address
++space such as the "Meltdown" approach[2].
++
++To mitigate this class of attacks, we create an independent set of
++page tables for use only when running userspace applications. When
++the kernel is entered via syscalls, interrupts or exceptions, the
++page tables are switched to the full "kernel" copy. When the system
++switches back to user mode, the user copy is used again.
++
++The userspace page tables contain only a minimal amount of kernel
++data: only what is needed to enter/exit the kernel such as the
++entry/exit functions themselves and the interrupt descriptor table
++(IDT). There are a few strictly unnecessary things that get mapped
++such as the first C function when entering an interrupt (see
++comments in pti.c).
++
++This approach helps to ensure that side-channel attacks leveraging
++the paging structures do not function when PTI is enabled. It can be
++enabled by setting CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y at compile time.
++Once enabled at compile-time, it can be disabled at boot with the
++'nopti' or 'pti=' kernel parameters (see kernel-parameters.txt).
++
++Page Table Management
++=====================
++
++When PTI is enabled, the kernel manages two sets of page tables.
++The first set is very similar to the single set which is present in
++kernels without PTI. This includes a complete mapping of userspace
++that the kernel can use for things like copy_to_user().
++
++Although _complete_, the user portion of the kernel page tables is
++crippled by setting the NX bit in the top level. This ensures
++that any missed kernel->user CR3 switch will immediately crash
++userspace upon executing its first instruction.
++
++The userspace page tables map only the kernel data needed to enter
++and exit the kernel. This data is entirely contained in the 'struct
++cpu_entry_area' structure which is placed in the fixmap which gives
++each CPU's copy of the area a compile-time-fixed virtual address.
++
++For new userspace mappings, the kernel makes the entries in its
++page tables like normal. The only difference is when the kernel
++makes entries in the top (PGD) level. In addition to setting the
++entry in the main kernel PGD, a copy of the entry is made in the
++userspace page tables' PGD.
++
++This sharing at the PGD level also inherently shares all the lower
++layers of the page tables. This leaves a single, shared set of
++userspace page tables to manage. One PTE to lock, one set of
++accessed bits, dirty bits, etc...
++
++Overhead
++========
++
++Protection against side-channel attacks is important. But,
++this protection comes at a cost:
++
++1. Increased Memory Use
++ a. Each process now needs an order-1 PGD instead of order-0.
++ (Consumes an additional 4k per process).
++ b. The 'cpu_entry_area' structure must be 2MB in size and 2MB
++ aligned so that it can be mapped by setting a single PMD
++ entry. This consumes nearly 2MB of RAM once the kernel
++ is decompressed, but no space in the kernel image itself.
++
++2. Runtime Cost
++ a. CR3 manipulation to switch between the page table copies
++ must be done at interrupt, syscall, and exception entry
++ and exit (it can be skipped when the kernel is interrupted,
++ though.) Moves to CR3 are on the order of a hundred
++ cycles, and are required at every entry and exit.
++ b. A "trampoline" must be used for SYSCALL entry. This
++ trampoline depends on a smaller set of resources than the
++ non-PTI SYSCALL entry code, so requires mapping fewer
++ things into the userspace page tables. The downside is
++ that stacks must be switched at entry time.
++ d. Global pages are disabled for all kernel structures not
++ mapped into both kernel and userspace page tables. This
++ feature of the MMU allows different processes to share TLB
++ entries mapping the kernel. Losing the feature means more
++ TLB misses after a context switch. The actual loss of
++ performance is very small, however, never exceeding 1%.
++ d. Process Context IDentifiers (PCID) is a CPU feature that
++ allows us to skip flushing the entire TLB when switching page
++ tables by setting a special bit in CR3 when the page tables
++ are changed. This makes switching the page tables (at context
++ switch, or kernel entry/exit) cheaper. But, on systems with
++ PCID support, the context switch code must flush both the user
++ and kernel entries out of the TLB. The user PCID TLB flush is
++ deferred until the exit to userspace, minimizing the cost.
++ See intel.com/sdm for the gory PCID/INVPCID details.
++ e. The userspace page tables must be populated for each new
++ process. Even without PTI, the shared kernel mappings
++ are created by copying top-level (PGD) entries into each
++ new process. But, with PTI, there are now *two* kernel
++ mappings: one in the kernel page tables that maps everything
++ and one for the entry/exit structures. At fork(), we need to
++ copy both.
++ f. In addition to the fork()-time copying, there must also
++ be an update to the userspace PGD any time a set_pgd() is done
++ on a PGD used to map userspace. This ensures that the kernel
++ and userspace copies always map the same userspace
++ memory.
++ g. On systems without PCID support, each CR3 write flushes
++ the entire TLB. That means that each syscall, interrupt
++ or exception flushes the TLB.
++ h. INVPCID is a TLB-flushing instruction which allows flushing
++ of TLB entries for non-current PCIDs. Some systems support
++ PCIDs, but do not support INVPCID. On these systems, addresses
++ can only be flushed from the TLB for the current PCID. When
++ flushing a kernel address, we need to flush all PCIDs, so a
++ single kernel address flush will require a TLB-flushing CR3
++ write upon the next use of every PCID.
++
++Possible Future Work
++====================
++1. We can be more careful about not actually writing to CR3
++ unless its value is actually changed.
++2. Allow PTI to be enabled/disabled at runtime in addition to the
++ boot-time switching.
++
++Testing
++========
++
++To test stability of PTI, the following test procedure is recommended,
++ideally doing all of these in parallel:
++
++1. Set CONFIG_DEBUG_ENTRY=y
++2. Run several copies of all of the tools/testing/selftests/x86/ tests
++ (excluding MPX and protection_keys) in a loop on multiple CPUs for
++ several minutes. These tests frequently uncover corner cases in the
++ kernel entry code. In general, old kernels might cause these tests
++ themselves to crash, but they should never crash the kernel.
++3. Run the 'perf' tool in a mode (top or record) that generates many
++ frequent performance monitoring non-maskable interrupts (see "NMI"
++ in /proc/interrupts). This exercises the NMI entry/exit code which
++ is known to trigger bugs in code paths that did not expect to be
++ interrupted, including nested NMIs. Using "-c" boosts the rate of
++ NMIs, and using two -c with separate counters encourages nested NMIs
++ and less deterministic behavior.
++
++ while true; do perf record -c 10000 -e instructions,cycles -a sleep 10; done
++
++4. Launch a KVM virtual machine.
++5. Run 32-bit binaries on systems supporting the SYSCALL instruction.
++ This has been a lightly-tested code path and needs extra scrutiny.
++
++Debugging
++=========
++
++Bugs in PTI cause a few different signatures of crashes
++that are worth noting here.
++
++ * Failures of the selftests/x86 code. Usually a bug in one of the
++ more obscure corners of entry_64.S
++ * Crashes in early boot, especially around CPU bringup. Bugs
++ in the trampoline code or mappings cause these.
++ * Crashes at the first interrupt. Caused by bugs in entry_64.S,
++ like screwing up a page table switch. Also caused by
++ incorrectly mapping the IRQ handler entry code.
++ * Crashes at the first NMI. The NMI code is separate from main
++ interrupt handlers and can have bugs that do not affect
++ normal interrupts. Also caused by incorrectly mapping NMI
++ code. NMIs that interrupt the entry code must be very
++ careful and can be the cause of crashes that show up when
++ running perf.
++ * Kernel crashes at the first exit to userspace. entry_64.S
++ bugs, or failing to map some of the exit code.
++ * Crashes at first interrupt that interrupts userspace. The paths
++ in entry_64.S that return to userspace are sometimes separate
++ from the ones that return to the kernel.
++ * Double faults: overflowing the kernel stack because of page
++ faults upon page faults. Caused by touching non-pti-mapped
++ data in the entry code, or forgetting to switch to kernel
++ CR3 before calling into C functions which are not pti-mapped.
++ * Userspace segfaults early in boot, sometimes manifesting
++ as mount(8) failing to mount the rootfs. These have
++ tended to be TLB invalidation issues. Usually invalidating
++ the wrong PCID, or otherwise missing an invalidation.
++
++1. https://gruss.cc/files/kaiser.pdf
++2. https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf
+--
+2.7.4
+