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x86: support user address masking instead of non-speculative conditional

The Spectre-v1 mitigations made "access_ok()" much more expensive, since
it has to serialize execution with the test for a valid user address.

All the normal user copy routines avoid this by just masking the user
address with a data-dependent mask instead, but the fast
"unsafe_user_read()" kind of patterms that were supposed to be a fast
case got slowed down.

This introduces a notion of using

	src = masked_user_access_begin(src);

to do the user address sanity using a data-dependent mask instead of the
more traditional conditional

	if (user_read_access_begin(src, len)) {

model.

This model only works for dense accesses that start at 'src' and on
architectures that have a guard region that is guaranteed to fault in
between the user space and the kernel space area.

With this, the user access doesn't need to be manually checked, because
a bad address is guaranteed to fault (by some architecture masking
trick: on x86-64 this involves just turning an invalid user address into
all ones, since we don't map the top of address space).

This only converts a couple of examples for now.  Example x86-64 code
generation for loading two words from user space:

        stac
        mov    %rax,%rcx
        sar    $0x3f,%rcx
        or     %rax,%rcx
        mov    (%rcx),%r13
        mov    0x8(%rcx),%r14
        clac

where all the error handling and -EFAULT is now purely handled out of
line by the exception path.

Of course, if the micro-architecture does badly at 'clac' and 'stac',
the above is still pitifully slow.  But at least we did as well as we
could.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Linus Torvalds 2024-04-08 20:04:58 -07:00
parent 0c38364824
commit 2865baf540
5 changed files with 36 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ static inline unsigned long __untagged_addr_remote(struct mm_struct *mm,
*/
#define valid_user_address(x) ((__force long)(x) >= 0)
/*
* Masking the user address is an alternative to a conditional
* user_access_begin that can avoid the fencing. This only works
* for dense accesses starting at the address.
*/
#define mask_user_address(x) ((typeof(x))((long)(x)|((long)(x)>>63)))
#define masked_user_access_begin(x) ({ __uaccess_begin(); mask_user_address(x); })
/*
* User pointers can have tag bits on x86-64. This scheme tolerates
* arbitrary values in those bits rather then masking them off.

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@ -780,7 +780,9 @@ static inline int get_sigset_argpack(struct sigset_argpack *to,
{
// the path is hot enough for overhead of copy_from_user() to matter
if (from) {
if (!user_read_access_begin(from, sizeof(*from)))
if (can_do_masked_user_access())
from = masked_user_access_begin(from);
else if (!user_read_access_begin(from, sizeof(*from)))
return -EFAULT;
unsafe_get_user(to->p, &from->p, Efault);
unsafe_get_user(to->size, &from->size, Efault);

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@ -32,6 +32,13 @@
})
#endif
#ifdef masked_user_access_begin
#define can_do_masked_user_access() 1
#else
#define can_do_masked_user_access() 0
#define masked_user_access_begin(src) NULL
#endif
/*
* Architectures should provide two primitives (raw_copy_{to,from}_user())
* and get rid of their private instances of copy_{to,from}_user() and

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@ -120,6 +120,15 @@ long strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long count)
if (unlikely(count <= 0))
return 0;
if (can_do_masked_user_access()) {
long retval;
src = masked_user_access_begin(src);
retval = do_strncpy_from_user(dst, src, count, count);
user_read_access_end();
return retval;
}
max_addr = TASK_SIZE_MAX;
src_addr = (unsigned long)untagged_addr(src);
if (likely(src_addr < max_addr)) {

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@ -96,6 +96,15 @@ long strnlen_user(const char __user *str, long count)
if (unlikely(count <= 0))
return 0;
if (can_do_masked_user_access()) {
long retval;
str = masked_user_access_begin(str);
retval = do_strnlen_user(str, count, count);
user_read_access_end();
return retval;
}
max_addr = TASK_SIZE_MAX;
src_addr = (unsigned long)untagged_addr(str);
if (likely(src_addr < max_addr)) {