KAISER: Kernel Address Isolation

This patch introduces our implementation of KAISER (Kernel Address Isolation to
have Side-channels Efficiently Removed), a kernel isolation technique to close
hardware side channels on kernel address information.

More information about the patch can be found on:

        https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER

From: Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at>
From: Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at>
Subject: [RFC, PATCH] x86_64: KAISER - do not map kernel in user mode
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:26:50 +0200
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149390087310405&w=2
Kaiser-4.10-SHA1: c4b1831d44c6144d3762ccc72f0c4e71a0c713e5

To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
To: <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: <clementine.maurice@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: <moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: Michael Schwarz <michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <anders.fogh@gdata-adan.de>

After several recent works [1,2,3] KASLR on x86_64 was basically
considered dead by many researchers. We have been working on an
efficient but effective fix for this problem and found that not mapping
the kernel space when running in user mode is the solution to this
problem [4] (the corresponding paper [5] will be presented at ESSoS17).

With this RFC patch we allow anybody to configure their kernel with the
flag CONFIG_KAISER to add our defense mechanism.

If there are any questions we would love to answer them.
We also appreciate any comments!

Cheers,
Daniel (+ the KAISER team from Graz University of Technology)

[1] http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a191.pdf
[2] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Fogh-Using-Undocumented-CPU-Behaviour-To-See-Into-Kernel-Mode-And-Break-KASLR-In-The-Process.pdf
[3] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Jang-Breaking-Kernel-Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-KASLR-With-Intel-TSX.pdf
[4] https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER
[5] https://gruss.cc/files/kaiser.pdf

(cherry picked from Change-Id: I0eb000c33290af01fc4454ca0c701d00f1d30b1d)

Conflicts:
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S (not in this tree)
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S (patched instead of that)
arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S (not in this tree)
arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S (patched instead of that)
arch/x86/include/asm/hw_irq.h
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
arch/x86/kernel/process.c
arch/x86/mm/Makefile
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
init/main.c

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
[bwh: Folded in the follow-up patches from Hugh:
 - kaiser: merged update
 - kaiser: do not set _PAGE_NX on pgd_none
 - kaiser: stack map PAGE_SIZE at THREAD_SIZE-PAGE_SIZE
 - kaiser: fix build and FIXME in alloc_ldt_struct()
 - kaiser: KAISER depends on SMP
 - kaiser: fix regs to do_nmi() ifndef CONFIG_KAISER
 - kaiser: fix perf crashes
 - kaiser: ENOMEM if kaiser_pagetable_walk() NULL
 - kaiser: tidied up asm/kaiser.h somewhat
 - kaiser: tidied up kaiser_add/remove_mapping slightly
 - kaiser: kaiser_remove_mapping() move along the pgd
 - kaiser: align addition to x86/mm/Makefile
 - kaiser: cleanups while trying for gold link
 - kaiser: name that 0x1000 KAISER_SHADOW_PGD_OFFSET
 - kaiser: delete KAISER_REAL_SWITCH option
 - kaiser: vmstat show NR_KAISERTABLE as nr_overhead
 - kaiser: enhanced by kernel and user PCIDs
 - kaiser: load_new_mm_cr3() let SWITCH_USER_CR3 flush user
 - kaiser: PCID 0 for kernel and 128 for user
 - kaiser: x86_cr3_pcid_noflush and x86_cr3_pcid_user
 - kaiser: paranoid_entry pass cr3 need to paranoid_exit
 - kaiser: _pgd_alloc() without __GFP_REPEAT to avoid stalls
 - kaiser: fix unlikely error in alloc_ldt_struct()
 - kaiser: drop is_atomic arg to kaiser_pagetable_walk()
 Backported to 3.16:
 - Add missing #include in arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c
 - Use variable PEBS buffer size since we have "perf/x86/intel: Use PAGE_SIZE
   for PEBS buffer size on Core2"
 - Renumber X86_FEATURE_INVPCID_SINGLE to avoid collision
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 8c0c76083562..6c70f6647907 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 	"nr_slab_unreclaimable",
 	"nr_page_table_pages",
 	"nr_kernel_stack",
+	"nr_overhead",
 	"nr_unstable",
 	"nr_bounce",
 	"nr_vmscan_write",