Re: [PATCHv5 09/19] x86/mm: Preserve KeyID on pte_modify() and pgprot_modify()

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Jul 18 2018 - 19:30:44 EST


On 07/17/2018 04:20 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> An encrypted VMA will have KeyID stored in vma->vm_page_prot. This way
> we don't need to do anything special to setup encrypted page table
> entries

We don't do anything special for protection keys, either. They just
work too.

> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
> index 99fff853c944..3731f7e08757 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
> @@ -120,8 +120,21 @@
> * protection key is treated like _PAGE_RW, for
> * instance, and is *not* included in this mask since
> * pte_modify() does modify it.
> + *
> + * They include the physical address and the memory encryption keyID.
> + * The paddr and the keyID never occupy the same bits at the same time.
> + * But, a given bit might be used for the keyID on one system and used for
> + * the physical address on another. As an optimization, we manage them in
> + * one unit here since their combination always occupies the same hardware
> + * bits. PTE_PFN_MASK_MAX stores combined mask.
> + *
> + * Cast PAGE_MASK to a signed type so that it is sign-extended if
> + * virtual addresses are 32-bits but physical addresses are larger
> + * (ie, 32-bit PAE).
> */

Could you please make the comment block consistent? You're a lot wider
than the comment above.

> -#define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT | \
> +#define PTE_PFN_MASK_MAX \
> + (((signed long)PAGE_MASK) & ((1ULL << __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT) - 1))
> +#define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PTE_PFN_MASK_MAX | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT | \
> _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY | \
> _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY)

Man, I'm not a fan of this. This saves us from consuming 6 VM_HIGH bits
(which we are not short on). But, at the cost of complexity.

Protection keys eat up PTE space and have an interface called
pkey_mprotect(). MKTME KeyIDs take up PTE space and will probably have
an interface called something_mprotect(). Yet, the implementations are
going to be _very_ different with pkeys being excluded from
_PAGE_CHG_MASK and KeyIDs being included.

I think you're saved here because we don't _actually_ do pte_modify() on
an existing PTE: we blow the old one away upon encrypted_mprotect() and
replace the PTE with a new one.

But, this is incompatible with any case where we want to change the
KeyID and keep the old PTE target. With AES-XTS, I guess this is a safe
assumption, but it's worrying.

Are there scenarios where we want to keep PTE contents, but change the
KeyID?