[tip: x86/sgx] x86/sgx: Drop racy follow_pfn() check

From: tip-bot2 for Daniel Vetter
Date: Fri Feb 05 2021 - 04:58:42 EST


The following commit has been merged into the x86/sgx branch of tip:

Commit-ID: dc9b7be557ca94301ea5c06c0d72307e642ffb18
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/dc9b7be557ca94301ea5c06c0d72307e642ffb18
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:45:19 +01:00
Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:45:11 +01:00

x86/sgx: Drop racy follow_pfn() check

PTE insertion is fundamentally racy, and this check doesn't do anything
useful. Quoting Sean:

"Yeah, it can be whacked. The original, never-upstreamed code asserted
that the resolved PFN matched the PFN being installed by the fault
handler as a sanity check on the SGX driver's EPC management. The
WARN assertion got dropped for whatever reason, leaving that useless
chunk."

Jason stumbled over this as a new user of follow_pfn(), and I'm trying
to get rid of unsafe callers of that function so it can be locked down
further.

This is independent prep work for the referenced patch series:

https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20201127164131.2244124-1-daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx/

Fixes: 947c6e11fa43 ("x86/sgx: Add ptrace() support for the SGX driver")
Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210204184519.2809313-1-daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c
index ee50a50..20a2dd5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c
@@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ static vm_fault_t sgx_vma_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
struct sgx_encl_page *entry;
unsigned long phys_addr;
struct sgx_encl *encl;
- unsigned long pfn;
vm_fault_t ret;

encl = vma->vm_private_data;
@@ -168,13 +167,6 @@ static vm_fault_t sgx_vma_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)

phys_addr = sgx_get_epc_phys_addr(entry->epc_page);

- /* Check if another thread got here first to insert the PTE. */
- if (!follow_pfn(vma, addr, &pfn)) {
- mutex_unlock(&encl->lock);
-
- return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
- }
-
ret = vmf_insert_pfn(vma, addr, PFN_DOWN(phys_addr));
if (ret != VM_FAULT_NOPAGE) {
mutex_unlock(&encl->lock);