Re: [PATCH v7 03/20] x86/virt/tdx: Disable TDX if X2APIC is not enabled

From: Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Date: Mon Nov 21 2022 - 17:00:25 EST




On 11/21/22 1:44 AM, Huang, Kai wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-11-20 at 19:51 -0800, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
>>
>> On 11/20/22 4:26 PM, Kai Huang wrote:
>>> The MMIO/xAPIC interface has some problems, most notably the APIC LEAK
>>
>> "some problems" looks more generic. May be we can be specific here. Like
>> it has security issues?
>
> It was quoted from below upstream commit id (I only kept the one that I quoted
> to save space):

Ok.

>
> commit b8d1d163604bd1e600b062fb00de5dc42baa355f (tag: x86_apic_for_v6.1_rc1,
> tip/x86/apic)
> Author: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Aug 16 16:19:42 2022 -0700
>
> x86/apic: Don't disable x2APIC if locked
>
> ....
>
> The MMIO/xAPIC interface has some problems, most notably the APIC LEAK
> [1]. This bug allows an attacker to use the APIC MMIO interface to
> extract data from the SGX enclave.
>
> ....
>
> [1]: https://aepicleak.com/aepicleak.pdf
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220816231943.1152579-1-daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>>
>>> [1]. This bug allows an attacker to use the APIC MMIO interface to
>>> extract data from the SGX enclave.
>>>
>>> TDX is not immune from this either. Early check X2APIC and disable TDX
>>> if X2APIC is not enabled, and make INTEL_TDX_HOST depend on X86_X2APIC.
>>>
>>> [1]: https://aepicleak.com/aepicleak.pdf
>>>
>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d6ffb489-7024-ff74-bd2f-d1e06573bb82@xxxxxxxxx/
>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ba80b303-31bf-d44a-b05d-5c0f83038798@xxxxxxxxx/
>>> Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> v6 -> v7:
>>> - Changed to use "Link" for the two lore links to get rid of checkpatch
>>> warning.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
>>> arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>>> index cced4ef3bfb2..dd333b46fafb 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>>> @@ -1958,6 +1958,7 @@ config INTEL_TDX_HOST
>>> depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
>>> depends on X86_64
>>> depends on KVM_INTEL
>>> + depends on X86_X2APIC
>>> help
>>> Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protects guest VMs from malicious
>>> host and certain physical attacks. This option enables necessary TDX
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c
>>> index 982d9c453b6b..8d943bdc8335 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c
>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>>> #include <linux/printk.h>
>>> #include <asm/msr-index.h>
>>> #include <asm/msr.h>
>>> +#include <asm/apic.h>
>>> #include <asm/tdx.h>
>>> #include "tdx.h"
>>>
>>> @@ -81,6 +82,16 @@ static int __init tdx_init(void)
>>> goto no_tdx;
>>> }
>>>
>>> + /*
>>> + * TDX requires X2APIC being enabled to prevent potential data
>>> + * leak via APIC MMIO registers. Just disable TDX if not using
>>> + * X2APIC.
>>
>> Remove the double space.
>
> Sorry which "double space"?

Before Just disable. It looked like double space. Is it not?

>
>>
>>> + */
>>> + if (!x2apic_enabled()) {
>>> + pr_info("Disable TDX as X2APIC is not enabled.\n");
>>
>> pr_warn()?
>
> Why?

Since it is a failure case, I thought pr_warn would be better. It is up
to you.

>

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer