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 <[email protected]>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:45:19 +01:00
Committer:     Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
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/[email protected]/

Fixes: 947c6e11fa43 ("x86/sgx: Add ptrace() support for the SGX driver")
Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
---
 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);

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