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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cf1eeefdf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst @@ -0,0 +1,226 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=============== +Core Scheduling +=============== +Core scheduling support allows userspace to define groups of tasks that can +share a core. These groups can be specified either for security usecases (one +group of tasks don't trust another), or for performance usecases (some +workloads may benefit from running on the same core as they don't need the same +hardware resources of the shared core, or may prefer different cores if they +do share hardware resource needs). This document only describes the security +usecase. + +Security usecase +---------------- +A cross-HT attack involves the attacker and victim running on different Hyper +Threads of the same core. MDS and L1TF are examples of such attacks. The only +full mitigation of cross-HT attacks is to disable Hyper Threading (HT). Core +scheduling is a scheduler feature that can mitigate some (not all) cross-HT +attacks. It allows HT to be turned on safely by ensuring that only tasks in a +user-designated trusted group can share a core. This increase in core sharing +can also improve performance, however it is not guaranteed that performance +will always improve, though that is seen to be the case with a number of real +world workloads. In theory, core scheduling aims to perform at least as good as +when Hyper Threading is disabled. In practice, this is mostly the case though +not always: as synchronizing scheduling decisions across 2 or more CPUs in a +core involves additional overhead - especially when the system is lightly +loaded. When ``total_threads <= N_CPUS/2``, the extra overhead may cause core +scheduling to perform more poorly compared to SMT-disabled, where N_CPUS is the +total number of CPUs. Please measure the performance of your workloads always. + +Usage +----- +Core scheduling support is enabled via the ``CONFIG_SCHED_CORE`` config option. +Using this feature, userspace defines groups of tasks that can be co-scheduled +on the same core. The core scheduler uses this information to make sure that +tasks that are not in the same group never run simultaneously on a core, while +doing its best to satisfy the system's scheduling requirements. + +Core scheduling can be enabled via the ``PR_SCHED_CORE`` prctl interface. +This interface provides support for the creation of core scheduling groups, as +well as admission and removal of tasks from created groups:: + + #include <sys/prctl.h> + + int prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3, + unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5); + +option: + ``PR_SCHED_CORE`` + +arg2: + Command for operation, must be one off: + + - ``PR_SCHED_CORE_GET`` -- get core_sched cookie of ``pid``. + - ``PR_SCHED_CORE_CREATE`` -- create a new unique cookie for ``pid``. + - ``PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_TO`` -- push core_sched cookie to ``pid``. + - ``PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_FROM`` -- pull core_sched cookie from ``pid``. + +arg3: + ``pid`` of the task for which the operation applies. + +arg4: + ``pid_type`` for which the operation applies. It is one of + ``PR_SCHED_CORE_SCOPE_``-prefixed macro constants. For example, if arg4 + is ``PR_SCHED_CORE_SCOPE_THREAD_GROUP``, then the operation of this command + will be performed for all tasks in the task group of ``pid``. + +arg5: + userspace pointer to an unsigned long for storing the cookie returned by + ``PR_SCHED_CORE_GET`` command. Should be 0 for all other commands. + +In order for a process to push a cookie to, or pull a cookie from a process, it +is required to have the ptrace access mode: `PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS` to the +process. + +Building hierarchies of tasks +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The simplest way to build hierarchies of threads/processes which share a +cookie and thus a core is to rely on the fact that the core-sched cookie is +inherited across forks/clones and execs, thus setting a cookie for the +'initial' script/executable/daemon will place every spawned child in the +same core-sched group. + +Cookie Transferral +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Transferring a cookie between the current and other tasks is possible using +PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_FROM and PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_TO to inherit a cookie from a +specified task or a share a cookie with a task. In combination this allows a +simple helper program to pull a cookie from a task in an existing core +scheduling group and share it with already running tasks. + +Design/Implementation +--------------------- +Each task that is tagged is assigned a cookie internally in the kernel. As +mentioned in `Usage`_, tasks with the same cookie value are assumed to trust +each other and share a core. + +The basic idea is that, every schedule event tries to select tasks for all the +siblings of a core such that all the selected tasks running on a core are +trusted (same cookie) at any point in time. Kernel threads are assumed trusted. +The idle task is considered special, as it trusts everything and everything +trusts it. + +During a schedule() event on any sibling of a core, the highest priority task on +the sibling's core is picked and assigned to the sibling calling schedule(), if +the sibling has the task enqueued. For rest of the siblings in the core, +highest priority task with the same cookie is selected if there is one runnable +in their individual run queues. If a task with same cookie is not available, +the idle task is selected. Idle task is globally trusted. + +Once a task has been selected for all the siblings in the core, an IPI is sent to +siblings for whom a new task was selected. Siblings on receiving the IPI will +switch to the new task immediately. If an idle task is selected for a sibling, +then the sibling is considered to be in a `forced idle` state. I.e., it may +have tasks on its on runqueue to run, however it will still have to run idle. +More on this in the next section. + +Forced-idling of hyperthreads +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The scheduler tries its best to find tasks that trust each other such that all +tasks selected to be scheduled are of the highest priority in a core. However, +it is possible that some runqueues had tasks that were incompatible with the +highest priority ones in the core. Favoring security over fairness, one or more +siblings could be forced to select a lower priority task if the highest +priority task is not trusted with respect to the core wide highest priority +task. If a sibling does not have a trusted task to run, it will be forced idle +by the scheduler (idle thread is scheduled to run). + +When the highest priority task is selected to run, a reschedule-IPI is sent to +the sibling to force it into idle. This results in 4 cases which need to be +considered depending on whether a VM or a regular usermode process was running +on either HT:: + + HT1 (attack) HT2 (victim) + A idle -> user space user space -> idle + B idle -> user space guest -> idle + C idle -> guest user space -> idle + D idle -> guest guest -> idle + +Note that for better performance, we do not wait for the destination CPU +(victim) to enter idle mode. This is because the sending of the IPI would bring +the destination CPU immediately into kernel mode from user space, or VMEXIT +in the case of guests. At best, this would only leak some scheduler metadata +which may not be worth protecting. It is also possible that the IPI is received +too late on some architectures, but this has not been observed in the case of +x86. + +Trust model +~~~~~~~~~~~ +Core scheduling maintains trust relationships amongst groups of tasks by +assigning them a tag that is the same cookie value. +When a system with core scheduling boots, all tasks are considered to trust +each other. This is because the core scheduler does not have information about +trust relationships until userspace uses the above mentioned interfaces, to +communicate them. In other words, all tasks have a default cookie value of 0. +and are considered system-wide trusted. The forced-idling of siblings running +cookie-0 tasks is also avoided. + +Once userspace uses the above mentioned interfaces to group sets of tasks, tasks +within such groups are considered to trust each other, but do not trust those +outside. Tasks outside the group also don't trust tasks within. + +Limitations of core-scheduling +------------------------------ +Core scheduling tries to guarantee that only trusted tasks run concurrently on a +core. But there could be small window of time during which untrusted tasks run +concurrently or kernel could be running concurrently with a task not trusted by +kernel. + +IPI processing delays +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Core scheduling selects only trusted tasks to run together. IPI is used to notify +the siblings to switch to the new task. But there could be hardware delays in +receiving of the IPI on some arch (on x86, this has not been observed). This may +cause an attacker task to start running on a CPU before its siblings receive the +IPI. Even though cache is flushed on entry to user mode, victim tasks on siblings +may populate data in the cache and micro architectural buffers after the attacker +starts to run and this is a possibility for data leak. + +Open cross-HT issues that core scheduling does not solve +-------------------------------------------------------- +1. For MDS +~~~~~~~~~~ +Core scheduling cannot protect against MDS attacks between the siblings +running in user mode and the others running in kernel mode. Even though all +siblings run tasks which trust each other, when the kernel is executing +code on behalf of a task, it cannot trust the code running in the +sibling. Such attacks are possible for any combination of sibling CPU modes +(host or guest mode). + +2. For L1TF +~~~~~~~~~~~ +Core scheduling cannot protect against an L1TF guest attacker exploiting a +guest or host victim. This is because the guest attacker can craft invalid +PTEs which are not inverted due to a vulnerable guest kernel. The only +solution is to disable EPT (Extended Page Tables). + +For both MDS and L1TF, if the guest vCPU is configured to not trust each +other (by tagging separately), then the guest to guest attacks would go away. +Or it could be a system admin policy which considers guest to guest attacks as +a guest problem. + +Another approach to resolve these would be to make every untrusted task on the +system to not trust every other untrusted task. While this could reduce +parallelism of the untrusted tasks, it would still solve the above issues while +allowing system processes (trusted tasks) to share a core. + +3. Protecting the kernel (IRQ, syscall, VMEXIT) +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Unfortunately, core scheduling does not protect kernel contexts running on +sibling hyperthreads from one another. Prototypes of mitigations have been posted +to LKML to solve this, but it is debatable whether such windows are practically +exploitable, and whether the performance overhead of the prototypes are worth +it (not to mention, the added code complexity). + +Other Use cases +--------------- +The main use case for Core scheduling is mitigating the cross-HT vulnerabilities +with SMT enabled. There are other use cases where this feature could be used: + +- Isolating tasks that needs a whole core: Examples include realtime tasks, tasks + that uses SIMD instructions etc. +- Gang scheduling: Requirements for a group of tasks that needs to be scheduled + together could also be realized using core scheduling. One example is vCPUs of + a VM. |