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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===============================
+Software Guard eXtensions (SGX)
+===============================
+
+Overview
+========
+
+Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) hardware enables for user space applications
+to set aside private memory regions of code and data:
+
+* Privileged (ring-0) ENCLS functions orchestrate the construction of the
+ regions.
+* Unprivileged (ring-3) ENCLU functions allow an application to enter and
+ execute inside the regions.
+
+These memory regions are called enclaves. An enclave can be only entered at a
+fixed set of entry points. Each entry point can hold a single hardware thread
+at a time. While the enclave is loaded from a regular binary file by using
+ENCLS functions, only the threads inside the enclave can access its memory. The
+region is denied from outside access by the CPU, and encrypted before it leaves
+from LLC.
+
+The support can be determined by
+
+ ``grep sgx /proc/cpuinfo``
+
+SGX must both be supported in the processor and enabled by the BIOS. If SGX
+appears to be unsupported on a system which has hardware support, ensure
+support is enabled in the BIOS. If a BIOS presents a choice between "Enabled"
+and "Software Enabled" modes for SGX, choose "Enabled".
+
+Enclave Page Cache
+==================
+
+SGX utilizes an *Enclave Page Cache (EPC)* to store pages that are associated
+with an enclave. It is contained in a BIOS-reserved region of physical memory.
+Unlike pages used for regular memory, pages can only be accessed from outside of
+the enclave during enclave construction with special, limited SGX instructions.
+
+Only a CPU executing inside an enclave can directly access enclave memory.
+However, a CPU executing inside an enclave may access normal memory outside the
+enclave.
+
+The kernel manages enclave memory similar to how it treats device memory.
+
+Enclave Page Types
+------------------
+
+**SGX Enclave Control Structure (SECS)**
+ Enclave's address range, attributes and other global data are defined
+ by this structure.
+
+**Regular (REG)**
+ Regular EPC pages contain the code and data of an enclave.
+
+**Thread Control Structure (TCS)**
+ Thread Control Structure pages define the entry points to an enclave and
+ track the execution state of an enclave thread.
+
+**Version Array (VA)**
+ Version Array pages contain 512 slots, each of which can contain a version
+ number for a page evicted from the EPC.
+
+Enclave Page Cache Map
+----------------------
+
+The processor tracks EPC pages in a hardware metadata structure called the
+*Enclave Page Cache Map (EPCM)*. The EPCM contains an entry for each EPC page
+which describes the owning enclave, access rights and page type among the other
+things.
+
+EPCM permissions are separate from the normal page tables. This prevents the
+kernel from, for instance, allowing writes to data which an enclave wishes to
+remain read-only. EPCM permissions may only impose additional restrictions on
+top of normal x86 page permissions.
+
+For all intents and purposes, the SGX architecture allows the processor to
+invalidate all EPCM entries at will. This requires that software be prepared to
+handle an EPCM fault at any time. In practice, this can happen on events like
+power transitions when the ephemeral key that encrypts enclave memory is lost.
+
+Application interface
+=====================
+
+Enclave build functions
+-----------------------
+
+In addition to the traditional compiler and linker build process, SGX has a
+separate enclave “build” process. Enclaves must be built before they can be
+executed (entered). The first step in building an enclave is opening the
+**/dev/sgx_enclave** device. Since enclave memory is protected from direct
+access, special privileged instructions are then used to copy data into enclave
+pages and establish enclave page permissions.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c
+ :functions: sgx_ioc_enclave_create
+ sgx_ioc_enclave_add_pages
+ sgx_ioc_enclave_init
+ sgx_ioc_enclave_provision
+
+Enclave runtime management
+--------------------------
+
+Systems supporting SGX2 additionally support changes to initialized
+enclaves: modifying enclave page permissions and type, and dynamically
+adding and removing of enclave pages. When an enclave accesses an address
+within its address range that does not have a backing page then a new
+regular page will be dynamically added to the enclave. The enclave is
+still required to run EACCEPT on the new page before it can be used.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ioctl.c
+ :functions: sgx_ioc_enclave_restrict_permissions
+ sgx_ioc_enclave_modify_types
+ sgx_ioc_enclave_remove_pages
+
+Enclave vDSO
+------------
+
+Entering an enclave can only be done through SGX-specific EENTER and ERESUME
+functions, and is a non-trivial process. Because of the complexity of
+transitioning to and from an enclave, enclaves typically utilize a library to
+handle the actual transitions. This is roughly analogous to how glibc
+implementations are used by most applications to wrap system calls.
+
+Another crucial characteristic of enclaves is that they can generate exceptions
+as part of their normal operation that need to be handled in the enclave or are
+unique to SGX.
+
+Instead of the traditional signal mechanism to handle these exceptions, SGX
+can leverage special exception fixup provided by the vDSO. The kernel-provided
+vDSO function wraps low-level transitions to/from the enclave like EENTER and
+ERESUME. The vDSO function intercepts exceptions that would otherwise generate
+a signal and return the fault information directly to its caller. This avoids
+the need to juggle signal handlers.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sgx.h
+ :functions: vdso_sgx_enter_enclave_t
+
+ksgxd
+=====
+
+SGX support includes a kernel thread called *ksgxd*.
+
+EPC sanitization
+----------------
+
+ksgxd is started when SGX initializes. Enclave memory is typically ready
+for use when the processor powers on or resets. However, if SGX has been in
+use since the reset, enclave pages may be in an inconsistent state. This might
+occur after a crash and kexec() cycle, for instance. At boot, ksgxd
+reinitializes all enclave pages so that they can be allocated and re-used.
+
+The sanitization is done by going through EPC address space and applying the
+EREMOVE function to each physical page. Some enclave pages like SECS pages have
+hardware dependencies on other pages which prevents EREMOVE from functioning.
+Executing two EREMOVE passes removes the dependencies.
+
+Page reclaimer
+--------------
+
+Similar to the core kswapd, ksgxd, is responsible for managing the
+overcommitment of enclave memory. If the system runs out of enclave memory,
+*ksgxd* “swaps” enclave memory to normal memory.
+
+Launch Control
+==============
+
+SGX provides a launch control mechanism. After all enclave pages have been
+copied, kernel executes EINIT function, which initializes the enclave. Only after
+this the CPU can execute inside the enclave.
+
+EINIT function takes an RSA-3072 signature of the enclave measurement. The function
+checks that the measurement is correct and signature is signed with the key
+hashed to the four **IA32_SGXLEPUBKEYHASH{0, 1, 2, 3}** MSRs representing the
+SHA256 of a public key.
+
+Those MSRs can be configured by the BIOS to be either readable or writable.
+Linux supports only writable configuration in order to give full control to the
+kernel on launch control policy. Before calling EINIT function, the driver sets
+the MSRs to match the enclave's signing key.
+
+Encryption engines
+==================
+
+In order to conceal the enclave data while it is out of the CPU package, the
+memory controller has an encryption engine to transparently encrypt and decrypt
+enclave memory.
+
+In CPUs prior to Ice Lake, the Memory Encryption Engine (MEE) is used to
+encrypt pages leaving the CPU caches. MEE uses a n-ary Merkle tree with root in
+SRAM to maintain integrity of the encrypted data. This provides integrity and
+anti-replay protection but does not scale to large memory sizes because the time
+required to update the Merkle tree grows logarithmically in relation to the
+memory size.
+
+CPUs starting from Icelake use Total Memory Encryption (TME) in the place of
+MEE. TME-based SGX implementations do not have an integrity Merkle tree, which
+means integrity and replay-attacks are not mitigated. B, it includes
+additional changes to prevent cipher text from being returned and SW memory
+aliases from being created.
+
+DMA to enclave memory is blocked by range registers on both MEE and TME systems
+(SDM section 41.10).
+
+Usage Models
+============
+
+Shared Library
+--------------
+
+Sensitive data and the code that acts on it is partitioned from the application
+into a separate library. The library is then linked as a DSO which can be loaded
+into an enclave. The application can then make individual function calls into
+the enclave through special SGX instructions. A run-time within the enclave is
+configured to marshal function parameters into and out of the enclave and to
+call the correct library function.
+
+Application Container
+---------------------
+
+An application may be loaded into a container enclave which is specially
+configured with a library OS and run-time which permits the application to run.
+The enclave run-time and library OS work together to execute the application
+when a thread enters the enclave.
+
+Impact of Potential Kernel SGX Bugs
+===================================
+
+EPC leaks
+---------
+
+When EPC page leaks happen, a WARNING like this is shown in dmesg:
+
+"EREMOVE returned ... and an EPC page was leaked. SGX may become unusable..."
+
+This is effectively a kernel use-after-free of an EPC page, and due
+to the way SGX works, the bug is detected at freeing. Rather than
+adding the page back to the pool of available EPC pages, the kernel
+intentionally leaks the page to avoid additional errors in the future.
+
+When this happens, the kernel will likely soon leak more EPC pages, and
+SGX will likely become unusable because the memory available to SGX is
+limited. However, while this may be fatal to SGX, the rest of the kernel
+is unlikely to be impacted and should continue to work.
+
+As a result, when this happpens, user should stop running any new
+SGX workloads, (or just any new workloads), and migrate all valuable
+workloads. Although a machine reboot can recover all EPC memory, the bug
+should be reported to Linux developers.
+
+
+Virtual EPC
+===========
+
+The implementation has also a virtual EPC driver to support SGX enclaves
+in guests. Unlike the SGX driver, an EPC page allocated by the virtual
+EPC driver doesn't have a specific enclave associated with it. This is
+because KVM doesn't track how a guest uses EPC pages.
+
+As a result, the SGX core page reclaimer doesn't support reclaiming EPC
+pages allocated to KVM guests through the virtual EPC driver. If the
+user wants to deploy SGX applications both on the host and in guests
+on the same machine, the user should reserve enough EPC (by taking out
+total virtual EPC size of all SGX VMs from the physical EPC size) for
+host SGX applications so they can run with acceptable performance.
+
+Architectural behavior is to restore all EPC pages to an uninitialized
+state also after a guest reboot. Because this state can be reached only
+through the privileged ``ENCLS[EREMOVE]`` instruction, ``/dev/sgx_vepc``
+provides the ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL`` ioctl to execute the instruction
+on all pages in the virtual EPC.
+
+``EREMOVE`` can fail for three reasons. Userspace must pay attention
+to expected failures and handle them as follows:
+
+1. Page removal will always fail when any thread is running in the
+ enclave to which the page belongs. In this case the ioctl will
+ return ``EBUSY`` independent of whether it has successfully removed
+ some pages; userspace can avoid these failures by preventing execution
+ of any vcpu which maps the virtual EPC.
+
+2. Page removal will cause a general protection fault if two calls to
+ ``EREMOVE`` happen concurrently for pages that refer to the same
+ "SECS" metadata pages. This can happen if there are concurrent
+ invocations to ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL``, or if a ``/dev/sgx_vepc``
+ file descriptor in the guest is closed at the same time as
+ ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL``; it will also be reported as ``EBUSY``.
+ This can be avoided in userspace by serializing calls to the ioctl()
+ and to close(), but in general it should not be a problem.
+
+3. Finally, page removal will fail for SECS metadata pages which still
+ have child pages. Child pages can be removed by executing
+ ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL`` on all ``/dev/sgx_vepc`` file descriptors
+ mapped into the guest. This means that the ioctl() must be called
+ twice: an initial set of calls to remove child pages and a subsequent
+ set of calls to remove SECS pages. The second set of calls is only
+ required for those mappings that returned a nonzero value from the
+ first call. It indicates a bug in the kernel or the userspace client
+ if any of the second round of ``SGX_IOC_VEPC_REMOVE_ALL`` calls has
+ a return code other than 0.