feat: add --allow-msr-write, no longer write by default (#385), detect when writing is denied

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Stéphane Lesimple 2022-03-23 11:12:37 +01:00
parent ee266d43b7
commit 2a5b965b98
1 changed files with 61 additions and 26 deletions

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@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ show_usage()
--hw-only only check for CPU information, don't check for any variant
--no-hw skip CPU information and checks, if you're inspecting a kernel not to be run on this host
--vmm [auto,yes,no] override the detection of the presence of a hypervisor, default: auto
--allow-msr-write allow probing for write-only MSRs, this might produce kernel logs or be blocked by your system
--cpu [#,all] interact with CPUID and MSR of CPU core number #, or all (default: CPU core 0)
--update-fwdb update our local copy of the CPU microcodes versions database (using the awesome
MCExtractor project and the Intel firmwares GitHub repository)
@ -157,6 +158,7 @@ opt_arch_prefix=''
opt_hw_only=0
opt_no_hw=0
opt_vmm=-1
opt_allow_msr_write=0
opt_cpu=0
opt_explain=0
opt_paranoid=0
@ -1047,6 +1049,9 @@ while [ -n "${1:-}" ]; do
elif [ "$1" = "--no-hw" ]; then
opt_no_hw=1
shift
elif [ "$1" = "--allow-msr-write" ]; then
opt_allow_msr_write=1
shift
elif [ "$1" = "--cpu" ]; then
opt_cpu=$2
if [ "$opt_cpu" != all ]; then
@ -2497,6 +2502,7 @@ write_msr_one_core()
return $WRITE_MSR_RET_ERR
fi
_write_denied=0
if [ "$os" != Linux ]; then
cpucontrol -m "$_msr=0" "/dev/cpuctl$_core" >/dev/null 2>&1; ret=$?
else
@ -2509,15 +2515,23 @@ write_msr_one_core()
elif command -v wrmsr >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ "${SMC_NO_WRMSR:-}" != 1 ]; then
_debug "write_msr: using wrmsr"
wrmsr $_msr_dec 0 2>/dev/null; ret=$?
# ret=4: msr doesn't exist, ret=127: msr.allow_writes=off
[ "$ret" = 127 ] && _write_denied=1
# or fallback to dd if it supports seek_bytes, we prefer it over perl because we can tell the difference between EPERM and EIO
elif dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/null bs=8 count=1 seek="$_msr_dec" oflag=seek_bytes 2>/dev/null && [ "${SMC_NO_DD:-}" != 1 ]; then
_debug "write_msr: using dd"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cpu/"$_core"/msr bs=8 count=1 seek="$_msr_dec" oflag=seek_bytes 2>/dev/null; ret=$?
# if it failed, inspect stderrto look for EPERM
if [ "$ret" != 0 ]; then
if dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cpu/"$_core"/msr bs=8 count=1 seek="$_msr_dec" oflag=seek_bytes 2>&1 | grep -qF 'Operation not permitted'; then
_write_denied=1
fi
fi
# or if we have perl, use it, any 5.x version will work
elif command -v perl >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ "${SMC_NO_PERL:-}" != 1 ]; then
_debug "write_msr: using perl"
ret=1
perl -e "open(M,'>','/dev/cpu/$_core/msr') and seek(M,$_msr_dec,0) and exit(syswrite(M,pack('H16',0)))"; [ $? -eq 8 ] && ret=0
# fallback to dd if it supports seek_bytes
elif dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/null bs=8 count=1 seek="$_msr_dec" oflag=seek_bytes 2>/dev/null; then
_debug "write_msr: using dd"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cpu/"$_core"/msr bs=8 count=1 seek="$_msr_dec" oflag=seek_bytes 2>/dev/null; ret=$?
else
_debug "write_msr: got no wrmsr, perl or recent enough dd!"
mockme=$(printf "%b\n%b" "$mockme" "SMC_MOCK_WRMSR_${_msr}_RET=$WRITE_MSR_RET_ERR")
@ -2531,7 +2545,15 @@ write_msr_one_core()
# when this happens, any write will fail and dmesg will have a msg printed "msr: Direct access to MSR"
# * A version of this patch also made it to vanilla in 5.4+, in that case the message is: 'raw MSR access is restricted'
# * we don't use dmesg_grep() because we don't care if dmesg is truncated here, as the message has just been printed
if dmesg | grep -qF "msr: Direct access to MSR"; then
# yet more recent versions of the msr module can be set to msr.allow_writes=off, in which case no dmesg message is printed,
# but the write fails
if [ "$_write_denied" = 1 ]; then
_debug "write_msr: writing to msr has been denied"
mockme=$(printf "%b\n%b" "$mockme" "SMC_MOCK_WRMSR_${_msr}_RET=$WRITE_MSR_RET_LOCKDOWN")
msr_locked_down=1
write_msr_msg="your kernel is configured to deny writes to MSRs from user space"
return $WRITE_MSR_RET_LOCKDOWN
elif dmesg | grep -qF "msr: Direct access to MSR"; then
_debug "write_msr: locked down kernel detected (Red Hat / Fedora)"
mockme=$(printf "%b\n%b" "$mockme" "SMC_MOCK_WRMSR_${_msr}_RET=$WRITE_MSR_RET_LOCKDOWN")
msr_locked_down=1
@ -2544,6 +2566,7 @@ write_msr_one_core()
write_msr_msg="your kernel is locked down, please reboot with lockdown=none in the kernel cmdline and retry"
return $WRITE_MSR_RET_LOCKDOWN
fi
unset _write_denied
fi
fi
@ -2754,15 +2777,18 @@ check_cpu()
# IBPB
_info " * Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB)"
_info_nol " * PRED_CMD MSR is available: "
# the new MSR 'PRED_CTRL' is at offset 0x49, write-only
write_msr 0x49; ret=$?
if [ $ret = $WRITE_MSR_RET_OK ]; then
pstatus green YES
elif [ $ret = $WRITE_MSR_RET_KO ]; then
pstatus yellow NO
else
pstatus yellow UNKNOWN "$write_msr_msg"
if [ "$opt_allow_msr_write" = 1 ]; then
_info_nol " * PRED_CMD MSR is available: "
# the new MSR 'PRED_CTRL' is at offset 0x49, write-only
write_msr 0x49; ret=$?
if [ $ret = $WRITE_MSR_RET_OK ]; then
pstatus green YES
elif [ $ret = $WRITE_MSR_RET_KO ]; then
pstatus yellow NO
else
pstatus yellow UNKNOWN "$write_msr_msg"
fi
fi
_info_nol " * CPU indicates IBPB capability: "
@ -2912,18 +2938,21 @@ check_cpu()
fi
_info " * L1 data cache invalidation"
_info_nol " * FLUSH_CMD MSR is available: "
# the new MSR 'FLUSH_CMD' is at offset 0x10b, write-only
write_msr 0x10b; ret=$?
if [ $ret = $WRITE_MSR_RET_OK ]; then
pstatus green YES
cpu_flush_cmd=1
elif [ $ret = $WRITE_MSR_RET_KO ]; then
pstatus yellow NO
cpu_flush_cmd=0
else
pstatus yellow UNKNOWN "$write_msr_msg"
cpu_flush_cmd=-1
if [ "$opt_allow_msr_write" = 1 ]; then
_info_nol " * FLUSH_CMD MSR is available: "
# the new MSR 'FLUSH_CMD' is at offset 0x10b, write-only
write_msr 0x10b; ret=$?
if [ $ret = $WRITE_MSR_RET_OK ]; then
pstatus green YES
cpu_flush_cmd=1
elif [ $ret = $WRITE_MSR_RET_KO ]; then
pstatus yellow NO
cpu_flush_cmd=0
else
pstatus yellow UNKNOWN "$write_msr_msg"
cpu_flush_cmd=-1
fi
fi
# CPUID of L1D
@ -2940,6 +2969,12 @@ check_cpu()
cpuid_l1df=-1
fi
# if we weren't allowed to probe the write-only MSR but the CPUID
# bit says that it shoul be there, make the assumption that it is
if [ "$opt_allow_msr_write" != 1 ]; then
cpu_flush_cmd=$cpuid_l1df
fi
if is_intel; then
_info " * Microarchitectural Data Sampling"
_info_nol " * VERW instruction is available: "