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Re: [Xen-devel] read-only pagetable entries
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
At 21:29 -0500 on 19 Jun (1308518969), Srujan Kotikela wrote:
> I am trying to mark certain page-table entries (pte) of a guest as read-only
> by the guest operating system (complete control by xen). If this pte is
> ever to be changed to READ/WRITE, it should be done by a custom hypercall
> (called only by a special process). The guest os's request to mark this pte
> READ/WRITE should be denied/ignored by xen.
>
> The approach I am planning is, obtain the (guest) virtual address from the
> process and pass to xen through hypercall, obtain cr3 from the vcpu, compute
> PDE (page directory entry), obtain PT (Page Table) base address, compute
> PTE's (guest) physical address. Then translate PFN to MFN and update the
> entries to READ-ONLY.
>
> However, I feel this process is not sufficient to restrict the OS from
> changing it.
It's certainly not enough to stop the OS from changing it by itself.
You'd need to make that PTE read-only _and_ make all mappings of the PTE
itself read-only _and_ make sure there are no new r/w mappings of it.
I think the right thing to do is to translate the VA you start with into
a PFN and then just call p2m_change_type to mark that PFN read-only.
That way, the PTE the guest sees will still be r/w but all writes to the
address will be dropped. (That assumes this is a HVM guest, by the
way).
Cheers,
Tim.
--
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd. (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)
Hi,
I am trying to see the working of "p2m_change_type". For this I am
passing the PFN of a variable (computed using
virt_to_pfn(&variable)) in a kernel module. Then this PFN is being
passed to VMM through a hypercall (from a HVM guest). In the hypercall handler, I have the
following code (where PFN == GFN) :
struct vcpu *v = current;
struct domain *d = v->domain;
p2m_type_t ot;
mfn_t mfn;
mfn = gfn_to_mfn(d, gfn , &ot); //find the old type of the gfn
printk("MFN : %lx\n", mfn);
printk("OT : %d\n", ot);
p2m_change_type(d, gfn, ot, p2m_ram_ro);
After this I tried to assign a new value to variable (to test if the
write request is being dropped). But, the DomU hangs within the kernel
module (insmod command is never being completed).
I assume this is because I am doing it within a kernel module. Now I
am going to try passing a user process' variable's address to kernel
module and pass it further to hypervisor and repeat the above process.
Before that, I just want to make sure that I am going in the right
direction.
Thanks,
_SDK
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