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| author | Jinke Han <jinkehan@didiglobal.com> | 2026-09-08 15:37:42 +0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2026-09-17 09:48:42 +0200 |
| commit | a5f7a5bb3b7f28ba7e4fa246775b29a0e5537255 (patch) | |
| tree | 73fef824f9a846cf935869d0dbc5070ef6e2f741 /Documentation/networking/tls.rst | |
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x86/kprobes: Fix crash when probing CS CALL instructionsgrafted
When using eBPF to probe CS CALL instructions within a function,
a crash can be triggered.
The eBPF tool probes offset 257 of the __hrtimer_run_queues()
function:
<__hrtimer_run_queues+249>: nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
<__hrtimer_run_queues+254>: mov %r14,%rdi
<__hrtimer_run_queues+257>: cs call <__x86_indirect_thunk_r12>
<__hrtimer_run_queues+263>: mov %eax,%r12d
<__hrtimer_run_queues+266>: xchg %ax,%ax
<__hrtimer_run_queues+268>: mov %r13,%rdi
Which triggers this crash:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000000f41c9
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: P
RIP: 0010:__hrtimer_run_queues+0x106/0x230
Note that __hrtimer_run_queues+0x106 is __hrtimer_run_queues+262, which is
at the 6th byte of the above CS CALL instruction. Since the CS CALL
instruction occupies 6 bytes, the exception occurred in the middle of that
call instruction.
The root cause is that when using eBPF tools to probe in the middle of a
function, a kprobe with INT3 is used as the underlying implementation.
During single-step emulation of the original CALL instruction,
int3_emulate_call() assumes that the probed CALL instruction is 5 bytes
long. However, the actual CS-prefixed CALL instruction occupies 6 bytes,
so it constructs an incorrect exception return address. When the CPU
returns from the kprobe handler, the next instruction to be executed is at
the address of the last byte of that CS CALL instruction. Coincidentally,
starting from that address, the CPU fetches and decodes a completely
different instruction, which ultimately triggers a kernel crash.
Fix the issue by using the actual instruction length obtained from
the instruction decoder when constructing the exception return
address, rather than relying on the hardcoded CALL_INSN_SIZE macro.
[ mingo: Refined the changelog ]
Fixes: 6256e668b7af ("x86/kprobes: Use int3 instead of debug trap for single-step")
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jinke Han <jinkehan@didiglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260908073742.GA10517@didi-ThinkCentre-M920t-N000
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/tls.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/tls.rst | 346 |
1 files changed, 346 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..980c442d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/tls.rst @@ -0,0 +1,346 @@ +.. _kernel_tls: + +========== +Kernel TLS +========== + +Overview +======== + +Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) that runs over +TCP. TLS provides end-to-end data integrity and confidentiality. + +User interface +============== + +Creating a TLS connection +------------------------- + +First create a new TCP socket and once the connection is established set the +TLS ULP. + +.. code-block:: c + + sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); + connect(sock, addr, addrlen); + setsockopt(sock, SOL_TCP, TCP_ULP, "tls", sizeof("tls")); + +Setting the TLS ULP allows us to set/get TLS socket options. Currently +only the symmetric encryption is handled in the kernel. After the TLS +handshake is complete, we have all the parameters required to move the +data-path to the kernel. There is a separate socket option for moving +the transmit and the receive into the kernel. + +.. code-block:: c + + /* From linux/tls.h */ + struct tls_crypto_info { + unsigned short version; + unsigned short cipher_type; + }; + + struct tls12_crypto_info_aes_gcm_128 { + struct tls_crypto_info info; + unsigned char iv[TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_IV_SIZE]; + unsigned char key[TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_KEY_SIZE]; + unsigned char salt[TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_SALT_SIZE]; + unsigned char rec_seq[TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_REC_SEQ_SIZE]; + }; + + + struct tls12_crypto_info_aes_gcm_128 crypto_info; + + crypto_info.info.version = TLS_1_2_VERSION; + crypto_info.info.cipher_type = TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128; + memcpy(crypto_info.iv, iv_write, TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_IV_SIZE); + memcpy(crypto_info.rec_seq, seq_number_write, + TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_REC_SEQ_SIZE); + memcpy(crypto_info.key, cipher_key_write, TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_KEY_SIZE); + memcpy(crypto_info.salt, implicit_iv_write, TLS_CIPHER_AES_GCM_128_SALT_SIZE); + + setsockopt(sock, SOL_TLS, TLS_TX, &crypto_info, sizeof(crypto_info)); + +Transmit and receive are set separately, but the setup is the same, using either +TLS_TX or TLS_RX. + +Sending TLS application data +---------------------------- + +After setting the TLS_TX socket option all application data sent over this +socket is encrypted using TLS and the parameters provided in the socket option. +For example, we can send an encrypted hello world record as follows: + +.. code-block:: c + + const char *msg = "hello world\n"; + send(sock, msg, strlen(msg)); + +send() data is directly encrypted from the userspace buffer provided +to the encrypted kernel send buffer if possible. + +The sendfile system call will send the file's data over TLS records of maximum +length (2^14). + +.. code-block:: c + + file = open(filename, O_RDONLY); + fstat(file, &stat); + sendfile(sock, file, &offset, stat.st_size); + +TLS records are created and sent after each send() call, unless +MSG_MORE is passed. MSG_MORE will delay creation of a record until +MSG_MORE is not passed, or the maximum record size is reached. + +The kernel will need to allocate a buffer for the encrypted data. +This buffer is allocated at the time send() is called, such that +either the entire send() call will return -ENOMEM (or block waiting +for memory), or the encryption will always succeed. If send() returns +-ENOMEM and some data was left on the socket buffer from a previous +call using MSG_MORE, the MSG_MORE data is left on the socket buffer. + +Receiving TLS application data +------------------------------ + +After setting the TLS_RX socket option, all recv family socket calls +are decrypted using TLS parameters provided. A full TLS record must +be received before decryption can happen. + +.. code-block:: c + + char buffer[16384]; + recv(sock, buffer, 16384); + +Received data is decrypted directly in to the user buffer if it is +large enough, and no additional allocations occur. If the userspace +buffer is too small, data is decrypted in the kernel and copied to +userspace. + +``EINVAL`` is returned if the TLS version in the received message does not +match the version passed in setsockopt. + +``EMSGSIZE`` is returned if the received message is too big. + +``EBADMSG`` is returned if decryption failed for any other reason. + +Send TLS control messages +------------------------- + +Other than application data, TLS has control messages such as alert +messages (record type 21) and handshake messages (record type 22), etc. +These messages can be sent over the socket by providing the TLS record type +via a CMSG. For example the following function sends @data of @length bytes +using a record of type @record_type. + +.. code-block:: c + + /* send TLS control message using record_type */ + static int klts_send_ctrl_message(int sock, unsigned char record_type, + void *data, size_t length) + { + struct msghdr msg = {0}; + int cmsg_len = sizeof(record_type); + struct cmsghdr *cmsg; + char buf[CMSG_SPACE(cmsg_len)]; + struct iovec msg_iov; /* Vector of data to send/receive into. */ + + msg.msg_control = buf; + msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(buf); + cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg); + cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_TLS; + cmsg->cmsg_type = TLS_SET_RECORD_TYPE; + cmsg->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(cmsg_len); + *CMSG_DATA(cmsg) = record_type; + msg.msg_controllen = cmsg->cmsg_len; + + msg_iov.iov_base = data; + msg_iov.iov_len = length; + msg.msg_iov = &msg_iov; + msg.msg_iovlen = 1; + + return sendmsg(sock, &msg, 0); + } + +Control message data should be provided unencrypted, and will be +encrypted by the kernel. + +Receiving TLS control messages +------------------------------ + +TLS control messages are passed in the userspace buffer, with message +type passed via cmsg. If no cmsg buffer is provided, an error is +returned if a control message is received. Data messages may be +received without a cmsg buffer set. + +.. code-block:: c + + char buffer[16384]; + char cmsg[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(unsigned char))]; + struct msghdr msg = {0}; + msg.msg_control = cmsg; + msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(cmsg); + + struct iovec msg_iov; + msg_iov.iov_base = buffer; + msg_iov.iov_len = 16384; + + msg.msg_iov = &msg_iov; + msg.msg_iovlen = 1; + + int ret = recvmsg(sock, &msg, 0 /* flags */); + + struct cmsghdr *cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg); + if (cmsg->cmsg_level == SOL_TLS && + cmsg->cmsg_type == TLS_GET_RECORD_TYPE) { + int record_type = *((unsigned char *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg)); + // Do something with record_type, and control message data in + // buffer. + // + // Note that record_type may be == to application data (23). + } else { + // Buffer contains application data. + } + +recv will never return data from mixed types of TLS records. + +TLS 1.3 Key Updates +------------------- + +In TLS 1.3, KeyUpdate handshake messages signal that the sender is +updating its TX key. Any message sent after a KeyUpdate will be +encrypted using the new key. The userspace library can pass the new +key to the kernel using the TLS_TX and TLS_RX socket options, as for +the initial keys. TLS version and cipher cannot be changed. + +To prevent attempting to decrypt incoming records using the wrong key, +decryption will be paused when a KeyUpdate message is received by the +kernel, until the new key has been provided using the TLS_RX socket +option. Any read occurring after the KeyUpdate has been read and +before the new key is provided will fail with EKEYEXPIRED. poll() will +not report any read events from the socket until the new key is +provided. There is no pausing on the transmit side. + +Userspace should make sure that the crypto_info provided has been set +properly. In particular, the kernel will not check for key/nonce +reuse. + +The number of successful and failed key updates is tracked in the +``TlsTxRekeyOk``, ``TlsRxRekeyOk``, ``TlsTxRekeyError``, +``TlsRxRekeyError`` statistics. The ``TlsRxRekeyReceived`` statistic +counts KeyUpdate handshake messages that have been received. + +Integrating in to userspace TLS library +--------------------------------------- + +At a high level, the kernel TLS ULP is a replacement for the record +layer of a userspace TLS library. + +A patchset to OpenSSL to use ktls as the record layer is +`here <https://github.com/Mellanox/openssl/commits/tls_rx2>`_. + +`An example <https://github.com/ktls/af_ktls-tool/commits/RX>`_ +of calling send directly after a handshake using gnutls. +Since it doesn't implement a full record layer, control +messages are not supported. + +Optional optimizations +---------------------- + +There are certain condition-specific optimizations the TLS ULP can make, +if requested. Those optimizations are either not universally beneficial +or may impact correctness, hence they require an opt-in. +All options are set per-socket using setsockopt(), and their +state can be checked using getsockopt() and via socket diag (``ss``). + +TLS_TX_ZEROCOPY_RO +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +For device offload only. Allow sendfile() data to be transmitted directly +to the NIC without making an in-kernel copy. This allows true zero-copy +behavior when device offload is enabled. + +The application must make sure that the data is not modified between being +submitted and transmission completing. In other words this is mostly +applicable if the data sent on a socket via sendfile() is read-only. + +Modifying the data may result in different versions of the data being used +for the original TCP transmission and TCP retransmissions. To the receiver +this will look like TLS records had been tampered with and will result +in record authentication failures. + +TLS_RX_EXPECT_NO_PAD +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +TLS 1.3 only. Expect the sender to not pad records. This allows the data +to be decrypted directly into user space buffers with TLS 1.3. + +This optimization is safe to enable only if the remote end is trusted, +otherwise it is an attack vector to doubling the TLS processing cost. + +If the record decrypted turns out to had been padded or is not a data +record it will be decrypted again into a kernel buffer without zero copy. +Such events are counted in the ``TlsDecryptRetry`` statistic. + +TLS_TX_MAX_PAYLOAD_LEN +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Specifies the maximum size of the plaintext payload for transmitted TLS records. + +When this option is set, the kernel enforces the specified limit on all outgoing +TLS records. No plaintext fragment will exceed this size. This option can be used +to implement the TLS Record Size Limit extension [1]. + +* For TLS 1.2, the value corresponds directly to the record size limit. +* For TLS 1.3, the value should be set to record_size_limit - 1, since + the record size limit includes one additional byte for the ContentType + field. + +The valid range for this option is 64 to 16384 bytes for TLS 1.2, and 63 to +16384 bytes for TLS 1.3. The lower minimum for TLS 1.3 accounts for the +extra byte used by the ContentType field. + +[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8449 + +Statistics +========== + +TLS implementation exposes the following per-namespace statistics +(``/proc/net/tls_stat``): + +- ``TlsCurrTxSw``, ``TlsCurrRxSw`` - + number of TX and RX sessions currently installed where host handles + cryptography + +- ``TlsCurrTxDevice``, ``TlsCurrRxDevice`` - + number of TX and RX sessions currently installed where NIC handles + cryptography + +- ``TlsTxSw``, ``TlsRxSw`` - + number of TX and RX sessions opened with host cryptography + +- ``TlsTxDevice``, ``TlsRxDevice`` - + number of TX and RX sessions opened with NIC cryptography + +- ``TlsDecryptError`` - + record decryption failed (e.g. due to incorrect authentication tag) + +- ``TlsDeviceRxResync`` - + number of RX resyncs sent to NICs handling cryptography + +- ``TlsDecryptRetry`` - + number of RX records which had to be re-decrypted due to + ``TLS_RX_EXPECT_NO_PAD`` mis-prediction. Note that this counter will + also increment for non-data records. + +- ``TlsRxNoPadViolation`` - + number of data RX records which had to be re-decrypted due to + ``TLS_RX_EXPECT_NO_PAD`` mis-prediction. + +- ``TlsTxRekeyOk``, ``TlsRxRekeyOk`` - + number of successful rekeys on existing sessions for TX and RX + +- ``TlsTxRekeyError``, ``TlsRxRekeyError`` - + number of failed rekeys on existing sessions for TX and RX + +- ``TlsRxRekeyReceived`` - + number of received KeyUpdate handshake messages, requiring userspace + to provide a new RX key |
