powerpc/64s: Make rfi_flush_fallback a little more robust
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Aug 9 00:26:02 AEST 2018
On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 12:42:44 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Because rfi_flush_fallback runs immediately before the return to
> userspace it currently runs with the user r1 (stack pointer). This
> means if we oops in there we will report a bad kernel stack pointer in
> the exception entry path, eg:
>
> Bad kernel stack pointer 7ffff7150e40 at c0000000000023b4
> Oops: Bad kernel stack pointer, sig: 6 [#1]
> LE SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PowerNV
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 1246 Comm: klogd Not tainted 4.18.0-rc2-gcc-7.3.1-00175-g0443f8a69ba3 #7
> NIP: c0000000000023b4 LR: 0000000010053e00 CTR: 0000000000000040
> REGS: c0000000fffe7d40 TRAP: 4100 Not tainted (4.18.0-rc2-gcc-7.3.1-00175-g0443f8a69ba3)
> MSR: 9000000002803031 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,LE> CR: 44000442 XER: 20000000
> CFAR: c00000000000bac8 IRQMASK: c0000000f1e66a80
> GPR00: 0000000002000000 00007ffff7150e40 00007fff93a99900 0000000000000020
> ...
> NIP [c0000000000023b4] rfi_flush_fallback+0x34/0x80
> LR [0000000010053e00] 0x10053e00
>
> Although the NIP tells us where we were, and the TRAP number tells us
> what happened, it would still be nicer if we could report the actual
> exception rather than barfing about the stack pointer.
>
> We an do that fairly simply by loading the kernel stack pointer on
> entry and restoring the user value before returning. That way we see a
> regular oops such as:
>
> Unrecoverable exception 4100 at c00000000000239c
> Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1]
> LE SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PowerNV
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 1251 Comm: klogd Not tainted 4.18.0-rc3-gcc-7.3.1-00097-g4ebfcac65acd-dirty #40
> NIP: c00000000000239c LR: 0000000010053e00 CTR: 0000000000000040
> REGS: c0000000f1e17bb0 TRAP: 4100 Not tainted (4.18.0-rc3-gcc-7.3.1-00097-g4ebfcac65acd-dirty)
> MSR: 9000000002803031 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,LE> CR: 44000442 XER: 20000000
> CFAR: c00000000000bac8 IRQMASK: 0
> ...
> NIP [c00000000000239c] rfi_flush_fallback+0x3c/0x80
> LR [0000000010053e00] 0x10053e00
> Call Trace:
> [c0000000f1e17e30] [c00000000000b9e4] system_call+0x5c/0x70 (unreliable)
>
> Note this shouldn't make the kernel stack pointer vulnerable to a
> meltdown attack, because it should be flushed from the cache before we
> return to userspace. The user r1 value will be in the cache, because
> we load it in the return path, but that is harmless.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/78ee9946371f5848ddfc88ab1a4386
cheers
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