[PATCH v5 01/10] powerpc/powernv/idle: Restore IAMR after idle

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Mar 8 12:16:10 AEDT 2019


From: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>

Without restoring the IAMR after idle, execution prevention on POWER9
with Radix MMU is overwritten and the kernel can freely execute
userspace without faulting.

This is necessary when returning from any stop state that modifies
user state, as well as hypervisor state.

To test how this fails without this patch, load the lkdtm driver and
do the following:

  $ echo EXEC_USERSPACE > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT

which won't fault, then boot the kernel with powersave=off, where it
will fault. Applying this patch will fix this.

Fixes: 3b10d0095a1e ("powerpc/mm/radix: Prevent kernel execution of user space")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.10+
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
Reviewed-by: Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
v5: Unchanged.
v4: mpe: Use a #define for the stack slot.

 arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
index 7f5ac2e8581b..36178000a2f2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S
@@ -170,6 +170,9 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
 	bne-	core_idle_lock_held
 	blr
 
+/* Reuse an unused pt_regs slot for IAMR */
+#define PNV_POWERSAVE_IAMR	_DAR
+
 /*
  * Pass requested state in r3:
  *	r3 - PNV_THREAD_NAP/SLEEP/WINKLE in POWER8
@@ -200,6 +203,12 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
 	/* Continue saving state */
 	SAVE_GPR(2, r1)
 	SAVE_NVGPRS(r1)
+
+BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
+	mfspr	r5, SPRN_IAMR
+	std	r5, PNV_POWERSAVE_IAMR(r1)
+END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
+
 	mfcr	r5
 	std	r5,_CCR(r1)
 	std	r1,PACAR1(r13)
@@ -924,6 +933,17 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HVMODE)
 	REST_NVGPRS(r1)
 	REST_GPR(2, r1)
+
+BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
+	/* IAMR was saved in pnv_powersave_common() */
+	ld	r5, PNV_POWERSAVE_IAMR(r1)
+	mtspr	SPRN_IAMR, r5
+	/*
+	 * We don't need an isync here because the upcoming mtmsrd is
+	 * execution synchronizing.
+	 */
+END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
+
 	ld	r4,PACAKMSR(r13)
 	ld	r5,_LINK(r1)
 	ld	r6,_CCR(r1)
-- 
2.20.1



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