[PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/fault: Avoid heavy search_exception_tables() verification

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Wed Dec 9 01:31:34 AEDT 2020


Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> writes:

> Le 08/12/2020 à 14:00, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
>> On 12/8/20 2:07 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>> search_exception_tables() is an heavy operation, we have to avoid it.
>>> When KUAP is selected, we'll know the fault has been blocked by KUAP.
>>> Otherwise, it behaves just as if the address was already in the TLBs
>>> and no fault was generated.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
>>> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> v3: rebased
>>> v2: Squashed with the preceeding patch which was re-ordering tests that get removed in this patch.
>>> ---
>>>   arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 23 +++++++----------------
>>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
>>> index 3fcd34c28e10..1770b41e4730 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
>>> @@ -210,28 +210,19 @@ static bool bad_kernel_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>>>           return true;
>>>       }
>>> -    if (!is_exec && address < TASK_SIZE && (error_code & (DSISR_PROTFAULT | DSISR_KEYFAULT)) &&
>>> -        !search_exception_tables(regs->nip)) {
>>> -        pr_crit_ratelimited("Kernel attempted to access user page (%lx) - exploit attempt? (uid: 
>>> %d)\n",
>>> -                    address,
>>> -                    from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
>>> -    }
>>> -
>>>       // Kernel fault on kernel address is bad
>>>       if (address >= TASK_SIZE)
>>>           return true;
>>> -    // Fault on user outside of certain regions (eg. copy_tofrom_user()) is bad
>>> -    if (!search_exception_tables(regs->nip))
>>> -        return true;
>>> -
>>> -    // Read/write fault in a valid region (the exception table search passed
>>> -    // above), but blocked by KUAP is bad, it can never succeed.
>>> -    if (bad_kuap_fault(regs, address, is_write))
>>> +    // Read/write fault blocked by KUAP is bad, it can never succeed.
>>> +    if (bad_kuap_fault(regs, address, is_write)) {
>>> +        pr_crit_ratelimited("Kernel attempted to %s user page (%lx) - exploit attempt? (uid: %d)\n",
>>> +                    is_write ? "write" : "read", address,
>>> +                    from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
>>>           return true;
>>> +    }
>> 
>> 
>> Should we update bad_kuap_fault to check for !is_kernel_addr() and error_code & (DSISIR_PROT_FAULT | 
>> DSISIR_KEYFAULT). I am wondering whether we can take another fault w.r.t kernel address/user address 
>> and end up reporting that as KUAP fault?
>
> Just before this we do:
>
> 	if (address >= TASK_SIZE)
> 		return true;
>
> About the error code, I don't know. Can we take a fault that is not a DSISR_PROT_FAULT |
>   DSISR_KEYFAULT and that is not a KUAP fault ?
>
> Previously (before this patch), the error code was taken into account for the call to 
> search_exception_tables(), but has never been for the bad_kuap_fault().
>

a KUAP fault on radix will result in PROTFAULT and on hash it will
generate KEYFAULT. ie, something like below

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/kup.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/kup.h
index 32fd4452e960..b18cd931e325 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/kup.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/kup.h
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ static inline void restore_user_access(unsigned long flags)
 		allow_user_access(to, to, end - addr, KUAP_READ_WRITE);
 }
 
-static inline bool
-bad_kuap_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, bool is_write)
+static inline bool bad_kuap_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
+				  bool is_write, unsigned long error_code)
 {
 	unsigned long begin = regs->kuap & 0xf0000000;
 	unsigned long end = regs->kuap << 28;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup.h
index 91af50e9b09a..16bb6aee9fcd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup.h
@@ -392,14 +392,24 @@ static inline void set_kuap(unsigned long value)
 }
 
 static inline bool bad_kuap_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
-				  bool is_write)
+				  bool is_write, unsigned long error_code)
 {
+	unsigned long fault;
+
 	if (!mmu_has_feature(MMU_FTR_BOOK3S_KUAP))
 		return false;
+
+	if (radix_enabled())
+		fault = DSISR_PROTFAULT;
+	else
+		fault = DSISR_KEYFAULT;
+
 	/*
 	 * For radix this will be a storage protection fault (DSISR_PROTFAULT).
 	 * For hash this will be a key fault (DSISR_KEYFAULT)
 	 */
+	if (!(error_code & fault))
+		return false;
 	/*
 	 * We do have exception table entry, but accessing the
 	 * userspace results in fault.  This could be because we
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kup.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kup.h
index 49fe4b4a9434..bdffa2664bf0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kup.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kup.h
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ void setup_kuap(bool disabled);
 #else
 static inline void setup_kuap(bool disabled) { }
 
-static inline bool
-bad_kuap_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, bool is_write)
+static inline bool bad_kuap_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
+				  bool is_write, unsigned long error_code)
 {
 	return false;
 }
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/kup-8xx.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/kup-8xx.h
index 567cdc557402..7bdd9e5b63ed 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/kup-8xx.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/kup-8xx.h
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ static inline void restore_user_access(unsigned long flags)
 	mtspr(SPRN_MD_AP, flags);
 }
 
-static inline bool
-bad_kuap_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, bool is_write)
+static inline bool bad_kuap_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
+				  bool is_write, unsigned long error_code)
 {
 	return WARN(!((regs->kuap ^ MD_APG_KUAP) & 0xff000000),
 		    "Bug: fault blocked by AP register !");
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index b12595102525..03c3414bdc79 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static bool bad_kernel_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 	}
 
 	// Kernel fault on kernel address is bad
-	if (address >= TASK_SIZE)
+	if (is_kernel_addr(address))
 		return true;
 
 	// Fault on user outside of certain regions (eg. copy_tofrom_user()) is bad
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static bool bad_kernel_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 
 	// Read/write fault in a valid region (the exception table search passed
 	// above), but blocked by KUAP is bad, it can never succeed.
-	if (bad_kuap_fault(regs, address, is_write))
+	if (bad_kuap_fault(regs, address, is_write, error_code))
 		return true;
 
 	// What's left? Kernel fault on user in well defined regions (extable



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