[PATCH 18/18] powerpc/fault: Use analyse_instr() to check for store with updates to sp

Greg Kurz groug at kaod.org
Fri Feb 7 19:15:55 AEDT 2020


On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 01:11:33 +1100
Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net> wrote:

> Jordan Niethe <jniethe5 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > A user-mode access to an address a long way below the stack pointer is
> > only valid if the instruction is one that would update the stack pointer
> > to the address accessed. This is checked by directly looking at the
> > instructions op-code. As a result is does not take into account prefixed
> > instructions. Instead of looking at the instruction our self, use
> > analyse_instr() determine if this a store instruction that will update
> > the stack pointer.
> >
> > Something to note is that there currently are not any store with update
> > prefixed instructions. Actually there is no plan for prefixed
> > update-form loads and stores. So this patch is probably not needed but
> > it might be preferable to use analyse_instr() rather than open coding
> > the test anyway.
> 
> Yes please. I was looking through this code recently and was
> horrified. This improves things a lot and I think is justification
> enough as-is.
> 

Except it doesn't work... I'm now experiencing a systematic crash of
systemd at boot in my fedora31 guest:

[    3.322912] systemd[1]: segfault (11) at 7ffff3eaf550 nip 7ce4d42f8d78 lr 9d82c098fc0 code 1 in libsystemd-shared-243.so[7ce4d4150000+2e0000]
[    3.323112] systemd[1]: code: 00000480 60420000 3c4c001e 3842edb0 7c0802a6 3d81fff0 fb81ffe0 fba1ffe8 
[    3.323244] systemd[1]: code: fbc1fff0 fbe1fff8 f8010010 7c200b78 <f801f001> 7c216000 4082fff8 f801ff71 

f801f001 is

0x1a8d78 <serialize_item_format+40>: stdu    r0,-4096(r1)

which analyse_instr() is supposed to decode as a STORE that
updates r1 so we should be good... Unfortunately analyse_instr()
forbids partial register sets, since it might return op->val
based on some register content depending on the instruction:

	/* Following cases refer to regs->gpr[], so we need all regs */
	if (!FULL_REGS(regs))
		return -1;

analyse_instr() was introduced with instruction emulation in mind, which
goes far beyond the need we have in store_updates_sp(). Especially the
fault path doesn't care for the register content at all...

Not sure how to cope with that correctly (refactor analyse_instr() ? ) but
until someone comes up with a solution, please don't merge this patch.

Cheers,

--
Greg

> Regards,
> Daniel
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 39 +++++++++++----------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> > index b5047f9b5dec..cb78b3ca1800 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> > @@ -41,37 +41,17 @@
> >  #include <asm/siginfo.h>
> >  #include <asm/debug.h>
> >  #include <asm/kup.h>
> > +#include <asm/sstep.h>
> >  
> >  /*
> >   * Check whether the instruction inst is a store using
> >   * an update addressing form which will update r1.
> >   */
> > -static bool store_updates_sp(unsigned int inst)
> > +static bool store_updates_sp(struct instruction_op *op)
> >  {
> > -	/* check for 1 in the rA field */
> > -	if (((inst >> 16) & 0x1f) != 1)
> > -		return false;
> > -	/* check major opcode */
> > -	switch (inst >> 26) {
> > -	case OP_STWU:
> > -	case OP_STBU:
> > -	case OP_STHU:
> > -	case OP_STFSU:
> > -	case OP_STFDU:
> > -		return true;
> > -	case OP_STD:	/* std or stdu */
> > -		return (inst & 3) == 1;
> > -	case OP_31:
> > -		/* check minor opcode */
> > -		switch ((inst >> 1) & 0x3ff) {
> > -		case OP_31_XOP_STDUX:
> > -		case OP_31_XOP_STWUX:
> > -		case OP_31_XOP_STBUX:
> > -		case OP_31_XOP_STHUX:
> > -		case OP_31_XOP_STFSUX:
> > -		case OP_31_XOP_STFDUX:
> > +	if (GETTYPE(op->type) == STORE) {
> > +		if ((op->type & UPDATE) && (op->update_reg == 1))
> >  			return true;
> > -		}
> >  	}
> >  	return false;
> >  }
> > @@ -278,14 +258,17 @@ static bool bad_stack_expansion(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
> >  
> >  		if ((flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && (flags & FAULT_FLAG_USER) &&
> >  		    access_ok(nip, sizeof(*nip))) {
> > -			unsigned int inst;
> > +			unsigned int inst, sufx;
> > +			struct instruction_op op;
> >  			int res;
> >  
> >  			pagefault_disable();
> > -			res = __get_user_inatomic(inst, nip);
> > +			res = __get_user_instr_inatomic(inst, sufx, nip);
> >  			pagefault_enable();
> > -			if (!res)
> > -				return !store_updates_sp(inst);
> > +			if (!res) {
> > +				analyse_instr(&op, uregs, inst, sufx);
> > +				return !store_updates_sp(&op);
> > +			}
> >  			*must_retry = true;
> >  		}
> >  		return true;
> > -- 
> > 2.20.1



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