[PATCH 5/5] powerpc: Add LKDTM test to hijack a patch mapping

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 03/06/2020 à 07:19, Christopher M. Riedl a écrit :
> When live patching with STRICT_KERNEL_RWX, the CPU doing the patching
> must use a temporary mapping which allows for writing to kernel text.
> During the entire window of time when this temporary mapping is in use,
> another CPU could write to the same mapping and maliciously alter kernel
> text. Implement a LKDTM test to attempt to exploit such a openings when
> a CPU is patching under STRICT_KERNEL_RWX. The test is only implemented
> on powerpc for now.
> 
> The LKDTM "hijack" test works as follows:
> 
> 	1. A CPU executes an infinite loop to patch an instruction.
> 	   This is the "patching" CPU.
> 	2. Another CPU attempts to write to the address of the temporary
> 	   mapping used by the "patching" CPU. This other CPU is the
> 	   "hijacker" CPU. The hijack either fails with a segfault or
> 	   succeeds, in which case some kernel text is now overwritten.
> 
> How to run the test:
> 
> 	mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
> 	(echo HIJACK_PATCH > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christopher M. Riedl <cmr at informatik.wtf>
> ---
>   drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c  |   1 +
>   drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h |   1 +
>   drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 103 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
> index a5e344df9166..482e72f6a1e1 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
> @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ static const struct crashtype crashtypes[] = {
>   	CRASHTYPE(WRITE_RO),
>   	CRASHTYPE(WRITE_RO_AFTER_INIT),
>   	CRASHTYPE(WRITE_KERN),
> +	CRASHTYPE(HIJACK_PATCH),
>   	CRASHTYPE(REFCOUNT_INC_OVERFLOW),
>   	CRASHTYPE(REFCOUNT_ADD_OVERFLOW),
>   	CRASHTYPE(REFCOUNT_INC_NOT_ZERO_OVERFLOW),
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h
> index 601a2156a0d4..bfcf3542370d 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h
> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h
> @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ void lkdtm_EXEC_USERSPACE(void);
>   void lkdtm_EXEC_NULL(void);
>   void lkdtm_ACCESS_USERSPACE(void);
>   void lkdtm_ACCESS_NULL(void);
> +void lkdtm_HIJACK_PATCH(void);
>   
>   /* lkdtm_refcount.c */
>   void lkdtm_REFCOUNT_INC_OVERFLOW(void);
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
> index 62f76d506f04..8bda3b56bc78 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>   #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>   #include <linux/mman.h>
>   #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/kthread.h>
>   #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>   
>   /* Whether or not to fill the target memory area with do_nothing(). */
> @@ -213,6 +214,106 @@ void lkdtm_ACCESS_NULL(void)
>   	*ptr = tmp;
>   }
>   
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC) && defined(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX)

Should also depend on CONFIG_SMP.

Christophe

> +#include <include/asm/code-patching.h>
> +
> +extern unsigned long read_cpu_patching_addr(unsigned int cpu);
> +
> +static struct ppc_inst * const patch_site = (struct ppc_inst *)&do_nothing;
> +
> +static int lkdtm_patching_cpu(void *data)
> +{
> +	int err = 0;
> +	struct ppc_inst insn = ppc_inst(0xdeadbeef);
> +
> +	pr_info("starting patching_cpu=%d\n", smp_processor_id());
> +	do {
> +		err = patch_instruction(patch_site, insn);
> +	} while (ppc_inst_equal(ppc_inst_read(READ_ONCE(patch_site)), insn) &&
> +			!err && !kthread_should_stop());
> +
> +	if (err)
> +		pr_warn("patch_instruction returned error: %d\n", err);
> +
> +	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> +	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
> +		schedule();
> +		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> +	}
> +
> +	return err;
> +}
> +
> +void lkdtm_HIJACK_PATCH(void)
> +{
> +	struct task_struct *patching_kthrd;
> +	struct ppc_inst original_insn;
> +	int patching_cpu, hijacker_cpu, attempts;
> +	unsigned long addr;
> +	bool hijacked;
> +
> +	if (num_online_cpus() < 2) {
> +		pr_warn("need at least two cpus\n");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	original_insn = ppc_inst_read(READ_ONCE(patch_site));
> +
> +	hijacker_cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +	patching_cpu = cpumask_any_but(cpu_online_mask, hijacker_cpu);
> +
> +	patching_kthrd = kthread_create_on_node(&lkdtm_patching_cpu, NULL,
> +						cpu_to_node(patching_cpu),
> +						"lkdtm_patching_cpu");
> +	kthread_bind(patching_kthrd, patching_cpu);
> +	wake_up_process(patching_kthrd);
> +
> +	addr = offset_in_page(patch_site) | read_cpu_patching_addr(patching_cpu);
> +
> +	pr_info("starting hijacker_cpu=%d\n", hijacker_cpu);
> +	for (attempts = 0; attempts < 100000; ++attempts) {
> +		/* Use __put_user to catch faults without an Oops */
> +		hijacked = !__put_user(0xbad00bad, (unsigned int *)addr);
> +
> +		if (hijacked) {
> +			if (kthread_stop(patching_kthrd))
> +				goto out;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	}
> +	pr_info("hijack attempts: %d\n", attempts);
> +
> +	if (hijacked) {
> +		if (*(unsigned int *)READ_ONCE(patch_site) == 0xbad00bad)
> +			pr_err("overwrote kernel text\n");
> +		/*
> +		 * There are window conditions where the hijacker cpu manages to
> +		 * write to the patch site but the site gets overwritten again by
> +		 * the patching cpu. We still consider that a "successful" hijack
> +		 * since the hijacker cpu did not fault on the write.
> +		 */
> +		pr_err("FAIL: wrote to another cpu's patching area\n");
> +	} else {
> +		kthread_stop(patching_kthrd);
> +	}
> +
> +out:
> +	/* Restore the original insn for any future lkdtm tests */
> +	patch_instruction(patch_site, original_insn);
> +}
> +
> +#else
> +
> +void lkdtm_HIJACK_PATCH(void)
> +{
> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC))
> +		pr_err("XFAIL: this test is powerpc-only\n");
> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX))
> +		pr_err("XFAIL: this test requires CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX\n");
> +}
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_PPC && CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX */
> +
>   void __init lkdtm_perms_init(void)
>   {
>   	/* Make sure we can write to __ro_after_init values during __init */
>