[PATCH] powerpc/603: Fix protection of user pages mapped with PROT_NONE

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Mon Feb 1 17:29:50 AEDT 2021


On book3s/32, page protection is defined by the PP bits in the PTE
which provide the following protection depending on the access
keys defined in the matching segment register:
- PP 00 means RW with key 0 and N/A with key 1.
- PP 01 means RW with key 0 and RO with key 1.
- PP 10 means RW with both key 0 and key 1.
- PP 11 means RO with both key 0 and key 1.

Since the implementation of kernel userspace access protection,
PP bits have been set as follows:
- PP00 for pages without _PAGE_USER
- PP01 for pages with _PAGE_USER and _PAGE_RW
- PP11 for pages with _PAGE_USER and without _PAGE_RW

For kernelspace segments, kernel accesses are performed with key 0
and user accesses are performed with key 1. As PP00 is used for
non _PAGE_USER pages, user can't access kernel pages not flagged
_PAGE_USER while kernel can.

For userspace segments, both kernel and user accesses are performed
with key 0, therefore pages not flagged _PAGE_USER are still
accessible to the user.

This shouldn't be an issue, because userspace is expected to be
accessible to the user. But unlike most other architectures, powerpc
implements PROT_NONE protection by removing _PAGE_USER flag instead of
flagging the page as not valid. This means that pages in userspace
that are not flagged _PAGE_USER shall remain inaccessible.

To get the expected behaviour, just mimic other architectures in the
TLB miss handler by checking _PAGE_USER permission on userspace
accesses as if it was the _PAGE_PRESENT bit.

Note that this problem only is only for 603 cores. The 604+ have
an hash table, and hash_page() function already implement the
verification of _PAGE_USER permission on userspace pages.

Reported-by: Christoph Plattner <christoph.plattner at thalesgroup.com>
Fixes: f342adca3afc ("powerpc/32s: Prepare Kernel Userspace Access Protection")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S
index 858fbc8b19f3..0004e8a6a58e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S
@@ -453,11 +453,12 @@ InstructionTLBMiss:
 	cmplw	0,r1,r3
 #endif
 	mfspr	r2, SPRN_SDR1
-	li	r1,_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_EXEC
+	li	r1,_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_EXEC | _PAGE_USER
 	rlwinm	r2, r2, 28, 0xfffff000
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
 	bgt-	112f
 	lis	r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@ha	/* if kernel address, use */
+	li	r1,_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_EXEC
 	addi	r2, r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@l	/* kernel page table */
 #endif
 112:	rlwimi	r2,r3,12,20,29		/* insert top 10 bits of address */
@@ -516,10 +517,11 @@ DataLoadTLBMiss:
 	lis	r1, TASK_SIZE at h		/* check if kernel address */
 	cmplw	0,r1,r3
 	mfspr	r2, SPRN_SDR1
-	li	r1, _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
+	li	r1, _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_USER
 	rlwinm	r2, r2, 28, 0xfffff000
 	bgt-	112f
 	lis	r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@ha	/* if kernel address, use */
+	li	r1, _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
 	addi	r2, r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@l	/* kernel page table */
 112:	rlwimi	r2,r3,12,20,29		/* insert top 10 bits of address */
 	lwz	r2,0(r2)		/* get pmd entry */
@@ -593,10 +595,11 @@ DataStoreTLBMiss:
 	lis	r1, TASK_SIZE at h		/* check if kernel address */
 	cmplw	0,r1,r3
 	mfspr	r2, SPRN_SDR1
-	li	r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
+	li	r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_USER
 	rlwinm	r2, r2, 28, 0xfffff000
 	bgt-	112f
 	lis	r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@ha	/* if kernel address, use */
+	li	r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
 	addi	r2, r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@l	/* kernel page table */
 112:	rlwimi	r2,r3,12,20,29		/* insert top 10 bits of address */
 	lwz	r2,0(r2)		/* get pmd entry */
-- 
2.25.0



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