KUEP broken on FSP2?

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Fri Oct 6 16:21:51 AEDT 2023


Hi,

Le 05/10/2023 à 21:06, Eddie James a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I'm attempting to run linux 6.1 on my FSP2, but my kernel crashes 
> attempting to get into userspace. The init script works, but the first 
> binary (mount) I run results in oops. Can anyone help me to debug this 
> further or suggest anything?

I can't see anything in your dump suggesting that KUEP is broken, can you ?

What I see is that kernel tries to execute user memory, which is wrong. 
And KUEP perfectly works by blocking that access. There is no call 
trace, suggesting that the kernel has jumped in the weed.

Christophe

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eddie
> 
> 
> [    1.042743] kernel tried to execute user page (b7ee2000) - exploit 
> attempt? (
> uid: 0)
> [    1.042846] BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch
> [    1.042919] Faulting instruction address: 0xb7ee2000
> [    1.042986] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> [    1.043059] BE PAGE_SIZE=4K FSP-2
> [    1.043106] Modules linked in:
> [    1.043149] CPU: 0 PID: 61 Comm: mount Not tainted 
> 6.1.55-d23900f.ppcnf-fsp2
> #1
> [    1.043249] Hardware name: ibm,fsp2 476fpe 0x7ff520c0 FSP-2
> [    1.043323] NIP:  b7ee2000 LR: 8c008000 CTR: 00000000
> [    1.043392] REGS: bffebd83 TRAP: 0400   Not tainted 
> (6.1.55-d23900f.ppcnf-fs
> p2)
> [    1.043491] MSR:  00000030 <IR,DR>  CR: 00001000  XER: 20000000
> [    1.043579]
> [    1.043579] GPR00: c00110ac bffebe63 bffebe7e bffebe88 8c008000 
> 00001000 0000
> 0d12 b7ee2000
> [    1.043579] GPR08: 00000033 00000000 00000000 c139df10 48224824 
> 1016c314 1016
> 0000 00000000
> [    1.043579] GPR16: 10160000 10160000 00000008 00000000 10160000 
> 00000000 1016
> 0000 1017f5b0
> [    1.043579] GPR24: 1017fa50 1017f4f0 1017fa50 1017f740 1017f630 
> 00000000 0000
> 0000 1017f4f0
> [    1.044101] NIP [b7ee2000] 0xb7ee2000
> [    1.044153] LR [8c008000] 0x8c008000
> [    1.044204] Call Trace:
> [    1.044238] Instruction dump:
> [    1.044279] XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX 
> XXXXXXXX XX
> XXXXXX
> [    1.044392] XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX 
> XXXXXXXX XX
> XXXXXX
> [    1.044506] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> [    1.044568]
> [    1.044590] note: mount[61] exited with irqs disabled
> 


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