ARM64's pfn_valid() shifts away the upper PAGE_SHIFT bits of the input
before seeing if the PFN is valid. This leads to false positives when
some of the upper bits are set, but the lower bits match a valid PFN.
For example, the following userspace code looks up a bogus entry in
/proc/kpageflags:
int pagemap = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
int pageflags = open("/proc/kpageflags", O_RDONLY);
uint64_t pfn, val;
lseek64(pagemap, [...], SEEK_SET);
read(pagemap, &pfn, sizeof(pfn));
if (pfn & (1UL << 63)) { /* valid PFN */
pfn &= ((1UL << 55) - 1); /* clear flag bits */
pfn |= (1UL << 55);
lseek64(pageflags, pfn * sizeof(uint64_t), SEEK_SET);
read(pageflags, &val, sizeof(val));
}
On ARM64 this causes the userspace process to crash with SIGSEGV rather
than reading (1 << KPF_NOPAGE). kpageflags_read() treats the offset as
valid, and stable_page_flags() will try to access an address between the
user and kernel address ranges.
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
From: Will Deacon <hidden> Date: 2018-08-14 10:40:38
Hi Greg,
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
ARM64's pfn_valid() shifts away the upper PAGE_SHIFT bits of the input
before seeing if the PFN is valid. This leads to false positives when
some of the upper bits are set, but the lower bits match a valid PFN.
For example, the following userspace code looks up a bogus entry in
/proc/kpageflags:
int pagemap = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
int pageflags = open("/proc/kpageflags", O_RDONLY);
uint64_t pfn, val;
lseek64(pagemap, [...], SEEK_SET);
read(pagemap, &pfn, sizeof(pfn));
if (pfn & (1UL << 63)) { /* valid PFN */
pfn &= ((1UL << 55) - 1); /* clear flag bits */
pfn |= (1UL << 55);
lseek64(pageflags, pfn * sizeof(uint64_t), SEEK_SET);
read(pageflags, &val, sizeof(val));
}
On ARM64 this causes the userspace process to crash with SIGSEGV rather
than reading (1 << KPF_NOPAGE). kpageflags_read() treats the offset as
valid, and stable_page_flags() will try to access an address between the
user and kernel address ranges.
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks, this looks like a sensible fix to me. Do you think it warrants a
CC stable?
Will
Hi Greg,
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
quoted
ARM64's pfn_valid() shifts away the upper PAGE_SHIFT bits of the input
before seeing if the PFN is valid. This leads to false positives when
some of the upper bits are set, but the lower bits match a valid PFN.
For example, the following userspace code looks up a bogus entry in
/proc/kpageflags:
int pagemap = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
int pageflags = open("/proc/kpageflags", O_RDONLY);
uint64_t pfn, val;
lseek64(pagemap, [...], SEEK_SET);
read(pagemap, &pfn, sizeof(pfn));
if (pfn & (1UL << 63)) { /* valid PFN */
pfn &= ((1UL << 55) - 1); /* clear flag bits */
pfn |= (1UL << 55);
lseek64(pageflags, pfn * sizeof(uint64_t), SEEK_SET);
read(pageflags, &val, sizeof(val));
}
On ARM64 this causes the userspace process to crash with SIGSEGV rather
than reading (1 << KPF_NOPAGE). kpageflags_read() treats the offset as
valid, and stable_page_flags() will try to access an address between the
user and kernel address ranges.
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks, this looks like a sensible fix to me. Do you think it warrants a
CC stable?
Will
Yes, I think so. Should I resend with a "Fixes" field?
From: Will Deacon <hidden> Date: 2018-08-14 15:29:55
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 08:17:48AM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
On 08/14/2018 03:40 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
quoted
Hi Greg,
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
quoted
ARM64's pfn_valid() shifts away the upper PAGE_SHIFT bits of the input
before seeing if the PFN is valid. This leads to false positives when
some of the upper bits are set, but the lower bits match a valid PFN.
For example, the following userspace code looks up a bogus entry in
/proc/kpageflags:
int pagemap = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
int pageflags = open("/proc/kpageflags", O_RDONLY);
uint64_t pfn, val;
lseek64(pagemap, [...], SEEK_SET);
read(pagemap, &pfn, sizeof(pfn));
if (pfn & (1UL << 63)) { /* valid PFN */
pfn &= ((1UL << 55) - 1); /* clear flag bits */
pfn |= (1UL << 55);
lseek64(pageflags, pfn * sizeof(uint64_t), SEEK_SET);
read(pageflags, &val, sizeof(val));
}
On ARM64 this causes the userspace process to crash with SIGSEGV rather
than reading (1 << KPF_NOPAGE). kpageflags_read() treats the offset as
valid, and stable_page_flags() will try to access an address between the
user and kernel address ranges.
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks, this looks like a sensible fix to me. Do you think it warrants a
CC stable?
Will
Yes, I think so. Should I resend with a "Fixes" field?
Could do, but I think this goes all the way back to day 1! Doesn't arch/arm/
also suffer from the same issue?
Will
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 08:17:48AM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
quoted
On 08/14/2018 03:40 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
quoted
Hi Greg,
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:30:11PM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
quoted
ARM64's pfn_valid() shifts away the upper PAGE_SHIFT bits of the input
before seeing if the PFN is valid. This leads to false positives when
some of the upper bits are set, but the lower bits match a valid PFN.
For example, the following userspace code looks up a bogus entry in
/proc/kpageflags:
int pagemap = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
int pageflags = open("/proc/kpageflags", O_RDONLY);
uint64_t pfn, val;
lseek64(pagemap, [...], SEEK_SET);
read(pagemap, &pfn, sizeof(pfn));
if (pfn & (1UL << 63)) { /* valid PFN */
pfn &= ((1UL << 55) - 1); /* clear flag bits */
pfn |= (1UL << 55);
lseek64(pageflags, pfn * sizeof(uint64_t), SEEK_SET);
read(pageflags, &val, sizeof(val));
}
On ARM64 this causes the userspace process to crash with SIGSEGV rather
than reading (1 << KPF_NOPAGE). kpageflags_read() treats the offset as
valid, and stable_page_flags() will try to access an address between the
user and kernel address ranges.
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Thanks, this looks like a sensible fix to me. Do you think it warrants a
CC stable?
Will
Yes, I think so. Should I resend with a "Fixes" field?
Could do, but I think this goes all the way back to day 1! Doesn't arch/arm/
also suffer from the same issue?
Will
Yeah, it looks like this happens on non-LPAE 32-bit kernels too. LPAE
kernels aren't affected since __pfn_to_phys() promotes to a 64-bit type.
I can submit a fix for that too while I'm at it.