Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2022-10-04

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/rtas: block error injection when locked down

From: Andrew Donnellan <hidden>
Date: 2022-09-28 13:41:23
Also in: linux-security-module, lkml

On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 08:16 -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
The error injection facility on pseries VMs allows corruption of
arbitrary guest memory, potentially enabling a sufficiently
privileged
user to disable lockdown or perform other modifications of the
running
kernel via the rtas syscall.

Block the PAPR error injection facility from being opened or called
when locked down.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <redacted>
Is there any circumstance (short of arbitrary code execution etc) where
the rtas_call() check will actually trigger rather than the sys_rtas()
check? (Not that it matters, defence in depth is good.)

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/security.h   |  1 +
 security/security.c        |  1 +
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index 693133972294..c2540d393f1c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
 #include <linux/of_fdt.h>
@@ -464,6 +465,9 @@ void rtas_call_unlocked(struct rtas_args *args,
int token, int nargs, int nret,
        va_end(list);
 }
 
+static int ibm_open_errinjct_token;
+static int ibm_errinjct_token;
+
 int rtas_call(int token, int nargs, int nret, int *outputs, ...)
 {
        va_list list;
@@ -476,6 +480,16 @@ int rtas_call(int token, int nargs, int nret,
int *outputs, ...)
        if (!rtas.entry || token == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE)
                return -1;
 
+       if (token == ibm_open_errinjct_token || token ==
ibm_errinjct_token) {
+               /*
+                * It would be nicer to not discard the error value
+                * from security_locked_down(), but callers expect an
+                * RTAS status, not an errno.
+                */
+               if
(security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_RTAS_ERROR_INJECTION))
+                       return -1;
+       }
+
        if ((mfmsr() & (MSR_IR|MSR_DR)) != (MSR_IR|MSR_DR)) {
                WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
                return -1;
@@ -1227,6 +1241,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(rtas, struct rtas_args __user
*, uargs)
        if (block_rtas_call(token, nargs, &args))
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       if (token == ibm_open_errinjct_token || token ==
ibm_errinjct_token) {
+               int err;
+
+               err =
security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_RTAS_ERROR_INJECTION);
+               if (err)
+                       return err;
+       }
+
        /* Need to handle ibm,suspend_me call specially */
        if (token == rtas_token("ibm,suspend-me")) {
 
@@ -1325,7 +1347,8 @@ void __init rtas_initialize(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_RTAS_ERROR_LOGGING
        rtas_last_error_token = rtas_token("rtas-last-error");
 #endif
-
+       ibm_open_errinjct_token = rtas_token("ibm,open-errinjct");
+       ibm_errinjct_token = rtas_token("ibm,errinjct");
        rtas_syscall_filter_init();
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 39e7c0e403d9..70f89dc3a712 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ enum lockdown_reason {
        LOCKDOWN_XMON_WR,
        LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER,
        LOCKDOWN_DBG_WRITE_KERNEL,
+       LOCKDOWN_RTAS_ERROR_INJECTION,
        LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX,
        LOCKDOWN_KCORE,
        LOCKDOWN_KPROBES,
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 51bf66d4f472..eabe3ce7e74e 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ const char *const
lockdown_reasons[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX+1] = {
        [LOCKDOWN_XMON_WR] = "xmon write access",
        [LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER] = "use of bpf to write user RAM",
        [LOCKDOWN_DBG_WRITE_KERNEL] = "use of kgdb/kdb to write
kernel RAM",
+       [LOCKDOWN_RTAS_ERROR_INJECTION] = "RTAS error injection",
        [LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX] = "integrity",
        [LOCKDOWN_KCORE] = "/proc/kcore access",
        [LOCKDOWN_KPROBES] = "use of kprobes",
-- 
Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@linux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited
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