Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 5 authors, 2024-06-24

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Whitelist dtl slub object for copying to userspace

From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Date: 2024-06-17 18:00:45
Also in: linux-hardening
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 11:08:44PM +0530, Anjali K wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Reading the dispatch trace log from /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/cpu-*
results in a BUG() when the config CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is enabled as
shown below.

    kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
    Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
    LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
    Modules linked in: xfs libcrc32c dm_service_time sd_mod t10_pi sg ibmvfc
    scsi_transport_fc ibmveth pseries_wdt dm_multipath dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse
    CPU: 27 PID: 1815 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc3 #85
    Hardware name: IBM,9040-MRX POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NM1060_042) hv:phyp pSeries
    NIP:  c0000000005d23d4 LR: c0000000005d23d0 CTR: 00000000006ee6f8
    REGS: c000000120c078c0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.10.0-rc3)
    MSR:  8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 2828220f  XER: 0000000e
    CFAR: c0000000001fdc80 IRQMASK: 0
    [ ... GPRs omitted ... ]
    NIP [c0000000005d23d4] usercopy_abort+0x78/0xb0
    LR [c0000000005d23d0] usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0 (unreliable)
     __check_heap_object+0xf8/0x120
     check_heap_object+0x218/0x240
     __check_object_size+0x84/0x1a4
     dtl_file_read+0x17c/0x2c4
     full_proxy_read+0x8c/0x110
     vfs_read+0xdc/0x3a0
     ksys_read+0x84/0x144
     system_call_exception+0x124/0x330
     system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
    --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fff81f3ab34

Commit 6d07d1cd300f ("usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0")
requires that only whitelisted areas in slab/slub objects can be copied to
userspace when usercopy hardening is enabled using CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
Dtl contains hypervisor dispatch events which are expected to be read by
privileged users. Hence mark this safe for user access.
Specify useroffset=0 and usersize=DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES to whitelist the
entire object.

Co-developed-by: Vishal Chourasia <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Chourasia <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Anjali K <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
index 284a6fa04b0c..cba40d9d1284 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
@@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ static int alloc_dispatch_log_kmem_cache(void)
 {
 	void (*ctor)(void *) = get_dtl_cache_ctor();
 
-	dtl_cache = kmem_cache_create("dtl", DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES,
-						DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, 0, ctor);
+	dtl_cache = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("dtl", DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES,
+						DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, 0, 0, DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, ctor);
 	if (!dtl_cache) {
 		pr_warn("Failed to create dispatch trace log buffer cache\n");
 		pr_warn("Stolen time statistics will be unreliable\n");
Are you sure you want to universally expose this memory region? It
sounds like it's only exposed via a debug interface. Maybe it'd be
better to use a bounce buffer in the debug interface instead?

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dtl.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dtl.c
index 3f1cdccebc9c..3adcff5cc4b2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dtl.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dtl.c
@@ -257,6 +257,22 @@ static int dtl_file_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int bounce_copy(char __user *buf, void *src, size_t size)
+{
+	u8 *bounce;
+	int rc;
+
+	bounce = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!bounce)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	memcpy(bounce, src, size);
+	rc = copy_to_user(buf, bounce, size);
+
+	kfree(bounce);
+	return rc;
+}
+
 static ssize_t dtl_file_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len,
 		loff_t *pos)
 {
@@ -300,7 +316,7 @@ static ssize_t dtl_file_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len,
 	if (i + n_req > dtl->buf_entries) {
 		read_size = dtl->buf_entries - i;
 
-		rc = copy_to_user(buf, &dtl->buf[i],
+		rc = bounce_copy(buf, &dtl->buf[i],
 				read_size * sizeof(struct dtl_entry));
 		if (rc)
 			return -EFAULT;
@@ -312,7 +328,7 @@ static ssize_t dtl_file_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len,
 	}
 
 	/* .. and now the head */
-	rc = copy_to_user(buf, &dtl->buf[i], n_req * sizeof(struct dtl_entry));
+	rc = bounce_copy(buf, &dtl->buf[i], n_req * sizeof(struct dtl_entry));
 	if (rc)
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-- 
Kees Cook
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