Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 5 authors, 2021-05-19

RE: [PATCH 3/6] x86/sev-es: Use __put_user()/__get_user

From: David Laight <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-12 08:04:42
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From: Joerg
Sent: 12 May 2021 08:55

From: Joerg Roedel <redacted>

The put_user() and get_user() functions do checks on the address which is
passed to them. They check whether the address is actually a user-space
address and whether its fine to access it. They also call might_fault()
to indicate that they could fault and possibly sleep.

All of these checks are neither wanted nor required in the #VC exception
handler, which can be invoked from almost any context and also for MMIO
instructions from kernel space on kernel memory. All the #VC handler
wants to know is whether a fault happened when the access was tried.

This is provided by __put_user()/__get_user(), which just do the access
no matter what.
That can't be right at all.
__put/get_user() are only valid on user addresses and will try to
fault in a missing page - so can sleep.

At best this is abused the calls.

	David
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Fixes: f980f9c31a92 ("x86/sev-es: Compile early handler code into kernel image")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/sev.c | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sev.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sev.c
index 6530a844eb61..110b39345b40 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sev.c
@@ -342,22 +342,22 @@ static enum es_result vc_write_mem(struct es_em_ctxt *ctxt,
 	switch (size) {
 	case 1:
 		memcpy(&d1, buf, 1);
-		if (put_user(d1, target))
+		if (__put_user(d1, target))
 			goto fault;
 		break;
 	case 2:
 		memcpy(&d2, buf, 2);
-		if (put_user(d2, target))
+		if (__put_user(d2, target))
 			goto fault;
 		break;
 	case 4:
 		memcpy(&d4, buf, 4);
-		if (put_user(d4, target))
+		if (__put_user(d4, target))
 			goto fault;
 		break;
 	case 8:
 		memcpy(&d8, buf, 8);
-		if (put_user(d8, target))
+		if (__put_user(d8, target))
 			goto fault;
 		break;
 	default:
@@ -396,22 +396,22 @@ static enum es_result vc_read_mem(struct es_em_ctxt *ctxt,

 	switch (size) {
 	case 1:
-		if (get_user(d1, s))
+		if (__get_user(d1, s))
 			goto fault;
 		memcpy(buf, &d1, 1);
 		break;
 	case 2:
-		if (get_user(d2, s))
+		if (__get_user(d2, s))
 			goto fault;
 		memcpy(buf, &d2, 2);
 		break;
 	case 4:
-		if (get_user(d4, s))
+		if (__get_user(d4, s))
 			goto fault;
 		memcpy(buf, &d4, 4);
 		break;
 	case 8:
-		if (get_user(d8, s))
+		if (__get_user(d8, s))
 			goto fault;
 		memcpy(buf, &d8, 8);
 		break;
--
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