For ELFv1 binaries (big endian), the ELF entry point isn't the address
of the first instruction, instead it points to the function descriptor
for the entry point. The address of the first instruction is in the
function descriptor.
That means the kernel has to fetch the address of the first instruction
from user memory.
Because start_thread() uses __get_user(), which has no access_ok()
checks, it looks like a malicious ELF binary could be crafted to point
the entry point address at kernel memory. The kernel would load 8 bytes
from kernel memory into the NIP and then start the process, it would
typically crash, but a debugger could observe the NIP value which would
be the result of reading from kernel memory.
However that's NOT possible, because there is a check in
load_elf_binary() that ensures the ELF entry point is < TASK_SIZE
(look for BAD_ADDR(elf_entry)).
However it's fragile for start_thread() to rely on a check elsewhere,
even if the ELF parser is unlikely to ever drop the check that elf_entry
is a user address.
Make it more robust by using get_user(), which checks that the address
points at userspace before doing the load. If the address doesn't point
at userspace it will just set the result to zero, and the userspace
program will crash at zero (which is fine because it's self-inflicted).
Note that it's also possible for a malicious binary to have a valid
ELF entry address, but with the first instruction address pointing into
the kernel. However that's OK, because it is blocked by the MMU, just
like any other attempt to jump into the kernel from userspace.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241216121706.26790-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Replace 4xx usage with 44x, and replace 4xx_SOC with 44x.
Also, as pointed out by Christophe, if 44x || BOOKE can be simplified to
just test BOOKE, because 44x always selects BOOKE.
Retain the CONFIG_4xx symbol, as there are drivers that use it to mean
4xx || 44x, those will need updating before CONFIG_4xx can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240628121201.130802-6-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Inheriting the DEXCR across exec can have security and usability
concerns. If a program is compiled with hash instructions it generally
expects to run with NPHIE enabled. But if the parent process disables
NPHIE then if it's not careful it will be disabled for any children too
and the protection offered by hash checks is basically worthless.
This patch introduces a per-process reset value that new execs in a
particular process tree are initialized with. This enables fine grained
control over what DEXCR value child processes run with by default.
For example, containers running legacy binaries that expect hash
instructions to act as NOPs could configure the reset value of the
container root to control the default reset value for all members of
the container.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Add missing SPDX tag on dexcr.c]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240417112325.728010-4-bgray@linux.ibm.com
Add capability to make the DEXCR act as a per-process SPR.
We do not yet have an interface for changing the values per task. We
also expect the kernel to use a single DEXCR value across all tasks
while in privileged state, so there is no need to synchronize after
changing it (the userspace aspects will synchronize upon returning to
userspace).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240417112325.728010-3-bgray@linux.ibm.com
Before running a guest, the host process (e.g., QEMU) FP/VEC registers
are saved if they were being used, similarly to when the kernel uses FP
registers. The guest values are then loaded into regs, and the host
process registers will be restored lazily when it uses FP/VEC.
KVM HV has a bug here: the host process registers do get saved, but the
user MSR bits remain enabled, which indicates the registers are valid
for the process. After they are clobbered by running the guest, this
valid indication causes the host process to take on the FP/VEC register
values of the guest.
Fixes: 34e119c96b ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Reduce mtmsrd instructions required to save host SPRs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.17+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20231122025811.2973-1-npiggin@gmail.com
A thread started via eg. user_mode_thread() runs in the kernel to begin
with and then may later return to userspace. While it's running in the
kernel it has a pt_regs at the base of its kernel stack, but that
pt_regs is all zeroes.
If the thread oopses in that state, it leads to an ugly stack trace with
a big block of zero GPRs, as reported by Joel:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc7-00004-gf7757129e3de-dirty #3
Hardware name: IBM PowerNV (emulated by qemu) POWER9 0x4e1200 opal:v7.0 PowerNV
Call Trace:
[c0000000036afb00] [c0000000010dd058] dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x9c (unreliable)
[c0000000036afb30] [c00000000013c524] panic+0x178/0x424
[c0000000036afbd0] [c000000002005100] mount_root_generic+0x250/0x324
[c0000000036afca0] [c0000000020057d0] prepare_namespace+0x2d4/0x344
[c0000000036afd20] [c0000000020049c0] kernel_init_freeable+0x358/0x3ac
[c0000000036afdf0] [c0000000000111b0] kernel_init+0x30/0x1a0
[c0000000036afe50] [c00000000000debc] ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
--- interrupt: 0 at 0x0
NIP: 0000000000000000 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c0000000036afe80 TRAP: 0000 Not tainted (6.5.0-rc7-00004-gf7757129e3de-dirty)
MSR: 0000000000000000 <> CR: 00000000 XER: 00000000
CFAR: 0000000000000000 IRQMASK: 0
GPR00: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR12: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
NIP [0000000000000000] 0x0
LR [0000000000000000] 0x0
--- interrupt: 0
The all-zero pt_regs looks ugly and conveys no useful information, other
than its presence. So detect that case and just show the presence of the
frame by printing the interrupt marker, eg:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3-00126-g18e9506562a0-dirty #301
Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER9 (raw) 0x4e1202 0xf000005 of:SLOF,HEAD hv:linux,kvm pSeries
Call Trace:
[c000000003aabb00] [c000000001143db8] dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x9c (unreliable)
[c000000003aabb30] [c00000000014c624] panic+0x178/0x424
[c000000003aabbd0] [c0000000020050fc] mount_root_generic+0x250/0x324
[c000000003aabca0] [c0000000020057cc] prepare_namespace+0x2d4/0x344
[c000000003aabd20] [c0000000020049bc] kernel_init_freeable+0x358/0x3ac
[c000000003aabdf0] [c0000000000111b0] kernel_init+0x30/0x1a0
[c000000003aabe50] [c00000000000debc] ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
--- interrupt: 0 at 0x0
To avoid ever suppressing a valid pt_regs make sure the pt_regs has a
zero MSR and TRAP value, and is located at the very base of the stack.
Fixes: 6895dfc047 ("powerpc: copy_thread fill in interrupt frame marker and back chain")
Reported-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230824064210.907266-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
The ISA 3.1B hashst and hashchk instructions use a per-cpu SPR HASHKEYR
to hold a key used in the hash calculation. This key should be different
for each process to make it harder for a malicious process to recreate
valid hash values for a victim process.
Add support for storing a per-thread hash key, and setting/clearing
HASHKEYR appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230616034846.311705-6-bgray@linux.ibm.com
syscalls do not set the PPR field in their interrupt frame and
return from syscall always sets the default PPR for userspace,
so setting the value in the ret_from_fork frame is not necessary
and mildly inconsistent. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230325122904.2375060-9-npiggin@gmail.com
Kernel created user threads start similarly to kernel threads in that
they call a kernel function after first returning from _switch, so
they share ret_from_kernel_thread for this. Kernel threads never return
from that function though, whereas user threads often do (although some
don't, e.g., IO threads).
Split these startup functions in two, and catch kernel threads that
improperly return from their function. This is intended to make the
complicated code a little bit easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230325122904.2375060-7-npiggin@gmail.com
When copy_thread is given a kernel function to run in arg->fn, this
does not necessarily mean it is a kernel thread. User threads can be
created this way (e.g., kernel_init, see also x86's copy_thread()).
These threads run a kernel function which may call kernel_execve()
and return, which returns like a userspace exec(2) syscall.
Kernel threads are to be differentiated with PF_KTHREAD, will always
have arg->fn set, and should never return from that function, instead
calling kthread_exit() to exit.
Create separate paths for the kthread and user kernel thread creation
logic. The kthread path will never exit and does not require a user
interrupt frame, so it gets a minimal stack frame.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230325122904.2375060-6-npiggin@gmail.com
The kernel thread path in copy_thread creates a user interrupt frame on
stack and stores the function and arg parameters there, and
ret_from_kernel_thread loads them. This is a slightly confusing way to
overload that frame. Non-volatile registers are loaded from the switch
frame, so the parameters can be stored there. The user interrupt frame
is now only used by user threads when they return to user.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230325122904.2375060-4-npiggin@gmail.com
That test was introducted in 2006 by
commit 00ae36de49 ("[POWERPC] Better check in show_instructions").
At that time, there was no BPF progs.
As seen in message of commit 89d21e259a ("powerpc/bpf/32: Fix Oops
on tail call tests"), when a page fault occurs in test_bpf.ko for
instance, the code is dumped as XXXXXXXXs. Allthough
__kernel_text_address() checks is_bpf_text_address(), it seems it is
not enough.
Today, show_instructions() uses get_kernel_nofault() to read the code,
so there is no real need for additional verifications.
ARM64 and x86 don't do any additional check before dumping
instructions. Do the same and remove __kernel_text_address()
in show_instructions().
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4fd69ef7945518c3e27f96b95046a5c1468d35bf.1675245773.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add powerpc qspinlock implementation optimised for large system
scalability and paravirt. See the merge message for more details
- Enable objtool to be built on powerpc to generate mcount locations
- Use a temporary mm for code patching with the Radix MMU, so the
writable mapping is restricted to the patching CPU
- Add an option to build the 64-bit big-endian kernel with the ELFv2
ABI
- Sanitise user registers on interrupt entry on 64-bit Book3S
- Many other small features and fixes
Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Angel Iglesias, Benjamin Gray, Bjorn
Helgaas, Bo Liu, Chen Lifu, Christoph Hellwig, Christophe JAILLET,
Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Colin Ian King, Deming Wang,
Disha Goel, Dmitry Torokhov, Finn Thain, Geert Uytterhoeven, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Haowen Bai, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Kajol
Jain, Laurent Dufour, Li zeming, Miaoqian Lin, Michael Jeanson, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin,
Pali Rohár, Randy Dunlap, Rohan McLure, Russell Currey, Sathvika
Vasireddy, Shaomin Deng, Stephen Kitt, Stephen Rothwell, Thomas
Weißschuh, Tiezhu Yang, Uwe Kleine-König, Xie Shaowen, Xiu Jianfeng,
XueBing Chen, Yang Yingliang, Zhang Jiaming, ruanjinjie, Jessica Yu,
and Wolfram Sang.
* tag 'powerpc-6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (181 commits)
powerpc/code-patching: Fix oops with DEBUG_VM enabled
powerpc/qspinlock: Fix 32-bit build
powerpc/prom: Fix 32-bit build
powerpc/rtas: mandate RTAS syscall filtering
powerpc/rtas: define pr_fmt and convert printk call sites
powerpc/rtas: clean up includes
powerpc/rtas: clean up rtas_error_log_max initialization
powerpc/pseries/eeh: use correct API for error log size
powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term()
powerpc/rtas: avoid device tree lookups in rtas_os_term()
powerpc/rtasd: use correct OF API for event scan rate
powerpc/rtas: document rtas_call()
powerpc/pseries: unregister VPA when hot unplugging a CPU
powerpc/pseries: reset the RCU watchdogs after a LPM
powerpc: Take in account addition CPU node when building kexec FDT
powerpc: export the CPU node count
powerpc/cpuidle: Set CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING for snooze state
powerpc/dts/fsl: Fix pca954x i2c-mux node names
cxl: Remove unnecessary cxl_pci_window_alignment()
selftests/powerpc: Fix resource leaks
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