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* [PATCH v2 0/4] PAN for ARM32 using LPAE
@ 2024-02-20 23:03 Linus Walleij
  2024-02-20 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: Add TTBCR_* definitions to pgtable-3level-hwdef.h Linus Walleij
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Linus Walleij @ 2024-02-20 23:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Russell King, Ard Biesheuvel, Arnd Bergmann, Stefan Wahren,
	Kees Cook, Geert Uytterhoeven
  Cc: linux-arm-kernel, Linus Walleij, Catalin Marinas

This is a patch set from Catalin that ended up on the back burner.

Since LPAE systems, i.e. ARM32 systems with a lot of physical memory,
will be with us for a while more, this is a pretty straight-forward
hardening measure that we should support.

The last patch explains the mechanism: since PAN using CPU domains
isn't available when using the LPAE MMU tables, we use the split
between the two translation base tables instead: TTBR0 is for
userspace pages and TTBR1 is for kernelspace tables. When executing
in kernelspace: we protect userspace by simply disabling page
walks in TTBR0.

The simplest way to test a PAN crash:
- Enable CONFIG_LKDTM
- echo "ACCESS_USERSPACE" | cat >/sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
- echo "EXEC_USERSPACE" | cat >/sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT

This was also tested by a simple hack in the ELF loader:

create_elf_tables()
+       unsigned char *test;
(...)
        if (copy_to_user(u_rand_bytes, k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes)))
                return -EFAULT;
+       /* Cause a kernelspace access to userspace memory */
+       test = (char *)u_rand_bytes;
+       pr_info("Some byte: %02x\n", *test);

This tries to read a byte from userspace memory right after the
first unconditional copy_to_user(), a function that carefully
switches access permissions if we're using PAN.

Without LPAE PAN this will just happily print these bytes from
userspace but with LPAE PAN it will cause a predictable
crash:

Run /init as init process
Some byte: ac
8<--- cut here ---
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7ec59f6b when read
[7ec59f6b] *pgd=82c3b003, *pmd=82863003, *pte=e00000882f6f5f
Internal error: Oops: 206 [#1] SMP ARM
CPU: 0 PID: 47 Comm: rc.init Not tainted 6.7.0-rc1+ #25
Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
PC is at create_elf_tables+0x13c/0x608

Thus we can show that LPAE PAN does its job.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
---
Changes in v1 (from Catalins original patch set):
- Use IS_ENABLED() to avoid some ifdefs
Changes in v2:
- Make the TTBCR a separate field in struct svc_pt_regs as requested
  by Russell. Adjust code accordingly.
- Push the MM page fault permission check into a local function
  and avoid the too generic uaccess_disabled() as requested by Ard.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-arm32-lpae-pan-v1-0-7ea98a20514c@linaro.org

---
Catalin Marinas (4):
      ARM: Add TTBCR_* definitions to pgtable-3level-hwdef.h
      ARM: Move asm statements accessing TTBCR into C functions
      ARM: Reduce the number of #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN
      ARM: Implement privileged no-access using TTBR0 page table walks disabling

 arch/arm/Kconfig                            | 22 +++++++++--
 arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h            |  1 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level-hwdef.h | 26 +++++++++++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h             | 12 ++++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h               |  1 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess-asm.h          | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h              | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c               |  1 +
 arch/arm/kernel/suspend.c                   |  8 ++++
 arch/arm/lib/csumpartialcopyuser.S          | 20 +++++++++-
 arch/arm/mm/fault.c                         | 29 +++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/mm/mmu.c                           |  7 ++--
 12 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 6613476e225e090cc9aad49be7fa504e290dd33d
change-id: 20231216-arm32-lpae-pan-56125ab63d63

Best regards,
-- 
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>


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