Re: [PATCH 2/2] s390: mm: Fix secure storage access exception handling

Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-19T10:25:01Z

On 19.01.21 11:04, Janosch Frank wrote:
> Turns out that the bit 61 in the TEID is not always 1 and if that's
> the case the address space ID and the address are
> unpredictable. Without an address and it's address space ID we can't
> export memory and hence we can only send a SIGSEGV to the process or
> panic the kernel depending on who caused the exception.
>
> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
> Fixes: 084ea4d611a3d ("s390/mm: add (non)secure page access exceptions handlers")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

some small things to consider (or to reject)

> ---
> arch/s390/mm/fault.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> index e30c7c781172..5442937e5b4b 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> @@ -791,6 +791,20 @@ void do_secure_storage_access(struct pt_regs *regs)
> struct page *page;
> int rc;
>
> + /* There are cases where we don't have a TEID. */
> + if (!(regs->int_parm_long & 0x4)) {
> + /*
> + * Userspace could for example try to execute secure
> + * storage and trigger this. We should tell it that it
> + * shouldn't do that.

Maybe something like
/*
* when this happens, userspace did something that it
* was not supposed to do, e.g. branching into secure
* secure memory. Trigger a segmentation fault.
> + */
> + if (user_mode(regs)) {
> + send_sig(SIGSEGV, current, 0);
> + return;
> + } else
> + panic("Unexpected PGM 0x3d with TEID bit 61=0");

use BUG instead of panic? That would kill this process, but it allows
people to maybe save unaffected data.