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* [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/mm: Don't alias user region to other regions below PAGE_OFFSET
@ 2016-09-02 11:47 Paul Mackerras
  2016-09-02 11:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/mm: Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address Paul Mackerras
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From: Paul Mackerras @ 2016-09-02 11:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev; +Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V

In commit c60ac5693c47 ("powerpc: Update kernel VSID range", 2013-03-13)
we lost a check on the region number (the top four bits of the effective
address) for addresses below PAGE_OFFSET.  That commit replaced a check
that the top 18 bits were all zero with a check that bits 46 - 59 were
zero (performed for all addresses, not just user addresses).

This means that userspace can access an address like 0x1000_0xxx_xxxx_xxxx
and we will insert a valid SLB entry for it.  The VSID used will be the
same as if the top 4 bits were 0, but the page size will be some random
value obtained by indexing beyond the end of the mm_ctx_high_slices_psize
array in the paca.  If that page size is the same as would be used for
region 0, then userspace just has an alias of the region 0 space.  If the
page size is different, then no HPTE will be found for the access, and
the process will get a SIGSEGV (since hash_page_mm() will refuse to create
a HPTE for the bogus address).

The access beyond the end of the mm_ctx_high_slices_psize can be at most
5.5MB past the array, and so will be in RAM somewhere.  Since the access
is a load performed in real mode, it won't fault or crash the kernel.
At most this bug could perhaps leak a little bit of information about
blocks of 32 bytes of memory located at offsets of i * 512kB past the
paca->mm_ctx_high_slices_psize array, for 1 <= i <= 11.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
index dfdb90c..9f19834 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
@@ -113,7 +113,12 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 END_MMU_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(MMU_FTR_1T_SEGMENT)
 	b	slb_finish_load_1T
 
-0:
+0:	/*
+	 * For userspace addresses, make sure this is region 0.
+	 */
+	cmpdi	r9, 0
+	bne	8f
+
 	/* when using slices, we extract the psize off the slice bitmaps
 	 * and then we need to get the sllp encoding off the mmu_psize_defs
 	 * array.
-- 
2.7.4

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2016-09-04 11:30   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-07  5:52     ` Paul Mackerras
2016-09-13 12:16   ` [2/3] " Michael Ellerman
2016-09-02 11:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/mm: Speed up computation of base and actual page size for a HPTE Paul Mackerras
2016-09-04 11:16   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-05  5:04   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-07  5:07     ` Paul Mackerras
2016-09-07  6:17   ` [PATCH v2 " Paul Mackerras
2016-09-08 10:08     ` Paul Mackerras
2016-09-08 10:16       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-12  0:58         ` Paul Mackerras
2016-09-12  3:03         ` Michael Ellerman
2016-09-12  9:45           ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-02 12:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/mm: Don't alias user region to other regions below PAGE_OFFSET Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-03  9:54   ` Paul Mackerras
2016-09-04 11:31     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-09-08  9:47 ` [1/3] " Michael Ellerman

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