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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: the usage of __SYSCALL_MASK in entry_SYSCALL_64/do_syscall_64 is not consistent
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 19:53:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160620175311.GA24505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXsg+5OencMrMrr6qZ8YmYj7UWqeAJMESHa5NqNMfcokg@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/19, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Something's clearly buggy there,

The usage of __X32_SYSCALL_BIT doesn't look right too. Nothing serious
but still.

Damn, initially I thought I have found the serious bug in entry_64.S
and it took me some time to understand why my exploit doesn't work ;)
So I learned that

	andl    $__SYSCALL_MASK, %eax

in entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath() zero-extends %rax and thus

	cmpl    $__NR_syscall_max, %eax
	...
	call    *sys_call_table(, %rax, 8)

is correct (rax <= __NR_syscall_max).

OK, so entry_64.S simply "ignores" the upper bits if CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI.
Fine, but this doesn't match the

	if (likely((nr & __SYSCALL_MASK) < NR_syscalls))

check in do_syscall_64(). So this test-case

	#include <stdio.h>

	int main(void)
	{
		// __NR_exit == 0x3c
		asm volatile ("movq $0xFFFFFFFF0000003c, %rax; syscall");

		printf("I didn't exit because I am traced\n");

		return 0;
	}

silently exits if not traced, otherwise it calls printf().

Should we do something or we do not care?

Oleg.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-20 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-18 10:21 [PATCH] x86/ptrace: Remove questionable TS_COMPAT usage in ptrace Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-18 13:55 ` Pedro Alves
2016-06-18 14:41   ` Pedro Alves
2016-06-18 17:02   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-19 22:09     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-20 10:27       ` Pedro Alves
2016-06-20 15:24       ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-06-20 16:30         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-20 16:14           ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-06-20 17:25             ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-20 10:07     ` Pedro Alves
2016-06-20 11:12       ` Jan Kratochvil
2016-06-18 17:48 ` Kees Cook
2016-06-19 21:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-06-19 22:23   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-20  6:12   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-06-20 15:31     ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-06-20 17:53     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2016-06-21 19:01       ` the usage of __SYSCALL_MASK in entry_SYSCALL_64/do_syscall_64 is not consistent Kees Cook

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