[PATCH v5 06/10] x86/alternative: use temporary mm for text poking

Nadav Amit
2018-11-13T20:26:03Z

text_poke() can potentially compromise the security as it sets temporary
PTEs in the fixmap. These PTEs might be used to rewrite the kernel code
from other cores accidentally or maliciously, if an attacker gains the
ability to write onto kernel memory.

Moreover, since remote TLBs are not flushed after the temporary PTEs are
removed, the time-window in which the code is writable is not limited if
the fixmap PTEs - maliciously or accidentally - are cached in the TLB.
To address these potential security hazards, we use a temporary mm for
patching the code.

Finally, text_poke() is also not conservative enough when mapping pages,
as it always tries to map 2 pages, even when a single one is sufficient.
So try to be more conservative, and do not map more than needed.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h | 2 -
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 2 -
3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
index 50ba74a34a37..9da8cccdf3fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
@@ -103,8 +103,6 @@ enum fixed_addresses {
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
FIX_PARAVIRT_BOOTMAP,
#endif
- FIX_TEXT_POKE1, /* reserve 2 pages for text_poke() */
- FIX_TEXT_POKE0, /* first page is last, because allocation is backward */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID
FIX_LNW_VRTC,
#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index d3ae5c26e5a0..96607ef285c3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/stop_machine.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/kdebug.h>
+#include <linux/mmu_context.h>
#include <asm/text-patching.h>
#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
@@ -683,43 +684,108 @@ __ro_after_init unsigned long poking_addr;

static int __text_poke(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len)
{
+ bool cross_page_boundary = offset_in_page(addr) + len > PAGE_SIZE;
+ temporary_mm_state_t prev;
+ struct page *pages[2] = {NULL};
unsigned long flags;
- char *vaddr;
- struct page *pages[2];
- int i, r = 0;
+ pte_t pte, *ptep;
+ spinlock_t *ptl;
+ int r = 0;

/*
- * While boot memory allocator is runnig we cannot use struct
- * pages as they are not yet initialized.
+ * While boot memory allocator is running we cannot use struct pages as
+ * they are not yet initialized.
*/
BUG_ON(!after_bootmem);

if (!core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr)) {
pages[0] = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
- pages[1] = vmalloc_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (cross_page_boundary)
+ pages[1] = vmalloc_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
} else {
pages[0] = virt_to_page(addr);
WARN_ON(!PageReserved(pages[0]));
- pages[1] = virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (cross_page_boundary)
+ pages[1] = virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
}
- if (!pages[0])
+
+ if (!pages[0] || (cross_page_boundary && !pages[1]))
return -EFAULT;
+
local_irq_save(flags);
- set_fixmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE0, page_to_phys(pages[0]));
- if (pages[1])
- set_fixmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE1, page_to_phys(pages[1]));
- vaddr = (char *)fix_to_virt(FIX_TEXT_POKE0);
- memcpy(&vaddr[(unsigned long)addr & ~PAGE_MASK], opcode, len);
- clear_fixmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE0);
- if (pages[1])
- clear_fixmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE1);
- local_flush_tlb();
- sync_core();
- /* Could also do a CLFLUSH here to speed up CPU recovery; but
- that causes hangs on some VIA CPUs. */
- for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
- if (((char *)addr)[i] != ((char *)opcode)[i])
- r = -EFAULT;
+
+ /*
+ * The lock is not really needed, but this allows to avoid open-coding.
+ */
+ ptep = get_locked_pte(poking_mm, poking_addr, &ptl);
+
+ /*
+ * If we failed to allocate a PTE, fail. This should *never* happen,
+ * since we preallocate the PTE.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ptep))
+ goto out;
+
+ pte = mk_pte(pages[0], PAGE_KERNEL);
+ set_pte_at(poking_mm, poking_addr, ptep, pte);
+
+ if (cross_page_boundary) {
+ pte = mk_pte(pages[1], PAGE_KERNEL);
+ set_pte_at(poking_mm, poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE, ptep + 1, pte);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Loading the temporary mm behaves as a compiler barrier, which
+ * guarantees that the PTE will be set at the time memcpy() is done.
+ */
+ prev = use_temporary_mm(poking_mm);
+
+ kasan_disable_current();
+ memcpy((u8 *)poking_addr + offset_in_page(addr), opcode, len);
+ kasan_enable_current();
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that the PTE is only cleared after the instructions of memcpy
+ * were issued by using a compiler barrier.
+ */
+ barrier();
+
+ pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr, ptep);
+
+ /*
+ * __flush_tlb_one_user() performs a redundant TLB flush when PTI is on,
+ * as it also flushes the corresponding "user" address spaces, which
+ * does not exist.
+ *
+ * Poking, however, is already very inefficient since it does not try to
+ * batch updates, so we ignore this problem for the time being.
+ *
+ * Since the PTEs do not exist in other kernel address-spaces, we do
+ * not use __flush_tlb_one_kernel(), which when PTI is on would cause
+ * more unwarranted TLB flushes.
+ *
+ * There is a slight anomaly here: the PTE is a supervisor-only and
+ * (potentially) global and we use __flush_tlb_one_user() but this
+ * should be fine.
+ */
+ __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr);
+ if (cross_page_boundary) {
+ pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE, ptep + 1);
+ __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Loading the previous page-table hierarchy requires a serializing
+ * instruction that already allows the core to see the updated version.
+ * Xen-PV is assumed to serialize execution in a similar manner.
+ */
+ unuse_temporary_mm(prev);
+
+ pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
+out:
+ if (memcmp(addr, opcode, len))
+ r = -EFAULT;
+
local_irq_restore(flags);
return r;
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
index a5d7ed125337..e9b474c396d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
@@ -2318,8 +2318,6 @@ static void xen_set_fixmap(unsigned idx, phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t prot)
#elif defined(CONFIG_X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION)
case VSYSCALL_PAGE:
#endif
- case FIX_TEXT_POKE0:
- case FIX_TEXT_POKE1:
/* All local page mappings */
pte = pfn_pte(phys, prot);
break;
--
2.17.1