Patch "x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-get_user-use-pointer-masking-to-limit-speculation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Feb  8 03:32:24 CET 2018
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:02:54 -0800
Subject: x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation

From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>


(cherry picked from commit c7f631cb07e7da06ac1d231ca178452339e32a94)

Quoting Linus:

    I do think that it would be a good idea to very expressly document
    the fact that it's not that the user access itself is unsafe. I do
    agree that things like "get_user()" want to be protected, but not
    because of any direct bugs or problems with get_user() and friends,
    but simply because get_user() is an excellent source of a pointer
    that is obviously controlled from a potentially attacking user
    space. So it's a prime candidate for then finding _subsequent_
    accesses that can then be used to perturb the cache.

Unlike the __get_user() case get_user() includes the address limit check
near the pointer de-reference. With that locality the speculation can be
mitigated with pointer narrowing rather than a barrier, i.e.
array_index_nospec(). Where the narrowing is performed by:

	cmp %limit, %ptr
	sbb %mask, %mask
	and %mask, %ptr

With respect to speculation the value of %ptr is either less than %limit
or NULL.

Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727417469.33451.11804043010080838495.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/lib/getuser.S |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/lib/getuser.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/getuser.S
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_1)
 	mov PER_CPU_VAR(current_task), %_ASM_DX
 	cmp TASK_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX
 	jae bad_get_user
+	sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX		/* array_index_mask_nospec() */
+	and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX
 	ASM_STAC
 1:	movzbl (%_ASM_AX),%edx
 	xor %eax,%eax
@@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_2)
 	mov PER_CPU_VAR(current_task), %_ASM_DX
 	cmp TASK_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX
 	jae bad_get_user
+	sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX		/* array_index_mask_nospec() */
+	and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX
 	ASM_STAC
 2:	movzwl -1(%_ASM_AX),%edx
 	xor %eax,%eax
@@ -67,6 +71,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_4)
 	mov PER_CPU_VAR(current_task), %_ASM_DX
 	cmp TASK_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX
 	jae bad_get_user
+	sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX		/* array_index_mask_nospec() */
+	and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX
 	ASM_STAC
 3:	movl -3(%_ASM_AX),%edx
 	xor %eax,%eax
@@ -82,6 +88,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_8)
 	mov PER_CPU_VAR(current_task), %_ASM_DX
 	cmp TASK_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX
 	jae bad_get_user
+	sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX		/* array_index_mask_nospec() */
+	and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX
 	ASM_STAC
 4:	movq -7(%_ASM_AX),%rdx
 	xor %eax,%eax
@@ -93,6 +101,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_8)
 	mov PER_CPU_VAR(current_task), %_ASM_DX
 	cmp TASK_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX
 	jae bad_get_user_8
+	sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX		/* array_index_mask_nospec() */
+	and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX
 	ASM_STAC
 4:	movl -7(%_ASM_AX),%edx
 5:	movl -3(%_ASM_AX),%ecx


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are

queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-add-ibpb-support.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-svm-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch
queue-4.9/x86-paravirt-remove-noreplace-paravirt-cmdline-option.patch
queue-4.9/documentation-document-array_index_nospec.patch
queue-4.9/x86-usercopy-replace-open-coded-stac-clac-with-__uaccess_-begin-end.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.9/vfs-fdtable-prevent-bounds-check-bypass-via-speculative-execution.patch
queue-4.9/x86-uaccess-use-__uaccess_begin_nospec-and-uaccess_try_nospec.patch
queue-4.9/x86-implement-array_index_mask_nospec.patch
queue-4.9/array_index_nospec-sanitize-speculative-array-de-references.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.9/x86-kvm-update-spectre-v1-mitigation.patch
queue-4.9/x86-get_user-use-pointer-masking-to-limit-speculation.patch
queue-4.9/x86-syscall-sanitize-syscall-table-de-references-under-speculation.patch
queue-4.9/x86-spectre-report-get_user-mitigation-for-spectre_v1.patch
queue-4.9/x86-introduce-barrier_nospec.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-emulate-msr_ia32_arch_capabilities.patch
queue-4.9/x86-introduce-__uaccess_begin_nospec-and-uaccess_try_nospec.patch
queue-4.9/nl80211-sanitize-array-index-in-parse_txq_params.patch