3.2.101-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Dan Williams <[email protected]> commit c7f631cb07e7da06ac1d231ca178452339e32a94 upstream. 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727417469.33451.11804043010080838495.st...@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Drop changes to 32-bit implementation of __get_user_8 - Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/lib/getuser.S | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/lib/getuser.S +++ b/arch/x86/lib/getuser.S @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_1) GET_THREAD_INFO(%_ASM_DX) cmp TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX jae bad_get_user + sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX /* array_index_mask_nospec() */ + and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX 1: movzb (%_ASM_AX),%edx xor %eax,%eax ret @@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_2) GET_THREAD_INFO(%_ASM_DX) cmp TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX jae bad_get_user + sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX /* array_index_mask_nospec() */ + and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX 2: movzwl -1(%_ASM_AX),%edx xor %eax,%eax ret @@ -66,6 +70,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_4) GET_THREAD_INFO(%_ASM_DX) cmp TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX jae bad_get_user + sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX /* array_index_mask_nospec() */ + and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX 3: mov -3(%_ASM_AX),%edx xor %eax,%eax ret @@ -80,6 +86,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_8) GET_THREAD_INFO(%_ASM_DX) cmp TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX jae bad_get_user + sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX /* array_index_mask_nospec() */ + and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX 4: movq -7(%_ASM_AX),%_ASM_DX xor %eax,%eax ret
