Commit-ID: 6ea59b074f15e7ef4b042a108950861b383e7b02 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/6ea59b074f15e7ef4b042a108950861b383e7b02 Author: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> AuthorDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:45:30 -0800 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> CommitDate: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:44:29 +0100
x86/fault: Improve the condition for signalling vs OOPSing __bad_area_nosemaphore() currently checks the X86_PF_USER bit in the error code to decide whether to send a signal or to treat the fault as a kernel error. This can cause somewhat erratic behavior. The straightforward cases where the CPL agrees with the hardware USER bit are all correct, but the other cases are confusing. - A user instruction accessing a kernel address with supervisor privilege (e.g. a descriptor table access failed). The USER bit will be clear, and we OOPS. This is correct, because it indicates a kernel bug, not a user error. - A user instruction accessing a user address with supervisor privilege (e.g. a descriptor table was incorrectly pointing at user memory). __bad_area_nosemaphore() will be passed a modified error code with the user bit set, and we will send a signal. Sending the signal will work (because the regs and the entry frame genuinely come from user mode), but we really ought to OOPS, as this event indicates a severe kernel bug. - A kernel instruction with user privilege (i.e. WRUSS). This should OOPS or get fixed up. The current code would instead try send a signal and malfunction. Change the logic: a signal should be sent if the faulting context is user mode *and* the access has user privilege. Otherwise it's either a kernel mode fault or a failed implicit access, either of which should end up in no_context(). Note to -stable maintainers: don't backport this unless you backport CET. The bug it fixes is unobservable in current kernels unless something is extremely wrong. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng...@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/10e509c43893170e262e82027ea399130ae81159.1542667307.git.l...@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index 7a69b66cf071..3c9aed03d18e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, struct task_struct *tsk = current; /* User mode accesses just cause a SIGSEGV */ - if (error_code & X86_PF_USER) { + if (user_mode(regs) && (error_code & X86_PF_USER)) { /* * It's possible to have interrupts off here: */
