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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2023-02-21 12:30:15 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-02-25 11:25:41 +0100
commit684db631a15779c8f3b2235d507efdfe6bb10278 (patch)
tree111a1270a3160b9e20e74412b4499efa91daca73 /kernel
parent173cadcece7601e464b29e08289a668b1ff3da73 (diff)
downloadlinux-684db631a15779c8f3b2235d507efdfe6bb10278.tar.gz
uaccess: Add speculation barrier to copy_from_user()
commit 74e19ef0ff8061ef55957c3abd71614ef0f42f47 upstream.

The results of "access_ok()" can be mis-speculated.  The result is that
you can end speculatively:

	if (access_ok(from, size))
		// Right here

even for bad from/size combinations.  On first glance, it would be ideal
to just add a speculation barrier to "access_ok()" so that its results
can never be mis-speculated.

But there are lots of system calls just doing access_ok() via
"copy_to_user()" and friends (example: fstat() and friends).  Those are
generally not problematic because they do not _consume_ data from
userspace other than the pointer.  They are also very quick and common
system calls that should not be needlessly slowed down.

"copy_from_user()" on the other hand uses a user-controller pointer and
is frequently followed up with code that might affect caches.  Take
something like this:

	if (!copy_from_user(&kernelvar, uptr, size))
		do_something_with(kernelvar);

If userspace passes in an evil 'uptr' that *actually* points to a kernel
addresses, and then do_something_with() has cache (or other)
side-effects, it could allow userspace to infer kernel data values.

Add a barrier to the common copy_from_user() code to prevent
mis-speculated values which happen after the copy.

Also add a stub for architectures that do not define barrier_nospec().
This makes the macro usable in generic code.

Since the barrier is now usable in generic code, the x86 #ifdef in the
BPF code can also go away.

Reported-by: Jordy Zomer <jordyzomer@google.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>   # BPF bits
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/bpf/core.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/core.c b/kernel/bpf/core.c
index 17ab3e15ac25..35201007718c 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -1908,9 +1908,7 @@ out:
 		 * reuse preexisting logic from Spectre v1 mitigation that
 		 * happens to produce the required code on x86 for v4 as well.
 		 */
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86
 		barrier_nospec();
-#endif
 		CONT;
 #define LDST(SIZEOP, SIZE)						\
 	STX_MEM_##SIZEOP:						\