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<title>arm64: Mark __stack_chk_guard as __ro_after_init</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T13:31:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Li</name>
<email>ashimida@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-14T09:44:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9fcb2e93f41c07a400885325e7dbdfceba6efaec ]

__stack_chk_guard is setup once while init stage and never changed
after that.

Although the modification of this variable at runtime will usually
cause the kernel to crash (so does the attacker), it should be marked
as __ro_after_init, and it should not affect performance if it is
placed in the ro_after_init section.

Signed-off-by: Dan Li &lt;ashimida@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1631612642-102881-1-git-send-email-ashimida@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9fcb2e93f41c07a400885325e7dbdfceba6efaec ]

__stack_chk_guard is setup once while init stage and never changed
after that.

Although the modification of this variable at runtime will usually
cause the kernel to crash (so does the attacker), it should be marked
as __ro_after_init, and it should not affect performance if it is
placed in the ro_after_init section.

Signed-off-by: Dan Li &lt;ashimida@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1631612642-102881-1-git-send-email-ashimida@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: ssbs: Fix context-switch when SSBS is present on all CPUs</title>
<updated>2020-02-19T18:51:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-06T10:42:58+00:00</published>
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commit fca3d33d8ad61eb53eca3ee4cac476d1e31b9008 upstream.

When all CPUs in the system implement the SSBS extension, the SSBS field
in PSTATE is the definitive indication of the mitigation state. Further,
when the CPUs implement the SSBS manipulation instructions (advertised
to userspace via an HWCAP), EL0 can toggle the SSBS field directly and
so we cannot rely on any shadow state such as TIF_SSBD at all.

Avoid forcing the SSBS field in context-switch on such a system, and
simply rely on the PSTATE register instead.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Srinivas Ramana &lt;sramana@codeaurora.org&gt;
Fixes: cbdf8a189a66 ("arm64: Force SSBS on context switch")
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fca3d33d8ad61eb53eca3ee4cac476d1e31b9008 upstream.

When all CPUs in the system implement the SSBS extension, the SSBS field
in PSTATE is the definitive indication of the mitigation state. Further,
when the CPUs implement the SSBS manipulation instructions (advertised
to userspace via an HWCAP), EL0 can toggle the SSBS field directly and
so we cannot rely on any shadow state such as TIF_SSBD at all.

Avoid forcing the SSBS field in context-switch on such a system, and
simply rely on the PSTATE register instead.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Srinivas Ramana &lt;sramana@codeaurora.org&gt;
Fixes: cbdf8a189a66 ("arm64: Force SSBS on context switch")
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Fix wrong free for task-&gt;thread.sve_state</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:45:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masayoshi Mizuma</name>
<email>m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-30T20:56:00+00:00</published>
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commit 4585fc59c0e813188d6a4c5de1f6976fce461fc2 upstream.

The system which has SVE feature crashed because of
the memory pointed by task-&gt;thread.sve_state was destroyed
by someone.

That is because sve_state is freed while the forking the
child process. The child process has the pointer of sve_state
which is same as the parent's because the child's task_struct
is copied from the parent's one. If the copy_process()
fails as an error on somewhere, for example, copy_creds(),
then the sve_state is freed even if the parent is alive.
The flow is as follows.

copy_process
        p = dup_task_struct
            =&gt; arch_dup_task_struct
                *dst = *src;  // copy the entire region.
:
        retval = copy_creds
        if (retval &lt; 0)
                goto bad_fork_free;
:
bad_fork_free:
...
        delayed_free_task(p);
          =&gt; free_task
             =&gt; arch_release_task_struct
                =&gt; fpsimd_release_task
                   =&gt; __sve_free
                      =&gt; kfree(task-&gt;thread.sve_state);
                         // free the parent's sve_state

Move child's sve_state = NULL and clearing TIF_SVE flag
to arch_dup_task_struct() so that the child doesn't free the
parent's one.
There is no need to wait until copy_process() to clear TIF_SVE for
dst, because the thread flags for dst are initialized already by
copying the src task_struct.
This change simplifies the code, so get rid of comments that are no
longer needed.

As a note, arm64 used to have thread_info on the stack. So it
would not be possible to clear TIF_SVE until the stack is initialized.
From commit c02433dd6de3 ("arm64: split thread_info from task stack"),
the thread_info is part of the task, so it should be valid to modify
the flag from arch_dup_task_struct().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15.x-
Fixes: bc0ee4760364 ("arm64/sve: Core task context handling")
Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4585fc59c0e813188d6a4c5de1f6976fce461fc2 upstream.

The system which has SVE feature crashed because of
the memory pointed by task-&gt;thread.sve_state was destroyed
by someone.

That is because sve_state is freed while the forking the
child process. The child process has the pointer of sve_state
which is same as the parent's because the child's task_struct
is copied from the parent's one. If the copy_process()
fails as an error on somewhere, for example, copy_creds(),
then the sve_state is freed even if the parent is alive.
The flow is as follows.

copy_process
        p = dup_task_struct
            =&gt; arch_dup_task_struct
                *dst = *src;  // copy the entire region.
:
        retval = copy_creds
        if (retval &lt; 0)
                goto bad_fork_free;
:
bad_fork_free:
...
        delayed_free_task(p);
          =&gt; free_task
             =&gt; arch_release_task_struct
                =&gt; fpsimd_release_task
                   =&gt; __sve_free
                      =&gt; kfree(task-&gt;thread.sve_state);
                         // free the parent's sve_state

Move child's sve_state = NULL and clearing TIF_SVE flag
to arch_dup_task_struct() so that the child doesn't free the
parent's one.
There is no need to wait until copy_process() to clear TIF_SVE for
dst, because the thread flags for dst are initialized already by
copying the src task_struct.
This change simplifies the code, so get rid of comments that are no
longer needed.

As a note, arm64 used to have thread_info on the stack. So it
would not be possible to clear TIF_SVE until the stack is initialized.
From commit c02433dd6de3 ("arm64: split thread_info from task stack"),
the thread_info is part of the task, so it should be valid to modify
the flag from arch_dup_task_struct().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15.x-
Fixes: bc0ee4760364 ("arm64/sve: Core task context handling")
Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Force SSBS on context switch</title>
<updated>2019-10-11T16:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-08T15:39:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cbdf8a189a66001c36007bf0f5c975d0376c5c3a ]

On a CPU that doesn't support SSBS, PSTATE[12] is RES0.  In a system
where only some of the CPUs implement SSBS, we end-up losing track of
the SSBS bit across task migration.

To address this issue, let's force the SSBS bit on context switch.

Fixes: 8f04e8e6e29c ("arm64: ssbd: Add support for PSTATE.SSBS rather than trapping to EL3")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
[will: inverted logic and added comments]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cbdf8a189a66001c36007bf0f5c975d0376c5c3a ]

On a CPU that doesn't support SSBS, PSTATE[12] is RES0.  In a system
where only some of the CPUs implement SSBS, we end-up losing track of
the SSBS bit across task migration.

To address this issue, let's force the SSBS bit on context switch.

Fixes: 8f04e8e6e29c ("arm64: ssbd: Add support for PSTATE.SSBS rather than trapping to EL3")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
[will: inverted logic and added comments]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: ssbd: Add support for PSTATE.SSBS rather than trapping to EL3</title>
<updated>2019-10-11T16:21:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-08T15:39:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8f04e8e6e29c93421a95b61cad62e3918425eac7 ]

On CPUs with support for PSTATE.SSBS, the kernel can toggle the SSBD
state without needing to call into firmware.

This patch hooks into the existing SSBD infrastructure so that SSBS is
used on CPUs that support it, but it's all made horribly complicated by
the very real possibility of big/little systems that don't uniformly
provide the new capability.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8f04e8e6e29c93421a95b61cad62e3918425eac7 ]

On CPUs with support for PSTATE.SSBS, the kernel can toggle the SSBD
state without needing to call into firmware.

This patch hooks into the existing SSBD infrastructure so that SSBS is
used on CPUs that support it, but it's all made horribly complicated by
the very real possibility of big/little systems that don't uniformly
provide the new capability.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Add support for STACKLEAK gcc plugin</title>
<updated>2018-07-26T10:36:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laura Abbott</name>
<email>labbott@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-20T21:41:54+00:00</published>
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This adds support for the STACKLEAK gcc plugin to arm64 by implementing
stackleak_check_alloca(), based heavily on the x86 version, and adding the
two helpers used by the stackleak common code: current_top_of_stack() and
on_thread_stack(). The stack erasure calls are made at syscall returns.
Additionally, this disables the plugin in hypervisor and EFI stub code,
which are out of scope for the protection.

Acked-by: Alexander Popov &lt;alex.popov@linux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This adds support for the STACKLEAK gcc plugin to arm64 by implementing
stackleak_check_alloca(), based heavily on the x86 version, and adding the
two helpers used by the stackleak common code: current_top_of_stack() and
on_thread_stack(). The stack erasure calls are made at syscall returns.
Additionally, this disables the plugin in hypervisor and EFI stub code,
which are out of scope for the protection.

Acked-by: Alexander Popov &lt;alex.popov@linux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: use PSR_AA32 definitions</title>
<updated>2018-07-05T16:24:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-05T14:16:52+00:00</published>
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Some code cares about the SPSR_ELx format for exceptions taken from
AArch32 to inspect or manipulate the SPSR_ELx value, which is already in
the SPSR_ELx format, and not in the AArch32 PSR format.

To separate these from cases where we care about the AArch32 PSR format,
migrate these cases to use the PSR_AA32_* definitions rather than
COMPAT_PSR_*.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Some code cares about the SPSR_ELx format for exceptions taken from
AArch32 to inspect or manipulate the SPSR_ELx value, which is already in
the SPSR_ELx format, and not in the AArch32 PSR format.

To separate these from cases where we care about the AArch32 PSR format,
migrate these cases to use the PSR_AA32_* definitions rather than
COMPAT_PSR_*.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables</title>
<updated>2018-06-14T03:21:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-14T03:21:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=050e9baa9dc9fbd9ce2b27f0056990fc9e0a08a0'/>
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The changes to automatically test for working stack protector compiler
support in the Kconfig files removed the special STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
option that picked the strongest stack protector that the compiler
supported.

That was all a nice cleanup - it makes no sense to have the AUTO case
now that the Kconfig phase can just determine the compiler support
directly.

HOWEVER.

It also meant that doing "make oldconfig" would now _disable_ the strong
stackprotector if you had AUTO enabled, because in a legacy config file,
the sane stack protector configuration would look like

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO=y

and when you ran this through "make oldconfig" with the Kbuild changes,
it would ask you about the regular CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR (that had
been renamed from CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR to just
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR), but it would think that the STRONG version
used to be disabled (because it was really enabled by AUTO), and would
disable it in the new config, resulting in:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

That's dangerously subtle - people could suddenly find themselves with
the weaker stack protector setup without even realizing.

The solution here is to just rename not just the old RECULAR stack
protector option, but also the strong one.  This does that by just
removing the CC_ prefix entirely for the user choices, because it really
is not about the compiler support (the compiler support now instead
automatially impacts _visibility_ of the options to users).

This results in "make oldconfig" actually asking the user for their
choice, so that we don't have any silent subtle security model changes.
The end result would generally look like this:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

where the "CC_" versions really are about internal compiler
infrastructure, not the user selections.

Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The changes to automatically test for working stack protector compiler
support in the Kconfig files removed the special STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
option that picked the strongest stack protector that the compiler
supported.

That was all a nice cleanup - it makes no sense to have the AUTO case
now that the Kconfig phase can just determine the compiler support
directly.

HOWEVER.

It also meant that doing "make oldconfig" would now _disable_ the strong
stackprotector if you had AUTO enabled, because in a legacy config file,
the sane stack protector configuration would look like

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO=y

and when you ran this through "make oldconfig" with the Kbuild changes,
it would ask you about the regular CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR (that had
been renamed from CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR to just
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR), but it would think that the STRONG version
used to be disabled (because it was really enabled by AUTO), and would
disable it in the new config, resulting in:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

That's dangerously subtle - people could suddenly find themselves with
the weaker stack protector setup without even realizing.

The solution here is to just rename not just the old RECULAR stack
protector option, but also the strong one.  This does that by just
removing the CC_ prefix entirely for the user choices, because it really
is not about the compiler support (the compiler support now instead
automatially impacts _visibility_ of the options to users).

This results in "make oldconfig" actually asking the user for their
choice, so that we don't have any silent subtle security model changes.
The end result would generally look like this:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

where the "CC_" versions really are about internal compiler
infrastructure, not the user selections.

Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: uaccess: Fix omissions from usercopy whitelist</title>
<updated>2018-03-28T14:25:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-28T09:50:49+00:00</published>
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When the hardend usercopy support was added for arm64, it was
concluded that all cases of usercopy into and out of thread_struct
were statically sized and so didn't require explicit whitelisting
of the appropriate fields in thread_struct.

Testing with usercopy hardening enabled has revealed that this is
not the case for certain ptrace regset manipulation calls on arm64.
This occurs because the sizes of usercopies associated with the
regset API are dynamic by construction, and because arm64 does not
always stage such copies via the stack: indeed the regset API is
designed to avoid the need for that by adding some bounds checking.

This is currently believed to affect only the fpsimd and TLS
registers.

Because the whitelisted fields in thread_struct must be contiguous,
this patch groups them together in a nested struct.  It is also
necessary to be able to determine the location and size of that
struct, so rather than making the struct anonymous (which would
save on edits elsewhere) or adding an anonymous union containing
named and unnamed instances of the same struct (gross), this patch
gives the struct a name and makes the necessary edits to code that
references it (noisy but simple).

Care is needed to ensure that the new struct does not contain
padding (which the usercopy hardening would fail to protect).

For this reason, the presence of tp2_value is made unconditional,
since a padding field would be needed there in any case.  This pads
up to the 16-byte alignment required by struct user_fpsimd_state.

Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 9e8084d3f761 ("arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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When the hardend usercopy support was added for arm64, it was
concluded that all cases of usercopy into and out of thread_struct
were statically sized and so didn't require explicit whitelisting
of the appropriate fields in thread_struct.

Testing with usercopy hardening enabled has revealed that this is
not the case for certain ptrace regset manipulation calls on arm64.
This occurs because the sizes of usercopies associated with the
regset API are dynamic by construction, and because arm64 does not
always stage such copies via the stack: indeed the regset API is
designed to avoid the need for that by adding some bounds checking.

This is currently believed to affect only the fpsimd and TLS
registers.

Because the whitelisted fields in thread_struct must be contiguous,
this patch groups them together in a nested struct.  It is also
necessary to be able to determine the location and size of that
struct, so rather than making the struct anonymous (which would
save on edits elsewhere) or adding an anonymous union containing
named and unnamed instances of the same struct (gross), this patch
gives the struct a name and makes the necessary edits to code that
references it (noisy but simple).

Care is needed to ensure that the new struct does not contain
padding (which the usercopy hardening would fail to protect).

For this reason, the presence of tp2_value is made unconditional,
since a padding field would be needed there in any case.  This pads
up to the 16-byte alignment required by struct user_fpsimd_state.

Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 9e8084d3f761 ("arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: __show_regs: Only resolve kernel symbols when running at EL1</title>
<updated>2018-02-19T17:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-19T16:46:57+00:00</published>
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__show_regs pretty prints PC and LR by attempting to map them to kernel
function names to improve the utility of crash reports. Unfortunately,
this mapping is applied even when the pt_regs corresponds to user mode,
resulting in a KASLR oracle.

Avoid this issue by only looking up the function symbols when the register
state indicates that we're actually running at EL1.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: NCSC Security &lt;security@ncsc.gov.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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__show_regs pretty prints PC and LR by attempting to map them to kernel
function names to improve the utility of crash reports. Unfortunately,
this mapping is applied even when the pt_regs corresponds to user mode,
resulting in a KASLR oracle.

Avoid this issue by only looking up the function symbols when the register
state indicates that we're actually running at EL1.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: NCSC Security &lt;security@ncsc.gov.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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