[PATCH 3.12 078/119] powerpc/mm: Don't alias user region to other regions below PAGE_OFFSET

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Thu Sep 29 2016 - 06:41:21 EST


From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx>

3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit f077aaf0754bcba0fffdbd925bc12f09cd1e38aa upstream.

In commit c60ac5693c47 ("powerpc: Update kernel VSID range", 2013-03-13)
we lost a check on the region number (the top four bits of the effective
address) for addresses below PAGE_OFFSET. That commit replaced a check
that the top 18 bits were all zero with a check that bits 46 - 59 were
zero (performed for all addresses, not just user addresses).

This means that userspace can access an address like 0x1000_0xxx_xxxx_xxxx
and we will insert a valid SLB entry for it. The VSID used will be the
same as if the top 4 bits were 0, but the page size will be some random
value obtained by indexing beyond the end of the mm_ctx_high_slices_psize
array in the paca. If that page size is the same as would be used for
region 0, then userspace just has an alias of the region 0 space. If the
page size is different, then no HPTE will be found for the access, and
the process will get a SIGSEGV (since hash_page_mm() will refuse to create
a HPTE for the bogus address).

The access beyond the end of the mm_ctx_high_slices_psize can be at most
5.5MB past the array, and so will be in RAM somewhere. Since the access
is a load performed in real mode, it won't fault or crash the kernel.
At most this bug could perhaps leak a little bit of information about
blocks of 32 bytes of memory located at offsets of i * 512kB past the
paca->mm_ctx_high_slices_psize array, for 1 <= i <= 11.

Fixes: c60ac5693c47 ("powerpc: Update kernel VSID range")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
index 17aa6dfceb34..e507f5e733f3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
@@ -110,7 +110,12 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
END_MMU_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(MMU_FTR_1T_SEGMENT)
b slb_finish_load_1T

-0:
+0: /*
+ * For userspace addresses, make sure this is region 0.
+ */
+ cmpdi r9, 0
+ bne 8f
+
/* when using slices, we extract the psize off the slice bitmaps
* and then we need to get the sllp encoding off the mmu_psize_defs
* array.
--
2.10.0