Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

Do you think that the appropriate patches could be copied to the
appropriate people please?

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 04:46:24PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> Changes since v1 [1]:
> * fixup the ifence definition to use alternative_2 per recent AMD
>   changes in tip/x86/pti (Tom)
> 
> * drop 'nospec_ptr' (Linus, Mark)
> 
> * rename 'nospec_array_ptr' to 'array_ptr' (Alexei)
> 
> * rename 'nospec_barrier' to 'ifence' (Peter, Ingo)
> 
> * clean up occasions of 'variable assignment in if()' (Sergei, Stephen)
> 
> * make 'array_ptr' use a mask instead of an architectural ifence by
>   default (Linus, Alexei)
> 
> * provide a command line and compile-time opt-in to the ifence
>   mechanism, if an architecture provides 'ifence_array_ptr'.
> 
> * provide an optimized mask generation helper, 'array_ptr_mask', for
>   x86 (Linus)
> 
> * move 'get_user' hardening from '__range_not_ok' to '__uaccess_begin'
>   (Linus)
> 
> * drop "Thermal/int340x: prevent bounds-check..." since userspace does
>   not have arbitrary control over the 'trip' index (Srinivas)
> 
> * update the changelog of "net: mpls: prevent bounds-check..." and keep
>   it in the series to continue the debate about Spectre hygiene patches.
>   (Eric).
> 
> * record a reviewed-by from Laurent on "[media] uvcvideo: prevent
>   bounds-check..."
> 
> * update the cover letter
> 
> [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/743376/
> 
> ---
> 
> Quoting Mark's original RFC:
> 
> "Recently, Google Project Zero discovered several classes of attack
> against speculative execution. One of these, known as variant-1, allows
> explicit bounds checks to be bypassed under speculation, providing an
> arbitrary read gadget. Further details can be found on the GPZ blog [2]
> and the Documentation patch in this series."
> 
> This series incorporates Mark Rutland's latest ARM changes and adds
> the x86 specific implementation of 'ifence_array_ptr'. That ifence
> based approach is provided as an opt-in fallback, but the default
> mitigation, '__array_ptr', uses a 'mask' approach that removes
> conditional branches instructions, and otherwise aims to redirect
> speculation to use a NULL pointer rather than a user controlled value.
> 
> The mask is generated by the following from Alexei, and Linus:
> 
>     mask = ~(long)(_i | (_s - 1 - _i)) >> (BITS_PER_LONG - 1);
> 
> ...and Linus provided an optimized mask generation helper for x86:
> 
>     asm ("cmpq %1,%2; sbbq %0,%0;"
> 		:"=r" (mask)
> 		:"r"(sz),"r" (idx)
> 		:"cc");
> 
> The 'array_ptr' mechanism can be switched between 'mask' and 'ifence'
> via the spectre_v1={mask,ifence} command line option, and the
> compile-time default is set by selecting either CONFIG_SPECTRE1_MASK or
> CONFIG_SPECTRE1_IFENCE.
> 
> The 'array_ptr' infrastructure is the primary focus this patch set. The
> individual patches that perform 'array_ptr' conversions are a point in
> time (i.e. earlier kernel, early analysis tooling, x86 only etc...)
> start at finding some of these gadgets.
> 
> Another consideration for reviewing these patches is the 'hygiene'
> argument. When a patch refers to hygiene it is concerned with stopping
> speculation on an unconstrained or insufficiently constrained pointer
> value under userspace control. That by itself is not sufficient for
> attack (per current understanding) [3], but it is a necessary
> pre-condition.  So 'hygiene' refers to cleaning up those suspect
> pointers regardless of whether they are usable as a gadget.
> 
> These patches are also be available via the 'nospec-v2' git branch
> here:
> 
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/linux nospec-v2
> 
> Note that the BPF fix for Spectre variant1 is merged in the bpf.git
> tree [4], and is not included in this branch.
> 
> [2]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html
> [3]: https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf
> [4]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git/commit/?id=b2157399cc98
> 
> ---
> 
> Dan Williams (16):
>       x86: implement ifence()
>       x86: implement ifence_array_ptr() and array_ptr_mask()
>       asm-generic/barrier: mask speculative execution flows
>       x86: introduce __uaccess_begin_nospec and ASM_IFENCE
>       x86: use __uaccess_begin_nospec and ASM_IFENCE in get_user paths
>       ipv6: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       ipv4: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       vfs, fdtable: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       userns: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       udf: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       [media] uvcvideo: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       carl9170: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       p54: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       qla2xxx: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       cw1200: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
>       net: mpls: prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
> 
> Mark Rutland (3):
>       Documentation: document array_ptr
>       arm64: implement ifence_array_ptr()
>       arm: implement ifence_array_ptr()
> 
>  Documentation/speculation.txt            |  142 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/Kconfig                         |    1 
>  arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h           |   24 +++++
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                       |    1 
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h         |   24 +++++
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                         |    3 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h           |   46 ++++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h               |    3 -
>  arch/x86/include/asm/smap.h              |    4 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h           |   16 +++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h        |    6 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h        |   12 +--
>  arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S              |    3 +
>  arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c               |    8 +-
>  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c         |    9 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c |    7 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/main.c |    9 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/sta.c     |   11 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/wsm.h     |    4 -
>  drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mr.c            |   17 ++--
>  fs/udf/misc.c                            |   40 +++++---
>  include/linux/fdtable.h                  |    7 +
>  include/linux/nospec.h                   |   71 +++++++++++++++
>  kernel/Kconfig.nospec                    |   31 +++++++
>  kernel/Makefile                          |    1 
>  kernel/nospec.c                          |   52 +++++++++++
>  kernel/user_namespace.c                  |   11 +-
>  lib/Kconfig                              |    3 +
>  net/ipv4/raw.c                           |   10 +-
>  net/ipv6/raw.c                           |   10 +-
>  net/mpls/af_mpls.c                       |   12 +--
>  31 files changed, 521 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/speculation.txt
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/nospec.h
>  create mode 100644 kernel/Kconfig.nospec
>  create mode 100644 kernel/nospec.c
> 

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