[PATCH 3.2 086/104] x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation

[Ben Hutchings]

3.2.101-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

commit c7f631cb07e7da06ac1d231ca178452339e32a94 upstream.

Quoting Linus:

    I do think that it would be a good idea to very expressly document
    the fact that it's not that the user access itself is unsafe. I do
    agree that things like "get_user()" want to be protected, but not
    because of any direct bugs or problems with get_user() and friends,
    but simply because get_user() is an excellent source of a pointer
    that is obviously controlled from a potentially attacking user
    space. So it's a prime candidate for then finding _subsequent_
    accesses that can then be used to perturb the cache.

Unlike the __get_user() case get_user() includes the address limit check
near the pointer de-reference. With that locality the speculation can be
mitigated with pointer narrowing rather than a barrier, i.e.
array_index_nospec(). Where the narrowing is performed by:

	cmp %limit, %ptr
	sbb %mask, %mask
	and %mask, %ptr

With respect to speculation the value of %ptr is either less than %limit
or NULL.

Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727417469.33451.11804043010080838495.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Drop changes to 32-bit implementation of __get_user_8
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/lib/getuser.S | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/lib/getuser.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/getuser.S
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_1)
 	GET_THREAD_INFO(%_ASM_DX)
 	cmp TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX
 	jae bad_get_user
+	sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX		/* array_index_mask_nospec() */
+	and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX
 1:	movzb (%_ASM_AX),%edx
 	xor %eax,%eax
 	ret
@@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_2)
 	GET_THREAD_INFO(%_ASM_DX)
 	cmp TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX
 	jae bad_get_user
+	sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX		/* array_index_mask_nospec() */
+	and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX
 2:	movzwl -1(%_ASM_AX),%edx
 	xor %eax,%eax
 	ret
@@ -66,6 +70,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_4)
 	GET_THREAD_INFO(%_ASM_DX)
 	cmp TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX
 	jae bad_get_user
+	sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX		/* array_index_mask_nospec() */
+	and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX
 3:	mov -3(%_ASM_AX),%edx
 	xor %eax,%eax
 	ret
@@ -80,6 +86,8 @@ ENTRY(__get_user_8)
 	GET_THREAD_INFO(%_ASM_DX)
 	cmp TI_addr_limit(%_ASM_DX),%_ASM_AX
 	jae	bad_get_user
+	sbb %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_DX		/* array_index_mask_nospec() */
+	and %_ASM_DX, %_ASM_AX
 4:	movq -7(%_ASM_AX),%_ASM_DX
 	xor %eax,%eax
 	ret