[PATCH v2] x86/uaccess: Avoid check_object_size() in copy_from_user_nmi()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Sep 19 2022 - 16:16:58 EST


The check_object_size() helper under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is
designed to skip any checks where the length is known at compile time as
a reasonable heuristic to avoid "likely known-good" cases. However, it can
only do this when the copy_*_user() helpers are, themselves, inline too.

Using find_vmap_area() requires taking a spinlock. The check_object_size()
helper can call find_vmap_area() when the destination is in vmap memory.
If show_regs() is called in interrupt context, it will attempt a call to
copy_from_user_nmi(), which may call check_object_size() and then
find_vmap_area(). If something in normal context happens to be in the
middle of calling find_vmap_area() (with the spinlock held), the interrupt
handler will hang forever.

The copy_from_user_nmi() call is actually being called with a fixed-size
length, so check_object_size() should never have been called in
the first place. Given the narrow constraints, just replace the
__copy_from_user_inatomic() call with an open-coded version that calls
only into the sanitizers and not check_object_size(), followed by a call
to raw_copy_from_user().

Reported-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOUHufaPshtKrTWOz7T7QFYUNVGFm0JBjvM700Nhf9qEL9b3EQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 0aef499f3172 ("mm/usercopy: Detect vmalloc overruns")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: drop the call explicitly instead of using inline to do it
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220916135953.1320601-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
index ad0139d25401..d2aff9b176cf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
* called from other contexts.
*/
pagefault_disable();
- ret = __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, from, n);
+ instrument_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
+ ret = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
pagefault_enable();

return ret;
--
2.34.1