linux-hardening - [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Whitelist dtl slub object for copying to userspace

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Message-Id: <20240614173844.746818-1-anjalik@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 23:08:44 +0530
From: Anjali K <anjalik@...ux.ibm.com>
To: mpe@...erman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: npiggin@...il.com, naveen@...nel.org, christophe.leroy@...roup.eu,
        kees@...nel.org, gustavoars@...nel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, anjalik@...ux.ibm.com,
        vishalc@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Whitelist dtl slub object for copying to userspace

Reading the dispatch trace log from /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/cpu-*
results in a BUG() when the config CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is enabled as
shown below.

    kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
    Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
    LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
    Modules linked in: xfs libcrc32c dm_service_time sd_mod t10_pi sg ibmvfc
    scsi_transport_fc ibmveth pseries_wdt dm_multipath dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse
    CPU: 27 PID: 1815 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc3 #85
    Hardware name: IBM,9040-MRX POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NM1060_042) hv:phyp pSeries
    NIP:  c0000000005d23d4 LR: c0000000005d23d0 CTR: 00000000006ee6f8
    REGS: c000000120c078c0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.10.0-rc3)
    MSR:  8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 2828220f  XER: 0000000e
    CFAR: c0000000001fdc80 IRQMASK: 0
    [ ... GPRs omitted ... ]
    NIP [c0000000005d23d4] usercopy_abort+0x78/0xb0
    LR [c0000000005d23d0] usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0 (unreliable)
     __check_heap_object+0xf8/0x120
     check_heap_object+0x218/0x240
     __check_object_size+0x84/0x1a4
     dtl_file_read+0x17c/0x2c4
     full_proxy_read+0x8c/0x110
     vfs_read+0xdc/0x3a0
     ksys_read+0x84/0x144
     system_call_exception+0x124/0x330
     system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
    --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fff81f3ab34

Commit 6d07d1cd300f ("usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0")
requires that only whitelisted areas in slab/slub objects can be copied to
userspace when usercopy hardening is enabled using CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
Dtl contains hypervisor dispatch events which are expected to be read by
privileged users. Hence mark this safe for user access.
Specify useroffset=0 and usersize=DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES to whitelist the
entire object.

Co-developed-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anjali K <anjalik@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
index 284a6fa04b0c..cba40d9d1284 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
@@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ static int alloc_dispatch_log_kmem_cache(void)
 {
 	void (*ctor)(void *) = get_dtl_cache_ctor();
 
-	dtl_cache = kmem_cache_create("dtl", DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES,
-						DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, 0, ctor);
+	dtl_cache = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("dtl", DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES,
+						DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, 0, 0, DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, ctor);
 	if (!dtl_cache) {
 		pr_warn("Failed to create dispatch trace log buffer cache\n");
 		pr_warn("Stolen time statistics will be unreliable\n");

base-commit: 83a7eefedc9b56fe7bfeff13b6c7356688ffa670
-- 
2.39.3