linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 010/107] x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection

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Message-Id: <1438811379-384-11-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed,  5 Aug 2015 14:48:02 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 010/107] x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection

3.19.8-ckt5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>

commit 810bc075f78ff2c221536eb3008eac6a492dba2d upstream.

We have a tricky bug in the nested NMI code: if we see RSP pointing
to the NMI stack on NMI entry from kernel mode, we assume that we
are executing a nested NMI.

This isn't quite true.  A malicious userspace program can point RSP
at the NMI stack, issue SYSCALL, and arrange for an NMI to happen
while RSP is still pointing at the NMI stack.

Fix it with a sneaky trick.  Set DF in the region of code that the RSP
check is intended to detect.  IRET will clear DF atomically.

(Note: other than paravirt, there's little need for all this complexity.
 We could check RIP instead of RSP.)

Fixes CVE-2015-3291.

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 4.0: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
CVE-2015-3291
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 5dc89ed..138e7af 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -1628,7 +1628,14 @@ ENTRY(nmi)
 	/*
 	 * Now test if the previous stack was an NMI stack.  This covers
 	 * the case where we interrupt an outer NMI after it clears
-	 * "NMI executing" but before IRET.
+	 * "NMI executing" but before IRET.  We need to be careful, though:
+	 * there is one case in which RSP could point to the NMI stack
+	 * despite there being no NMI active: naughty userspace controls
+	 * RSP at the very beginning of the SYSCALL targets.  We can
+	 * pull a fast one on naughty userspace, though: we program
+	 * SYSCALL to mask DF, so userspace cannot cause DF to be set
+	 * if it controls the kernel's RSP.  We set DF before we clear
+	 * "NMI executing".
 	 */
 	lea	6*8(%rsp), %rdx
 	/* Compare the NMI stack (rdx) with the stack we came from (4*8(%rsp)) */
@@ -1639,10 +1646,16 @@ ENTRY(nmi)
 	cmpq	%rdx, 4*8(%rsp)
 	/* If it is below the NMI stack, it is a normal NMI */
 	jb	first_nmi
-	/* Ah, it is within the NMI stack, treat it as nested */
+
+	/* Ah, it is within the NMI stack. */
+
+	testb	$(X86_EFLAGS_DF >> 8), (3*8 + 1)(%rsp)
+	jz	first_nmi	/* RSP was user controlled. */
 
 	CFI_REMEMBER_STATE
 
+	/* This is a nested NMI. */
+
 nested_nmi:
 	/*
 	 * Modify the "iret" frame to point to repeat_nmi, forcing another
@@ -1754,8 +1767,16 @@ nmi_restore:
 
 	RESTORE_ALL 6*8
 
-	/* Clear "NMI executing". */
-	movq $0, 5*8(%rsp)
+	/*
+	 * Clear "NMI executing".  Set DF first so that we can easily
+	 * distinguish the remaining code between here and IRET from
+	 * the SYSCALL entry and exit paths.  On a native kernel, we
+	 * could just inspect RIP, but, on paravirt kernels,
+	 * INTERRUPT_RETURN can translate into a jump into a
+	 * hypercall page.
+	 */
+	std
+	movq	$0, 5*8(%rsp)		/* clear "NMI executing" */
 
 	/*
 	 * INTERRUPT_RETURN reads the "iret" frame and exits the NMI
-- 
1.9.1

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