linux-kernel - [PATCHv5] arm64: Handle el1 synchronous instruction aborts cleanly

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Message-Id: <1470792326-565-1-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue,  9 Aug 2016 18:25:26 -0700
From:	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCHv5] arm64: Handle el1 synchronous instruction aborts cleanly


Executing from a non-executable area gives an ugly message:

lkdtm: Performing direct entry EXEC_RODATA
lkdtm: attempting ok execution at ffff0000084c0e08
lkdtm: attempting bad execution at ffff000008880700
Bad mode in Synchronous Abort handler detected on CPU2, code 0x8400000e -- IABT (current EL)
CPU: 2 PID: 998 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.7.0-rc2+ #13
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
task: ffff800077e35780 ti: ffff800077970000 task.ti: ffff800077970000
PC is at lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing+0x0/0x8
LR is at execute_location+0x74/0x88

The 'IABT (current EL)' indicates the error but it's a bit cryptic
without knowledge of the ARM ARM. There is also no indication of the
specific address which triggered the fault. The increase in kernel
page permissions makes hitting this case more likely as well.
Handling the case in the vectors gives a much more familiar looking
error message:

lkdtm: Performing direct entry EXEC_RODATA
lkdtm: attempting ok execution at ffff0000084c0840
lkdtm: attempting bad execution at ffff000008880680
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff000008880680
pgd = ffff8000089b2000
[ffff000008880680] *pgd=00000000489b4003, *pud=0000000048904003, *pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 8400000e [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 997 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.7.0-rc1+ #24
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
task: ffff800077f9f080 ti: ffff800008a1c000 task.ti: ffff800008a1c000
PC is at lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing+0x0/0x8
LR is at execute_location+0x74/0x88

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
---
v5: Fall through to data abort case since the code is now the same
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S |  7 +++++++
 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c     | 14 ++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 96e4a2b..441420c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ el1_sync:
 	lsr	x24, x1, #ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT	// exception class
 	cmp	x24, #ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_CUR	// data abort in EL1
 	b.eq	el1_da
+	cmp	x24, #ESR_ELx_EC_IABT_CUR	// instruction abort in EL1
+	b.eq	el1_ia
 	cmp	x24, #ESR_ELx_EC_SYS64		// configurable trap
 	b.eq	el1_undef
 	cmp	x24, #ESR_ELx_EC_SP_ALIGN	// stack alignment exception
@@ -364,6 +366,11 @@ el1_sync:
 	cmp	x24, #ESR_ELx_EC_BREAKPT_CUR	// debug exception in EL1
 	b.ge	el1_dbg
 	b	el1_inv
+
+el1_ia:
+	/*
+	 * Fall through to the Data abort case
+	 */
 el1_da:
 	/*
 	 * Data abort handling
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index c8beaa0..05d2bd7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -153,6 +153,11 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 }
 #endif
 
+static bool is_el1_instruction_abort(unsigned int esr)
+{
+	return ESR_ELx_EC(esr) == ESR_ELx_EC_IABT_CUR;
+}
+
 /*
  * The kernel tried to access some page that wasn't present.
  */
@@ -161,8 +166,9 @@ static void __do_kernel_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 {
 	/*
 	 * Are we prepared to handle this kernel fault?
+	 * We are almost certainly not prepared to handle instruction faults.
 	 */
-	if (fixup_exception(regs))
+	if (!is_el1_instruction_abort(esr) && fixup_exception(regs))
 		return;
 
 	/*
@@ -267,7 +273,8 @@ static inline bool is_permission_fault(unsigned int esr)
 	unsigned int ec       = ESR_ELx_EC(esr);
 	unsigned int fsc_type = esr & ESR_ELx_FSC_TYPE;
 
-	return (ec == ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_CUR && fsc_type == ESR_ELx_FSC_PERM);
+	return (ec == ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_CUR && fsc_type == ESR_ELx_FSC_PERM) ||
+	       (ec == ESR_ELx_EC_IABT_CUR && fsc_type == ESR_ELx_FSC_PERM);
 }
 
 static bool is_el0_instruction_abort(unsigned int esr)
@@ -312,6 +319,9 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
 		if (regs->orig_addr_limit == KERNEL_DS)
 			die("Accessing user space memory with fs=KERNEL_DS", regs, esr);
 
+		if (is_el1_instruction_abort(esr))
+			die("Attempting to execute userspace memory", regs, esr);
+
 		if (!search_exception_tables(regs->pc))
 			die("Accessing user space memory outside uaccess.h routines", regs, esr);
 	}
-- 
2.7.4