linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/mm: Improve stack-overflow #PF handling

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Message-Id: <6d6cf96b3fb9b4c9aa303817e1dc4de0c7c36487.1472603235.git.luto@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:27:57 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Improve stack-overflow #PF handling

If we get a page fault indicating kernel stack overflow, invoke
handle_stack_overflow().  To prevent us from overflowing the stack
again while handling the overflow (because we are likely to have
very little stack space left), call handle_stack_overflow() on the
double-fault stack.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---

I meant for this to be included in the last series -- whoops.

arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h |  6 ++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c      |  6 +++---
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c          | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h
index c3496619740a..01fd0a7f48cd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h
@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ extern void ist_exit(struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern void ist_begin_non_atomic(struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern void ist_end_non_atomic(void);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
+void __noreturn handle_stack_overflow(const char *message,
+				      struct pt_regs *regs,
+				      unsigned long fault_address);
+#endif
+
 /* Interrupts/Exceptions */
 enum {
 	X86_TRAP_DE = 0,	/*  0, Divide-by-zero */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index 907b4e4aeb5e..bd4e3d4d3625 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -293,9 +293,9 @@ DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_SS,     SIGBUS,  "stack segment",		stack_segment)
 DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_AC,     SIGBUS,  "alignment check",		alignment_check)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
-static void __noreturn handle_stack_overflow(const char *message,
-					     struct pt_regs *regs,
-					     unsigned long fault_address)
+__visible void __noreturn handle_stack_overflow(const char *message,
+						struct pt_regs *regs,
+						unsigned long fault_address)
 {
 	printk(KERN_EMERG "BUG: stack guard page was hit at %p (stack is %p..%p)\n",
 		 (void *)fault_address, current->stack,
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index dc8023060456..9ad45714ec4e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -753,6 +753,40 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 		return;
 	}
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
+	/*
+	 * Stack overflow?  During boot, we can fault near the initial
+	 * stack in the direct map, but that's not an overflow -- check
+	 * that we're in vmalloc space to avoid this.
+	 */
+	if (is_vmalloc_addr((void *)address) &&
+	    (((unsigned long)tsk->stack - 1 - address < PAGE_SIZE) ||
+	     address - ((unsigned long)tsk->stack + THREAD_SIZE) < PAGE_SIZE)) {
+		register void *__sp asm("rsp");
+		unsigned long stack =
+			this_cpu_read(orig_ist.ist[DOUBLEFAULT_STACK]) -
+			sizeof(void *);
+		/*
+		 * We're likely to be running with very little stack space
+		 * left.  It's plausible that we'd hit this condition but
+		 * double-fault even before we get this far, in which case
+		 * we're fine: the double-fault handler will deal with it.
+		 *
+		 * We don't want to make it all the way into the oops code
+		 * and then double-fault, though, because we're likely to
+		 * break the console driver and lose most of the stack dump.
+		 */
+		asm volatile ("movq %[stack], %%rsp\n\t"
+			      "call handle_stack_overflow\n\t"
+			      "1: jmp 1b"
+			      : "+r" (__sp)
+			      : "D" ("kernel stack overflow (page fault)"),
+				"S" (regs), "d" (address),
+				[stack] "rm" (stack));
+		unreachable();
+	}
+#endif
+
 	/*
 	 * 32-bit:
 	 *
-- 
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