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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2017 01:57:36 -0800
From:   tip-bot for Dave Hansen <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/pkeys: Check against max pkey to avoid
 overflows

Commit-ID:  58ab9a088ddac4efe823471275859d64f735577e
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/58ab9a088ddac4efe823471275859d64f735577e
Author:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:26:03 -0800
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 10:51:50 +0100

x86/pkeys: Check against max pkey to avoid overflows

Kirill reported a warning from UBSAN about undefined behavior when using
protection keys.  He is running on hardware that actually has support for
it, which is not widely available.

The warning triggers because of very large shifts of integers when doing a
pkey_free() of a large, invalid value. This happens because we never check
that the pkey "fits" into the mm_pkey_allocation_map().

I do not believe there is any danger here of anything bad happening
other than some aliasing issues where somebody could do:

	pkey_free(35);

and the kernel would effectively execute:

	pkey_free(8);

While this might be confusing to an app that was doing something stupid, it
has to do something stupid and the effects are limited to the app shooting
itself in the foot.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc: shuah@...nel.org
Cc: kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170223222603.A022ED65@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pkeys.h | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pkeys.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pkeys.h
index 34684ad..b3b09b9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pkeys.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pkeys.h
@@ -46,6 +46,15 @@ extern int __arch_set_user_pkey_access(struct task_struct *tsk, int pkey,
 static inline
 bool mm_pkey_is_allocated(struct mm_struct *mm, int pkey)
 {
+	/*
+	 * "Allocated" pkeys are those that have been returned
+	 * from pkey_alloc().  pkey 0 is special, and never
+	 * returned from pkey_alloc().
+	 */
+	if (pkey <= 0)
+		return false;
+	if (pkey >= arch_max_pkey())
+		return false;
 	return mm_pkey_allocation_map(mm) & (1U << pkey);
 }
 
@@ -82,12 +91,6 @@ int mm_pkey_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
 static inline
 int mm_pkey_free(struct mm_struct *mm, int pkey)
 {
-	/*
-	 * pkey 0 is special, always allocated and can never
-	 * be freed.
-	 */
-	if (!pkey)
-		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!mm_pkey_is_allocated(mm, pkey))
 		return -EINVAL;