linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/fpu: reinitialize FPU registers if restoring FPU state fails

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:18:28 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>,
        Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>,
        Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...gle.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/fpu: reinitialize FPU registers if restoring
 FPU state fails

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 05:44:34PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> +/*
> + * We should never get here because the fpregs_state stored in 'struct fpu'
> + * should always be readable and contain a valid FPU state.  However, past bugs
> + * have allowed userspace to set reserved bits in the XSAVE area using
> + * PTRACE_SETREGSET or sys_rt_sigreturn().  These caused XRSTOR to fail when
> + * switching to the task, leaking the FPU registers of the task previously
> + * executing on the CPU.  Mitigate this class of vulnerability by restoring from
> + * the initial state (essentially, zeroing out all the FPU registers) if we
> + * can't restore from the task's FPU state.
> + */
> +void __handle_bad_fpstate(union fpregs_state *fpstate, u64 mask)
> +{
> +	WARN_ONCE(1, "Bad FPU state detected, reinitializing FPU registers");
> +	____copy_kernel_to_fpregs(&init_fpstate, mask);
> +}

Sorry, a small oversight here --- this needs to be exported to modules, since
kvm can be built as a module, and kvm uses __copy_kernel_to_fpregs().

Eric