linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 046/100] powerpc/mm/radix: Make Radix require HUGETLB

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Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:38:15 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 046/100] powerpc/mm/radix: Make Radix require HUGETLB_PAGE

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>

commit 8adddf349fda0d3de2f6bb41ddf838cbf36a8ad2 upstream.

Joel reported weird crashes using skiroot_defconfig, in his case we
jumped into an NX page:

  kernel tried to execute exec-protected page (c000000002bff4f0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
  BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000002bff4f0

Looking at the disassembly, we had simply branched to that address:

  c000000000c001bc  49fff335    bl     c000000002bff4f0

But that didn't match the original kernel image:

  c000000000c001bc  4bfff335    bl     c000000000bff4f0 <kobject_get+0x8>

When STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is enabled, and we're using the radix MMU, we
call radix__change_memory_range() late in boot to change page
protections. We do that both to mark rodata read only and also to mark
init text no-execute. That involves walking the kernel page tables,
and clearing _PAGE_WRITE or _PAGE_EXEC respectively.

With radix we may use hugepages for the linear mapping, so the code in
radix__change_memory_range() uses eg. pmd_huge() to test if it has
found a huge mapping, and if so it stops the page table walk and
changes the PMD permissions.

However if the kernel is built without HUGETLBFS support, pmd_huge()
is just a #define that always returns 0. That causes the code in
radix__change_memory_range() to incorrectly interpret the PMD value as
a pointer to a PTE page rather than as a PTE at the PMD level.

We can see this using `dv` in xmon which also uses pmd_huge():

  0:mon> dv c000000000000000
  pgd  @ 0xc000000001740000
  pgdp @ 0xc000000001740000 = 0x80000000ffffb009
  pudp @ 0xc0000000ffffb000 = 0x80000000ffffa009
  pmdp @ 0xc0000000ffffa000 = 0xc00000000000018f   <- this is a PTE
  ptep @ 0xc000000000000100 = 0xa64bb17da64ab07d   <- kernel text

The end result is we treat the value at 0xc000000000000100 as a PTE
and clear _PAGE_WRITE or _PAGE_EXEC, potentially corrupting the code
at that address.

In Joel's specific case we cleared the sign bit in the offset of the
branch, causing a backward branch to turn into a forward branch which
caused us to branch into a non-executable page. However the exact
nature of the crash depends on kernel version, compiler version, and
other factors.

We need to fix radix__change_memory_range() to not use accessors that
depend on HUGETLBFS, but we also have radix memory hotplug code that
uses pmd_huge() etc that will also need fixing. So for now just
disallow the broken combination of Radix with HUGETLBFS disabled.

The only defconfig we have that is affected is skiroot_defconfig, so
turn on HUGETLBFS there so that it still gets Radix.

Fixes: 566ca99af026 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Add dummy radix_enabled()")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.7+
Reported-by: Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig |    1 +
 arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
 CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
 CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
 CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
+CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y
 CONFIG_TMPFS=y
 CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
 # CONFIG_MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not set
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK

 config PPC_RADIX_MMU
 	bool "Radix MMU Support"
-	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
+	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE
 	select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE if (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA
 	default y
 	help