linux-kernel - [patch 02/10] x86/mce: Disable tracing and kprobes on do_machine

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:36:38 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [patch 02/10] x86/mce: Disable tracing and kprobes on do_machine_check()

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>

do_machine_check() can be raised in almost any context including the most
fragile ones. Prevent kprobes and tracing.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h   |    3 ---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h
@@ -88,9 +88,6 @@ dotraplinkage void do_page_fault(struct
 dotraplinkage void do_spurious_interrupt_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code);
 dotraplinkage void do_coprocessor_error(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code);
 dotraplinkage void do_alignment_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code);
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE
-dotraplinkage void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code);
-#endif
 dotraplinkage void do_simd_coprocessor_error(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code);
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 dotraplinkage void do_iret_error(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
@@ -1213,8 +1213,14 @@ static void __mc_scan_banks(struct mce *
  * On Intel systems this is entered on all CPUs in parallel through
  * MCE broadcast. However some CPUs might be broken beyond repair,
  * so be always careful when synchronizing with others.
+ *
+ * Tracing and kprobes are disabled: if we interrupted a kernel context
+ * with IF=1, we need to minimize stack usage.  There are also recursion
+ * issues: if the machine check was due to a failure of the memory
+ * backing the user stack, tracing that reads the user stack will cause
+ * potentially infinite recursion.
  */
-void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
+void notrace do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
 {
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(valid_banks, MAX_NR_BANKS);
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(toclear, MAX_NR_BANKS);
@@ -1360,6 +1366,7 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *re
 	ist_exit(regs);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_machine_check);
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_machine_check);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
 int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
@@ -1892,10 +1899,11 @@ static void unexpected_machine_check(str
 void (*machine_check_vector)(struct pt_regs *, long error_code) =
 						unexpected_machine_check;
 
-dotraplinkage void do_mce(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
+dotraplinkage notrace void do_mce(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
 {
 	machine_check_vector(regs, error_code);
 }
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_mce);
 
 /*
  * Called for each booted CPU to set up machine checks.