linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 1/2] Add UFFD_USER_MODE

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Message-Id: <20201011062456.4065576-2-lokeshgidra@google.com>
Date:   Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:24:55 -0700
From:   Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@...gle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
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        Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH v5 1/2] Add UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY

userfaultfd handles page faults from both user and kernel code.
Add a new UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY flag for userfaultfd(2) that makes
the resulting userfaultfd object refuse to handle faults from kernel
mode, treating these faults as if SIGBUS were always raised, causing
the kernel code to fail with EFAULT.

A future patch adds a knob allowing administrators to give some
processes the ability to create userfaultfd file objects only if they
pass UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY, reducing the likelihood that these processes
will exploit userfaultfd's ability to delay kernel page faults to open
timing windows for future exploits.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@...gle.com>
---
 fs/userfaultfd.c                 | 10 +++++++++-
 include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index 0e4a3837da52..bd229f06d4e9 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -405,6 +405,13 @@ vm_fault_t handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned long reason)
 
 	if (ctx->features & UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS)
 		goto out;
+	if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_USER) == 0 &&
+	    ctx->flags & UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY) {
+		printk_once(KERN_WARNING "uffd: Set unprivileged_userfaultfd "
+			"sysctl knob to 1 if kernel faults must be handled "
+			"without obtaining CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability\n");
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's already released don't get it. This avoids to loop
@@ -1975,10 +1982,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(userfaultfd, int, flags)
 	BUG_ON(!current->mm);
 
 	/* Check the UFFD_* constants for consistency.  */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY & UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(UFFD_CLOEXEC != O_CLOEXEC);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(UFFD_NONBLOCK != O_NONBLOCK);
 
-	if (flags & ~UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS)
+	if (flags & ~(UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS | UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ctx = kmem_cache_alloc(userfaultfd_ctx_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h
index e7e98bde221f..5f2d88212f7c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h
@@ -257,4 +257,13 @@ struct uffdio_writeprotect {
 	__u64 mode;
 };
 
+/*
+ * Flags for the userfaultfd(2) system call itself.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Create a userfaultfd that can handle page faults only in user mode.
+ */
+#define UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY 1
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_USERFAULTFD_H */
-- 
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