linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 3/5] powerpc/fault: Avoid heavy search_exception

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Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:53:15 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] powerpc/fault: Avoid heavy search_exception_tables()
 verification

search_exception_tables() is an heavy operation, we have to avoid it.
When KUAP is selected, we'll know the fault has been blocked by KUAP.
Otherwise, it behaves just as if the address was already in the TLBs
and no fault was generated.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
---
v2: Squashed with the preceeding patch which was re-ordering tests that get removed in this patch.
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 23 +++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index 17665ff97469..1770b41e4730 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -210,28 +210,19 @@ static bool bad_kernel_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 		return true;
 	}
 
-	if (!is_exec && address < TASK_SIZE && (error_code & DSISR_PROTFAULT) &&
-	    !search_exception_tables(regs->nip)) {
-		pr_crit_ratelimited("Kernel attempted to access user page (%lx) - exploit attempt? (uid: %d)\n",
-				    address,
-				    from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
-	}
-
 	// Kernel fault on kernel address is bad
 	if (address >= TASK_SIZE)
 		return true;
 
-	// Fault on user outside of certain regions (eg. copy_tofrom_user()) is bad
-	if (!search_exception_tables(regs->nip))
-		return true;
-
-	// Read/write fault in a valid region (the exception table search passed
-	// above), but blocked by KUAP is bad, it can never succeed.
-	if (bad_kuap_fault(regs, address, is_write))
+	// Read/write fault blocked by KUAP is bad, it can never succeed.
+	if (bad_kuap_fault(regs, address, is_write)) {
+		pr_crit_ratelimited("Kernel attempted to %s user page (%lx) - exploit attempt? (uid: %d)\n",
+				    is_write ? "write" : "read", address,
+				    from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
 		return true;
+	}
 
-	// What's left? Kernel fault on user in well defined regions (extable
-	// matched), and allowed by KUAP in the faulting context.
+	// What's left? Kernel fault on user and allowed by KUAP in the faulting context.
 	return false;
 }
 
-- 
2.25.0