From 304ec1b050310548db33063e567123fae8fd0301 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:02:49 -0800 Subject: x86/uaccess: Use __uaccess_begin_nospec() and uaccess_try_nospec Quoting Linus: I do think that it would be a good idea to very expressly document the fact that it's not that the user access itself is unsafe. I do agree that things like "get_user()" want to be protected, but not because of any direct bugs or problems with get_user() and friends, but simply because get_user() is an excellent source of a pointer that is obviously controlled from a potentially attacking user space. So it's a prime candidate for then finding _subsequent_ accesses that can then be used to perturb the cache. __uaccess_begin_nospec() covers __get_user() and copy_from_iter() where the limit check is far away from the user pointer de-reference. In those cases a barrier_nospec() prevents speculation with a potential pointer to privileged memory. uaccess_try_nospec covers get_user_try. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Suggested-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kees Cook Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Al Viro Cc: alan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727416953.33451.10508284228526170604.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com --- arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h index 72950401b223..ba2dc1930630 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h @@ -29,21 +29,21 @@ raw_copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) switch (n) { case 1: ret = 0; - __uaccess_begin(); + __uaccess_begin_nospec(); __get_user_asm_nozero(*(u8 *)to, from, ret, "b", "b", "=q", 1); __uaccess_end(); return ret; case 2: ret = 0; - __uaccess_begin(); + __uaccess_begin_nospec(); __get_user_asm_nozero(*(u16 *)to, from, ret, "w", "w", "=r", 2); __uaccess_end(); return ret; case 4: ret = 0; - __uaccess_begin(); + __uaccess_begin_nospec(); __get_user_asm_nozero(*(u32 *)to, from, ret, "l", "k", "=r", 4); __uaccess_end(); -- cgit v1.2.3