powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses

2020-11-22T08:56:58+00:00

commit 9a32a7e78bd0cd9a9b6332cbdc345ee5ffd0c5de upstream. IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where protected data could be leaked. However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass "kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself, but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an attack. This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses. This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Add a framework for user access tracking

2020-11-22T08:56:58+00:00

Backported from commit de78a9c42a79 ("powerpc: Add a framework for Kernel Userspace Access Protection"). Here we don't try to add the KUAP framework, we just want the helper functions because we want to put uaccess flush helpers in them. In terms of fixes, we don't need commit 1d8f739b07bd ("powerpc/kuap: Fix set direction in allow/prevent_user_access()") as we don't have real KUAP. Likewise as all our allows are noops and all our prevents are just flushes, we don't need commit 9dc086f1e9ef ("powerpc/futex: Fix incorrect user access blocking") The other 2 fixes we do need. The original description is: This patch implements a framework for Kernel Userspace Access Protection. Then subarches will have the possibility to provide their own implementation by providing setup_kuap() and allow/prevent_user_access(). Some platforms will need to know the area accessed and whether it is accessed from read, write or both. Therefore source, destination and size and handed over to the two functions. mpe: Rename to allow/prevent rather than unlock/lock, and add read/write wrappers. Drop the 32-bit code for now until we have an implementation for it. Add kuap to pt_regs for 64-bit as well as 32-bit. Don't split strings, use pr_crit_ratelimited(). Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Russell Currey Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/linux.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kup.h, branch linux-4.4.y

powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses

powerpc: Add a framework for user access tracking