kernel/linux.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h, branch v6.19.11

powerpc/security: Add a helper to query stf_barrier type

2021-10-07T08:52:58+00:00

Add a helper to return the stf_barrier type for the current processor. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3bd5d7f96ea1547991ac2ce3137dc2b220bae285.1633464148.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com

powerpc/security: Add a security feature for STF barrier

2021-06-21T11:13:19+00:00

Rather than tying this mitigation to RFI L1D flush requirement, add a new bit for it. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503130243.891868-3-npiggin@gmail.com

powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses

2020-11-19T12:47:18+00:00

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: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry

2020-11-19T12:47:15+00:00

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 on kernel entry. This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/security: Allow for processors that flush the link stack using the special bcctr

2020-07-16T03:12:32+00:00

If both count cache and link stack are to be flushed, and can be flushed with the special bcctr, patch that in directly to the flush/branch nop site. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200609070610.846703-7-npiggin@gmail.com

Merge tag 'powerpc-5.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2019-11-30T22:35:43+00:00

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights: - Infrastructure for secure boot on some bare metal Power9 machines. The firmware support is still in development, so the code here won't actually activate secure boot on any existing systems. - A change to xmon (our crash handler / pseudo-debugger) to restrict it to read-only mode when the kernel is lockdown'ed, otherwise it's trivial to drop into xmon and modify kernel data, such as the lockdown state. - Support for KASLR on 32-bit BookE machines (Freescale / NXP). - Fixes for our flush_icache_range() and __kernel_sync_dicache() (VDSO) to work with memory ranges >4GB. - Some reworks of the pseries CMM (Cooperative Memory Management) driver to make it behave more like other balloon drivers and enable some cleanups of generic mm code. - A series of fixes to our hardware breakpoint support to properly handle unaligned watchpoint addresses. Plus a bunch of other smaller improvements, fixes and cleanups. Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anthony Steinhauser, Cédric Le Goater, Chris Packham, Chris Smart, Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig, Claudio Carvalho, Daniel Axtens, David Hildenbrand, Deb McLemore, Diana Craciun, Eric Richter, Geert Uytterhoeven, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Gustavo L. F. Walbon, Hari Bathini, Harish, Jason Yan, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Leonardo Bras, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues, Michal Suchanek, Mimi Zohar, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nayna Jain, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Rasmus Villemoes, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Thomas Huth, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Valentin Longchamp, YueHaibing" * tag 'powerpc-5.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (144 commits) powerpc/fixmap: fix crash with HIGHMEM x86/efi: remove unused variables powerpc: Define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() for lockdep powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang powerpc: Fix Kconfig indentation powerpc/fixmap: don't clear fixmap area in paging_init() selftests/powerpc: spectre_v2 test must be built 64-bit powerpc/powernv: Disable native PCIe port management powerpc/kexec: Move kexec files into a dedicated subdir. powerpc/32: Split kexec low level code out of misc_32.S powerpc/sysdev: drop simple gpio powerpc/83xx: map IMMR with a BAT. powerpc/32s: automatically allocate BAT in setbat() powerpc/ioremap: warn on early use of ioremap() powerpc: Add support for GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP powerpc/fixmap: Use __fix_to_virt() instead of fix_to_virt() powerpc/8xx: use the fixmapped IMMR in cpm_reset() powerpc/8xx: add __init to cpm1 init functions ...

powerpc/book3s64: Fix link stack flush on context switch

2019-11-14T04:37:52+00:00

In commit ee13cb249fab ("powerpc/64s: Add support for software count cache flush"), I added support for software to flush the count cache (indirect branch cache) on context switch if firmware told us that was the required mitigation for Spectre v2. As part of that code we also added a software flush of the link stack (return address stack), which protects against Spectre-RSB between user processes. That is all correct for CPUs that activate that mitigation, which is currently Power9 Nimbus DD2.3. What I got wrong is that on older CPUs, where firmware has disabled the count cache, we also need to flush the link stack on context switch. To fix it we create a new feature bit which is not set by firmware, which tells us we need to flush the link stack. We set that when firmware tells us that either of the existing Spectre v2 mitigations are enabled. Then we adjust the patching code so that if we see that feature bit we enable the link stack flush. If we're also told to flush the count cache in software then we fall through and do that also. On the older CPUs we don't need to do do the software count cache flush, firmware has disabled it, so in that case we patch in an early return after the link stack flush. The naming of some of the functions is awkward after this patch, because they're called "count cache" but they also do link stack. But we'll fix that up in a later commit to ease backporting. This is the fix for CVE-2019-18660. Reported-by: Anthony Steinhauser Fixes: ee13cb249fab ("powerpc/64s: Add support for software count cache flush") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+ Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/security: Fix debugfs data leak on 32-bit

2019-11-05T11:29:27+00:00

"powerpc_security_features" is "unsigned long", i.e. 32-bit or 64-bit, depending on the platform (PPC_FSL_BOOK3E or PPC_BOOK3S_64). Hence casting its address to "u64 *", and calling debugfs_create_x64() is wrong, and leaks 32-bit of nearby data to userspace on 32-bit platforms. While all currently defined SEC_FTR_* security feature flags fit in 32-bit, they all have "ULL" suffixes to make them 64-bit constants. Hence fix the leak by changing the type of "powerpc_security_features" (and the parameter types of its accessors) to "u64". This also allows to drop the cast. Fixes: 398af571128fe75f ("powerpc/security: Show powerpc_security_features in debugfs") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191021142309.28105-1-geert+renesas@glider.be

powerpc/64s: Add support for software count cache flush

2018-08-07T14:32:26+00:00

Some CPU revisions support a mode where the count cache needs to be flushed by software on context switch. Additionally some revisions may have a hardware accelerated flush, in which case the software flush sequence can be shortened. If we detect the appropriate flag from firmware we patch a branch into _switch() which takes us to a count cache flush sequence. That sequence in turn may be patched to return early if we detect that the CPU supports accelerating the flush sequence in hardware. Add debugfs support for reporting the state of the flush, as well as runtime disabling it. And modify the spectre_v2 sysfs file to report the state of the software flush. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

powerpc/64s: Add new security feature flags for count cache flush

2018-08-07T14:32:26+00:00

Add security feature flags to indicate the need for software to flush the count cache on context switch, and for the presence of a hardware assisted count cache flush. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman