Commit-ID: 6ea59b074f15e7ef4b042a108950861b383e7b02 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/6ea59b074f15e7ef4b042a108950861b383e7b02 Author: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:45:30 -0800 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:44:29 +0100
x86/fault: Improve the condition for signalling vs OOPSing __bad_area_nosemaphore() currently checks the X86_PF_USER bit in the error code to decide whether to send a signal or to treat the fault as a kernel error. This can cause somewhat erratic behavior. The straightforward cases where the CPL agrees with the hardware USER bit are all correct, but the other cases are confusing. - A user instruction accessing a kernel address with supervisor privilege (e.g. a descriptor table access failed). The USER bit will be clear, and we OOPS. This is correct, because it indicates a kernel bug, not a user error. - A user instruction accessing a user address with supervisor privilege (e.g. a descriptor table was incorrectly pointing at user memory). __bad_area_nosemaphore() will be passed a modified error code with the user bit set, and we will send a signal. Sending the signal will work (because the regs and the entry frame genuinely come from user mode), but we really ought to OOPS, as this event indicates a severe kernel bug. - A kernel instruction with user privilege (i.e. WRUSS). This should OOPS or get fixed up. The current code would instead try send a signal and malfunction. Change the logic: a signal should be sent if the faulting context is user mode *and* the access has user privilege. Otherwise it's either a kernel mode fault or a failed implicit access, either of which should end up in no_context(). Note to -stable maintainers: don't backport this unless you backport CET. The bug it fixes is unobservable in current kernels unless something is extremely wrong. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/10e509c43893170e262e82027ea399130ae81159.1542667307.git.l...@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index 7a69b66cf071..3c9aed03d18e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, struct task_struct *tsk = current; /* User mode accesses just cause a SIGSEGV */ - if (error_code & X86_PF_USER) { + if (user_mode(regs) && (error_code & X86_PF_USER)) { /* * It's possible to have interrupts off here: */
