[06/17] x86/alternative: use temporary mm for text poking

Commit Message

Rick Edgecombe Jan. 17, 2019, 12:32 a.m. UTC

From: Nadav Amit <[e-mail]>

text_poke() can potentially compromise the security as it sets temporary
PTEs in the fixmap. These PTEs might be used to rewrite the kernel code
from other cores accidentally or maliciously, if an attacker gains the
ability to write onto kernel memory.

Moreover, since remote TLBs are not flushed after the temporary PTEs are
removed, the time-window in which the code is writable is not limited if
the fixmap PTEs - maliciously or accidentally - are cached in the TLB.
To address these potential security hazards, we use a temporary mm for
patching the code.

Finally, text_poke() is also not conservative enough when mapping pages,
as it always tries to map 2 pages, even when a single one is sufficient.
So try to be more conservative, and do not map more than needed.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[e-mail]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[e-mail]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[e-mail]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <[e-mail]>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h |   2 -
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c         |   2 -
 3 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

Comments

Andy Lutomirski Jan. 17, 2019, 8:27 p.m. UTC | #1

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 4:33 PM Rick Edgecombe
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> From: Nadav Amit <[e-mail]>
>
> text_poke() can potentially compromise the security as it sets temporary
> PTEs in the fixmap. These PTEs might be used to rewrite the kernel code
> from other cores accidentally or maliciously, if an attacker gains the
> ability to write onto kernel memory.

i think this may be sufficient, but barely.

> +       pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr, ptep);
> +
> +       /*
> +        * __flush_tlb_one_user() performs a redundant TLB flush when PTI is on,
> +        * as it also flushes the corresponding "user" address spaces, which
> +        * does not exist.
> +        *
> +        * Poking, however, is already very inefficient since it does not try to
> +        * batch updates, so we ignore this problem for the time being.
> +        *
> +        * Since the PTEs do not exist in other kernel address-spaces, we do
> +        * not use __flush_tlb_one_kernel(), which when PTI is on would cause
> +        * more unwarranted TLB flushes.
> +        *
> +        * There is a slight anomaly here: the PTE is a supervisor-only and
> +        * (potentially) global and we use __flush_tlb_one_user() but this
> +        * should be fine.
> +        */
> +       __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr);
> +       if (cross_page_boundary) {
> +               pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE, ptep + 1);
> +               __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE);
> +       }

In principle, another CPU could still have the old translation.  Your
mutex probably makes this impossible, but it makes me nervous.
Ideally you'd use flush_tlb_mm_range(), but I guess you can't do that
with IRQs off.  Hmm.  I think you should add an inc_mm_tlb_gen() here.
Arguably, if you did that, you could omit the flushes, but maybe
that's silly.

If we start getting new users of use_temporary_mm(), we should give
some serious thought to the SMP semantics.

Also, you're using PAGE_KERNEL.  Please tell me that the global bit
isn't set in there.

--Andy

Andy Lutomirski Jan. 17, 2019, 8:47 p.m. UTC | #2

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 12:27 PM Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 4:33 PM Rick Edgecombe
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Nadav Amit <[e-mail]>
> >
> > text_poke() can potentially compromise the security as it sets temporary
> > PTEs in the fixmap. These PTEs might be used to rewrite the kernel code
> > from other cores accidentally or maliciously, if an attacker gains the
> > ability to write onto kernel memory.
>
> i think this may be sufficient, but barely.
>
> > +       pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr, ptep);
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * __flush_tlb_one_user() performs a redundant TLB flush when PTI is on,
> > +        * as it also flushes the corresponding "user" address spaces, which
> > +        * does not exist.
> > +        *
> > +        * Poking, however, is already very inefficient since it does not try to
> > +        * batch updates, so we ignore this problem for the time being.
> > +        *
> > +        * Since the PTEs do not exist in other kernel address-spaces, we do
> > +        * not use __flush_tlb_one_kernel(), which when PTI is on would cause
> > +        * more unwarranted TLB flushes.
> > +        *
> > +        * There is a slight anomaly here: the PTE is a supervisor-only and
> > +        * (potentially) global and we use __flush_tlb_one_user() but this
> > +        * should be fine.
> > +        */
> > +       __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr);
> > +       if (cross_page_boundary) {
> > +               pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE, ptep + 1);
> > +               __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE);
> > +       }
>
> In principle, another CPU could still have the old translation.  Your
> mutex probably makes this impossible, but it makes me nervous.
> Ideally you'd use flush_tlb_mm_range(), but I guess you can't do that
> with IRQs off.  Hmm.  I think you should add an inc_mm_tlb_gen() here.
> Arguably, if you did that, you could omit the flushes, but maybe
> that's silly.
>
> If we start getting new users of use_temporary_mm(), we should give
> some serious thought to the SMP semantics.
>
> Also, you're using PAGE_KERNEL.  Please tell me that the global bit
> isn't set in there.
>

Much better solution: do unuse_temporary_mm() and *then*
flush_tlb_mm_range().  This is entirely non-sketchy and should be just
about optimal, too.

--Andy

Nadav Amit Jan. 17, 2019, 9:43 p.m. UTC | #3

> On Jan 17, 2019, at 12:47 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 12:27 PM Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 4:33 PM Rick Edgecombe
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> From: Nadav Amit <[e-mail]>
>>> 
>>> text_poke() can potentially compromise the security as it sets temporary
>>> PTEs in the fixmap. These PTEs might be used to rewrite the kernel code
>>> from other cores accidentally or maliciously, if an attacker gains the
>>> ability to write onto kernel memory.
>> 
>> i think this may be sufficient, but barely.
>> 
>>> +       pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr, ptep);
>>> +
>>> +       /*
>>> +        * __flush_tlb_one_user() performs a redundant TLB flush when PTI is on,
>>> +        * as it also flushes the corresponding "user" address spaces, which
>>> +        * does not exist.
>>> +        *
>>> +        * Poking, however, is already very inefficient since it does not try to
>>> +        * batch updates, so we ignore this problem for the time being.
>>> +        *
>>> +        * Since the PTEs do not exist in other kernel address-spaces, we do
>>> +        * not use __flush_tlb_one_kernel(), which when PTI is on would cause
>>> +        * more unwarranted TLB flushes.
>>> +        *
>>> +        * There is a slight anomaly here: the PTE is a supervisor-only and
>>> +        * (potentially) global and we use __flush_tlb_one_user() but this
>>> +        * should be fine.
>>> +        */
>>> +       __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr);
>>> +       if (cross_page_boundary) {
>>> +               pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE, ptep + 1);
>>> +               __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE);
>>> +       }
>> 
>> In principle, another CPU could still have the old translation.  Your
>> mutex probably makes this impossible, but it makes me nervous.
>> Ideally you'd use flush_tlb_mm_range(), but I guess you can't do that
>> with IRQs off.  Hmm.  I think you should add an inc_mm_tlb_gen() here.
>> Arguably, if you did that, you could omit the flushes, but maybe
>> that's silly.
>> 
>> If we start getting new users of use_temporary_mm(), we should give
>> some serious thought to the SMP semantics.
>> 
>> Also, you're using PAGE_KERNEL.  Please tell me that the global bit
>> isn't set in there.
> 
> Much better solution: do unuse_temporary_mm() and *then*
> flush_tlb_mm_range().  This is entirely non-sketchy and should be just
> about optimal, too.

This solution sounds nice and clean. The fact the global-bit was set didn’t
matter before (since __flush_tlb_one_user would get rid of it no matter
what), but would matter now, so I’ll change it too.

Thanks!

Nadav

Nadav Amit Jan. 17, 2019, 10:29 p.m. UTC | #4

> On Jan 17, 2019, at 1:43 PM, Nadav Amit <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 17, 2019, at 12:47 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 12:27 PM Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 4:33 PM Rick Edgecombe
>>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>> From: Nadav Amit <[e-mail]>
>>>> 
>>>> text_poke() can potentially compromise the security as it sets temporary
>>>> PTEs in the fixmap. These PTEs might be used to rewrite the kernel code
>>>> from other cores accidentally or maliciously, if an attacker gains the
>>>> ability to write onto kernel memory.
>>> 
>>> i think this may be sufficient, but barely.
>>> 
>>>> +       pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr, ptep);
>>>> +
>>>> +       /*
>>>> +        * __flush_tlb_one_user() performs a redundant TLB flush when PTI is on,
>>>> +        * as it also flushes the corresponding "user" address spaces, which
>>>> +        * does not exist.
>>>> +        *
>>>> +        * Poking, however, is already very inefficient since it does not try to
>>>> +        * batch updates, so we ignore this problem for the time being.
>>>> +        *
>>>> +        * Since the PTEs do not exist in other kernel address-spaces, we do
>>>> +        * not use __flush_tlb_one_kernel(), which when PTI is on would cause
>>>> +        * more unwarranted TLB flushes.
>>>> +        *
>>>> +        * There is a slight anomaly here: the PTE is a supervisor-only and
>>>> +        * (potentially) global and we use __flush_tlb_one_user() but this
>>>> +        * should be fine.
>>>> +        */
>>>> +       __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr);
>>>> +       if (cross_page_boundary) {
>>>> +               pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE, ptep + 1);
>>>> +               __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE);
>>>> +       }
>>> 
>>> In principle, another CPU could still have the old translation.  Your
>>> mutex probably makes this impossible, but it makes me nervous.
>>> Ideally you'd use flush_tlb_mm_range(), but I guess you can't do that
>>> with IRQs off.  Hmm.  I think you should add an inc_mm_tlb_gen() here.
>>> Arguably, if you did that, you could omit the flushes, but maybe
>>> that's silly.
>>> 
>>> If we start getting new users of use_temporary_mm(), we should give
>>> some serious thought to the SMP semantics.
>>> 
>>> Also, you're using PAGE_KERNEL.  Please tell me that the global bit
>>> isn't set in there.
>> 
>> Much better solution: do unuse_temporary_mm() and *then*
>> flush_tlb_mm_range().  This is entirely non-sketchy and should be just
>> about optimal, too.
> 
> This solution sounds nice and clean. The fact the global-bit was set didn’t
> matter before (since __flush_tlb_one_user would get rid of it no matter
> what), but would matter now, so I’ll change it too.

Err.. so actually text_poke() might be called with disabled IRQs (by kgdb).
flush_tlb_mm_range() should still work fine even with disabled IRQs since no
core would use poking_mm at this point. I can add a comment to
flush_tlb_mm_range(), but all in all it is actually not very pretty.

H. Peter Anvin Jan. 17, 2019, 10:31 p.m. UTC | #5

On January 17, 2019 1:43:54 PM PST, Nadav Amit <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On Jan 17, 2019, at 12:47 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]>
>wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 12:27 PM Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]>
>wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 4:33 PM Rick Edgecombe
>>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>> From: Nadav Amit <[e-mail]>
>>>> 
>>>> text_poke() can potentially compromise the security as it sets
>temporary
>>>> PTEs in the fixmap. These PTEs might be used to rewrite the kernel
>code
>>>> from other cores accidentally or maliciously, if an attacker gains
>the
>>>> ability to write onto kernel memory.
>>> 
>>> i think this may be sufficient, but barely.
>>> 
>>>> +       pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr, ptep);
>>>> +
>>>> +       /*
>>>> +        * __flush_tlb_one_user() performs a redundant TLB flush
>when PTI is on,
>>>> +        * as it also flushes the corresponding "user" address
>spaces, which
>>>> +        * does not exist.
>>>> +        *
>>>> +        * Poking, however, is already very inefficient since it
>does not try to
>>>> +        * batch updates, so we ignore this problem for the time
>being.
>>>> +        *
>>>> +        * Since the PTEs do not exist in other kernel
>address-spaces, we do
>>>> +        * not use __flush_tlb_one_kernel(), which when PTI is on
>would cause
>>>> +        * more unwarranted TLB flushes.
>>>> +        *
>>>> +        * There is a slight anomaly here: the PTE is a
>supervisor-only and
>>>> +        * (potentially) global and we use __flush_tlb_one_user()
>but this
>>>> +        * should be fine.
>>>> +        */
>>>> +       __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr);
>>>> +       if (cross_page_boundary) {
>>>> +               pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE, ptep
>+ 1);
>>>> +               __flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE);
>>>> +       }
>>> 
>>> In principle, another CPU could still have the old translation. 
>Your
>>> mutex probably makes this impossible, but it makes me nervous.
>>> Ideally you'd use flush_tlb_mm_range(), but I guess you can't do
>that
>>> with IRQs off.  Hmm.  I think you should add an inc_mm_tlb_gen()
>here.
>>> Arguably, if you did that, you could omit the flushes, but maybe
>>> that's silly.
>>> 
>>> If we start getting new users of use_temporary_mm(), we should give
>>> some serious thought to the SMP semantics.
>>> 
>>> Also, you're using PAGE_KERNEL.  Please tell me that the global bit
>>> isn't set in there.
>> 
>> Much better solution: do unuse_temporary_mm() and *then*
>> flush_tlb_mm_range().  This is entirely non-sketchy and should be
>just
>> about optimal, too.
>
>This solution sounds nice and clean. The fact the global-bit was set
>didn’t
>matter before (since __flush_tlb_one_user would get rid of it no matter
>what), but would matter now, so I’ll change it too.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Nadav

You can just disable the global bit at the top level, obviously.

This approach also should make it far easier to do batching if desired.

Patch

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
index 50ba74a34a37..9da8cccdf3fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
@@ -103,8 +103,6 @@  enum fixed_addresses {
 #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
 	FIX_PARAVIRT_BOOTMAP,
 #endif
-	FIX_TEXT_POKE1,	/* reserve 2 pages for text_poke() */
-	FIX_TEXT_POKE0, /* first page is last, because allocation is backward */
 #ifdef	CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID
 	FIX_LNW_VRTC,
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 57fdde308bb6..8fc4685f3117 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/stop_machine.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/kdebug.h>
+#include <linux/mmu_context.h>
 #include <asm/text-patching.h>
 #include <asm/alternative.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
@@ -683,41 +684,105 @@  __ro_after_init unsigned long poking_addr;
 
 static void *__text_poke(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len)
 {
+	bool cross_page_boundary = offset_in_page(addr) + len > PAGE_SIZE;
+	temporary_mm_state_t prev;
+	struct page *pages[2] = {NULL};
 	unsigned long flags;
-	char *vaddr;
-	struct page *pages[2];
-	int i;
+	pte_t pte, *ptep;
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
 
 	/*
-	 * While boot memory allocator is runnig we cannot use struct
-	 * pages as they are not yet initialized.
+	 * While boot memory allocator is running we cannot use struct pages as
+	 * they are not yet initialized.
 	 */
 	BUG_ON(!after_bootmem);
 
 	if (!core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr)) {
 		pages[0] = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
-		pages[1] = vmalloc_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+		if (cross_page_boundary)
+			pages[1] = vmalloc_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
 	} else {
 		pages[0] = virt_to_page(addr);
 		WARN_ON(!PageReserved(pages[0]));
-		pages[1] = virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+		if (cross_page_boundary)
+			pages[1] = virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
 	}
-	BUG_ON(!pages[0]);
+	BUG_ON(!pages[0] || (cross_page_boundary && !pages[1]));
+
 	local_irq_save(flags);
-	set_fixmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE0, page_to_phys(pages[0]));
-	if (pages[1])
-		set_fixmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE1, page_to_phys(pages[1]));
-	vaddr = (char *)fix_to_virt(FIX_TEXT_POKE0);
-	memcpy(&vaddr[(unsigned long)addr & ~PAGE_MASK], opcode, len);
-	clear_fixmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE0);
-	if (pages[1])
-		clear_fixmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE1);
-	local_flush_tlb();
-	sync_core();
-	/* Could also do a CLFLUSH here to speed up CPU recovery; but
-	   that causes hangs on some VIA CPUs. */
-	for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
-		BUG_ON(((char *)addr)[i] != ((char *)opcode)[i]);
+
+	/*
+	 * The lock is not really needed, but this allows to avoid open-coding.
+	 */
+	ptep = get_locked_pte(poking_mm, poking_addr, &ptl);
+
+	/*
+	 * This must not fail; preallocated in poking_init().
+	 */
+	VM_BUG_ON(!ptep);
+
+	pte = mk_pte(pages[0], PAGE_KERNEL);
+	set_pte_at(poking_mm, poking_addr, ptep, pte);
+
+	if (cross_page_boundary) {
+		pte = mk_pte(pages[1], PAGE_KERNEL);
+		set_pte_at(poking_mm, poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE, ptep + 1, pte);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Loading the temporary mm behaves as a compiler barrier, which
+	 * guarantees that the PTE will be set at the time memcpy() is done.
+	 */
+	prev = use_temporary_mm(poking_mm);
+
+	kasan_disable_current();
+	memcpy((u8 *)poking_addr + offset_in_page(addr), opcode, len);
+	kasan_enable_current();
+
+	/*
+	 * Ensure that the PTE is only cleared after the instructions of memcpy
+	 * were issued by using a compiler barrier.
+	 */
+	barrier();
+
+	pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr, ptep);
+
+	/*
+	 * __flush_tlb_one_user() performs a redundant TLB flush when PTI is on,
+	 * as it also flushes the corresponding "user" address spaces, which
+	 * does not exist.
+	 *
+	 * Poking, however, is already very inefficient since it does not try to
+	 * batch updates, so we ignore this problem for the time being.
+	 *
+	 * Since the PTEs do not exist in other kernel address-spaces, we do
+	 * not use __flush_tlb_one_kernel(), which when PTI is on would cause
+	 * more unwarranted TLB flushes.
+	 *
+	 * There is a slight anomaly here: the PTE is a supervisor-only and
+	 * (potentially) global and we use __flush_tlb_one_user() but this
+	 * should be fine.
+	 */
+	__flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr);
+	if (cross_page_boundary) {
+		pte_clear(poking_mm, poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE, ptep + 1);
+		__flush_tlb_one_user(poking_addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Loading the previous page-table hierarchy requires a serializing
+	 * instruction that already allows the core to see the updated version.
+	 * Xen-PV is assumed to serialize execution in a similar manner.
+	 */
+	unuse_temporary_mm(prev);
+
+	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
+	/*
+	 * If the text doesn't match what we just wrote; something is
+	 * fundamentally screwy, there's nothing we can really do about that.
+	 */
+	BUG_ON(memcmp(addr, opcode, len));
+
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	return addr;
 }
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
index 0f4fe206dcc2..82b181fcefe5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
@@ -2319,8 +2319,6 @@  static void xen_set_fixmap(unsigned idx, phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t prot)
 #elif defined(CONFIG_X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION)
 	case VSYSCALL_PAGE:
 #endif
-	case FIX_TEXT_POKE0:
-	case FIX_TEXT_POKE1:
 		/* All local page mappings */
 		pte = pfn_pte(phys, prot);
 		break;