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x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:42:03 +0000 (11:42 +0100)
committerSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Sun, 4 Mar 2018 15:28:33 +0000 (10:28 -0500)
commitede858e6a42be9066d2e73f9be1fc714fda9decc
tree0a003198a76bf004ee18885a25cf11f4d1512ec3
parentb7b25a5b2fce2622882e6ff69cf98709b99ad673
x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation

[ Upstream commit c7f631cb07e7da06ac1d231ca178452339e32a94 ]

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.

Unlike the __get_user() case get_user() includes the address limit check
near the pointer de-reference. With that locality the speculation can be
mitigated with pointer narrowing rather than a barrier, i.e.
array_index_nospec(). Where the narrowing is performed by:

cmp %limit, %ptr
sbb %mask, %mask
and %mask, %ptr

With respect to speculation the value of %ptr is either less than %limit
or NULL.

Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727417469.33451.11804043010080838495.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
arch/x86/lib/getuser.S