[Precise][CVE-2014-9090] x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Dec 5 13:51:47 UTC 2014


From: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>

On a 32-bit kernel, this has no effect, since there are no IST stacks.

On a 64-bit kernel, #SS can only happen in user code, on a failed iret
to user space, a canonical violation on access via RSP or RBP, or a
genuine stack segment violation in 32-bit kernel code.  The first two
cases don't need IST, and the latter two cases are unlikely fatal bugs,
and promoting them to double faults would be fine.

This fixes a bug in which the espfix64 code mishandles a stack segment
violation.

This saves 4k of memory per CPU and a tiny bit of code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
(backported from commit 6f442be2fb22be02cafa606f1769fa1e6f894441)
CVE-2014-9090
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1398795
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h |  1 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h | 11 +++++------
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c       |  1 -
 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S           |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c              | 13 +------------
 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h
index ade619ff9e2a..88dae6b3d7d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 #define THREAD_ORDER	1
 #define THREAD_SIZE 	(PAGE_SIZE << THREAD_ORDER)
 
-#define STACKFAULT_STACK 0
 #define DOUBLEFAULT_STACK 1
 #define NMI_STACK 0
 #define DEBUG_STACK 0
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
index 7639dbf5d223..a9e9937b9a62 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h
@@ -14,12 +14,11 @@
 #define IRQ_STACK_ORDER 2
 #define IRQ_STACK_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE << IRQ_STACK_ORDER)
 
-#define STACKFAULT_STACK 1
-#define DOUBLEFAULT_STACK 2
-#define NMI_STACK 3
-#define DEBUG_STACK 4
-#define MCE_STACK 5
-#define N_EXCEPTION_STACKS 5  /* hw limit: 7 */
+#define DOUBLEFAULT_STACK 1
+#define NMI_STACK 2
+#define DEBUG_STACK 3
+#define MCE_STACK 4
+#define N_EXCEPTION_STACKS 4  /* hw limit: 7 */
 
 #define PUD_PAGE_SIZE		(_AC(1, UL) << PUD_SHIFT)
 #define PUD_PAGE_MASK		(~(PUD_PAGE_SIZE-1))
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
index 6d728d9284bd..5e890ccd5429 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ static char x86_stack_ids[][8] = {
 		[ DEBUG_STACK-1			]	= "#DB",
 		[ NMI_STACK-1			]	= "NMI",
 		[ DOUBLEFAULT_STACK-1		]	= "#DF",
-		[ STACKFAULT_STACK-1		]	= "#SS",
 		[ MCE_STACK-1			]	= "#MC",
 #if DEBUG_STKSZ > EXCEPTION_STKSZ
 		[ N_EXCEPTION_STACKS ...
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index 4b511efc2a50..50650dc2f82e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ apicinterrupt XEN_HVM_EVTCHN_CALLBACK \
 
 paranoidzeroentry_ist debug do_debug DEBUG_STACK
 paranoidzeroentry_ist int3 do_int3 DEBUG_STACK
-paranoiderrorentry stack_segment do_stack_segment
+errorentry stack_segment do_stack_segment
 #ifdef CONFIG_XEN
 zeroentry xen_debug do_debug
 zeroentry xen_int3 do_int3
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index 496154013ce8..8171fe7422f4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -285,23 +285,12 @@ DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_OLD_MF, SIGFPE, "coprocessor segment overrun",
 		coprocessor_segment_overrun)
 DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_TS, SIGSEGV, "invalid TSS", invalid_TSS)
 DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_NP, SIGBUS, "segment not present", segment_not_present)
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 DO_ERROR(X86_TRAP_SS, SIGBUS, "stack segment", stack_segment)
-#endif
 DO_ERROR_INFO(X86_TRAP_AC, SIGBUS, "alignment check", alignment_check,
 		BUS_ADRALN, 0)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 /* Runs on IST stack */
-dotraplinkage void do_stack_segment(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
-{
-	if (notify_die(DIE_TRAP, "stack segment", regs, error_code,
-			X86_TRAP_SS, SIGBUS) == NOTIFY_STOP)
-		return;
-	preempt_conditional_sti(regs);
-	do_trap(X86_TRAP_SS, SIGBUS, "stack segment", regs, error_code, NULL);
-	preempt_conditional_cli(regs);
-}
 
 dotraplinkage void do_double_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
 {
@@ -824,7 +813,7 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
 	set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_OLD_MF, &coprocessor_segment_overrun);
 	set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_TS, &invalid_TSS);
 	set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_NP, &segment_not_present);
-	set_intr_gate_ist(X86_TRAP_SS, &stack_segment, STACKFAULT_STACK);
+	set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_SS, &stack_segment);
 	set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_GP, &general_protection);
 	set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_SPURIOUS, &spurious_interrupt_bug);
 	set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_MF, &coprocessor_error);




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