[SRU Xenial 1/2] powerpc/rtas: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
cascardo at canonical.com
Tue Dec 1 20:50:48 UTC 2020
From: Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com>
A number of userspace utilities depend on making calls to RTAS to retrieve
information and update various things.
The existing API through which we expose RTAS to userspace exposes more
RTAS functionality than we actually need, through the sys_rtas syscall,
which allows root (or anyone with CAP_SYS_ADMIN) to make any RTAS call they
want with arbitrary arguments.
Many RTAS calls take the address of a buffer as an argument, and it's up to
the caller to specify the physical address of the buffer as an argument. We
allocate a buffer (the "RMO buffer") in the Real Memory Area that RTAS can
access, and then expose the physical address and size of this buffer in
/proc/powerpc/rtas/rmo_buffer. Userspace is expected to read this address,
poke at the buffer using /dev/mem, and pass an address in the RMO buffer to
the RTAS call.
However, there's nothing stopping the caller from specifying whatever
address they want in the RTAS call, and it's easy to construct a series of
RTAS calls that can overwrite arbitrary bytes (even without /dev/mem
access).
Additionally, there are some RTAS calls that do potentially dangerous
things and for which there are no legitimate userspace use cases.
In the past, this would not have been a particularly big deal as it was
assumed that root could modify all system state freely, but with Secure
Boot and lockdown we need to care about this.
We can't fundamentally change the ABI at this point, however we can address
this by implementing a filter that checks RTAS calls against a list
of permitted calls and forces the caller to use addresses within the RMO
buffer.
The list is based off the list of calls that are used by the librtas
userspace library, and has been tested with a number of existing userspace
RTAS utilities. For compatibility with any applications we are not aware of
that require other calls, the filter can be turned off at build time.
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200820044512.7543-1-ajd@linux.ibm.com
(backported from commit bd59380c5ba4147dcbaad3e582b55ccfd120b764)
CVE-2020-27777
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 13 ++++
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 153 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 166 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 8e974bb2a154..d5022063f5c0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -706,6 +706,19 @@ config SECCOMP
If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
+config PPC_RTAS_FILTER
+ bool "Enable filtering of RTAS syscalls"
+ default y
+ depends on PPC_RTAS
+ help
+ The RTAS syscall API has security issues that could be used to
+ compromise system integrity. This option enforces restrictions on the
+ RTAS calls and arguments passed by userspace programs to mitigate
+ these issues.
+
+ Say Y unless you know what you are doing and the filter is causing
+ problems for you.
+
endmenu
config ISA_DMA_API
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index 4fcaa7d3d544..a6f9ec96a736 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -1039,6 +1039,147 @@ struct pseries_errorlog *get_pseries_errorlog(struct rtas_error_log *log,
return NULL;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_FILTER
+
+/*
+ * The sys_rtas syscall, as originally designed, allows root to pass
+ * arbitrary physical addresses to RTAS calls. A number of RTAS calls
+ * can be abused to write to arbitrary memory and do other things that
+ * are potentially harmful to system integrity, and thus should only
+ * be used inside the kernel and not exposed to userspace.
+ *
+ * All known legitimate users of the sys_rtas syscall will only ever
+ * pass addresses that fall within the RMO buffer, and use a known
+ * subset of RTAS calls.
+ *
+ * Accordingly, we filter RTAS requests to check that the call is
+ * permitted, and that provided pointers fall within the RMO buffer.
+ * The rtas_filters list contains an entry for each permitted call,
+ * with the indexes of the parameters which are expected to contain
+ * addresses and sizes of buffers allocated inside the RMO buffer.
+ */
+struct rtas_filter {
+ const char *name;
+ int token;
+ /* Indexes into the args buffer, -1 if not used */
+ int buf_idx1;
+ int size_idx1;
+ int buf_idx2;
+ int size_idx2;
+
+ int fixed_size;
+};
+
+static struct rtas_filter rtas_filters[] __ro_after_init = {
+ { "ibm,activate-firmware", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,configure-connector", -1, 0, -1, 1, -1, 4096 }, /* Special cased */
+ { "display-character", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,display-message", -1, 0, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,errinjct", -1, 2, -1, -1, -1, 1024 },
+ { "ibm,close-errinjct", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,open-errinct", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,get-config-addr-info2", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,get-dynamic-sensor-state", -1, 1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,get-indices", -1, 2, 3, -1, -1 },
+ { "get-power-level", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "get-sensor-state", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,get-system-parameter", -1, 1, 2, -1, -1 },
+ { "get-time-of-day", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,get-vpd", -1, 0, -1, 1, 2 },
+ { "ibm,lpar-perftools", -1, 2, 3, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,platform-dump", -1, 4, 5, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,read-slot-reset-state", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,scan-log-dump", -1, 0, 1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,set-dynamic-indicator", -1, 2, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,set-eeh-option", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "set-indicator", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "set-power-level", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "set-time-for-power-on", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,set-system-parameter", -1, 1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "set-time-of-day", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,suspend-me", -1, -1, -1, -1, -1 },
+ { "ibm,update-nodes", -1, 0, -1, -1, -1, 4096 },
+ { "ibm,update-properties", -1, 0, -1, -1, -1, 4096 },
+ { "ibm,physical-attestation", -1, 0, 1, -1, -1 },
+};
+
+static bool in_rmo_buf(u32 base, u32 end)
+{
+ return base >= rtas_rmo_buf &&
+ base < (rtas_rmo_buf + RTAS_RMOBUF_MAX) &&
+ base <= end &&
+ end >= rtas_rmo_buf &&
+ end < (rtas_rmo_buf + RTAS_RMOBUF_MAX);
+}
+
+static bool block_rtas_call(int token, int nargs,
+ struct rtas_args *args)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(rtas_filters); i++) {
+ struct rtas_filter *f = &rtas_filters[i];
+ u32 base, size, end;
+
+ if (token != f->token)
+ continue;
+
+ if (f->buf_idx1 != -1) {
+ base = be32_to_cpu(args->args[f->buf_idx1]);
+ if (f->size_idx1 != -1)
+ size = be32_to_cpu(args->args[f->size_idx1]);
+ else if (f->fixed_size)
+ size = f->fixed_size;
+ else
+ size = 1;
+
+ end = base + size - 1;
+ if (!in_rmo_buf(base, end))
+ goto err;
+ }
+
+ if (f->buf_idx2 != -1) {
+ base = be32_to_cpu(args->args[f->buf_idx2]);
+ if (f->size_idx2 != -1)
+ size = be32_to_cpu(args->args[f->size_idx2]);
+ else if (f->fixed_size)
+ size = f->fixed_size;
+ else
+ size = 1;
+ end = base + size - 1;
+
+ /*
+ * Special case for ibm,configure-connector where the
+ * address can be 0
+ */
+ if (!strcmp(f->name, "ibm,configure-connector") &&
+ base == 0)
+ return false;
+
+ if (!in_rmo_buf(base, end))
+ goto err;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+ }
+
+err:
+ pr_err_ratelimited("sys_rtas: RTAS call blocked - exploit attempt?\n");
+ pr_err_ratelimited("sys_rtas: token=0x%x, nargs=%d (called by %s)\n",
+ token, nargs, current->comm);
+ return true;
+}
+
+#else
+
+static bool block_rtas_call(int token, int nargs,
+ struct rtas_args *args)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_FILTER */
+
/* We assume to be passed big endian arguments */
asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args __user *uargs)
{
@@ -1076,6 +1217,9 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args __user *uargs)
args.rets = &args.args[nargs];
memset(args.rets, 0, nret * sizeof(rtas_arg_t));
+ if (block_rtas_call(token, nargs, &args))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/* Need to handle ibm,suspend_me call specially */
if (token == ibm_suspend_me_token) {
@@ -1135,6 +1279,9 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args __user *uargs)
void __init rtas_initialize(void)
{
unsigned long rtas_region = RTAS_INSTANTIATE_MAX;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_FILTER
+ int i;
+#endif
/* Get RTAS dev node and fill up our "rtas" structure with infos
* about it.
@@ -1174,6 +1321,12 @@ void __init rtas_initialize(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_RTAS_ERROR_LOGGING
rtas_last_error_token = rtas_token("rtas-last-error");
#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_FILTER
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(rtas_filters); i++) {
+ rtas_filters[i].token = rtas_token(rtas_filters[i].name);
+ }
+#endif
}
int __init early_init_dt_scan_rtas(unsigned long node,
--
2.27.0
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