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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2023-02-21 12:30:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 14:45:22 -0800
commit74e19ef0ff8061ef55957c3abd71614ef0f42f47 (patch)
treee69cca4dc4ecef3e7f24fbae423c3713a222c627 /include
parent1b72607d7321e66829e11148712b3a2ba1dc83e7 (diff)
uaccess: Add speculation barrier to copy_from_user()
The results of "access_ok()" can be mis-speculated. The result is that you can end speculatively: if (access_ok(from, size)) // Right here even for bad from/size combinations. On first glance, it would be ideal to just add a speculation barrier to "access_ok()" so that its results can never be mis-speculated. But there are lots of system calls just doing access_ok() via "copy_to_user()" and friends (example: fstat() and friends). Those are generally not problematic because they do not _consume_ data from userspace other than the pointer. They are also very quick and common system calls that should not be needlessly slowed down. "copy_from_user()" on the other hand uses a user-controller pointer and is frequently followed up with code that might affect caches. Take something like this: if (!copy_from_user(&kernelvar, uptr, size)) do_something_with(kernelvar); If userspace passes in an evil 'uptr' that *actually* points to a kernel addresses, and then do_something_with() has cache (or other) side-effects, it could allow userspace to infer kernel data values. Add a barrier to the common copy_from_user() code to prevent mis-speculated values which happen after the copy. Also add a stub for architectures that do not define barrier_nospec(). This makes the macro usable in generic code. Since the barrier is now usable in generic code, the x86 #ifdef in the BPF code can also go away. Reported-by: Jordy Zomer <jordyzomer@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> # BPF bits Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/nospec.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nospec.h b/include/linux/nospec.h
index c1e79f72cd89..9f0af4f116d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/nospec.h
+++ b/include/linux/nospec.h
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
struct task_struct;
+#ifndef barrier_nospec
+# define barrier_nospec() do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
/**
* array_index_mask_nospec() - generate a ~0 mask when index < size, 0 otherwise
* @index: array element index