linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/kernel/tls.c, branch v5.0

x86/ldt: Make the LDT mapping RO

2017-12-23T20:13:01+00:00

Now that the LDT mapping is in a known area when PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION is
enabled its a primary target for attacks, if a user space interface fails
to validate a write address correctly. That can never happen, right?

The SDM states:

    If the segment descriptors in the GDT or an LDT are placed in ROM, the
    processor can enter an indefinite loop if software or the processor
    attempts to update (write to) the ROM-based segment descriptors. To
    prevent this problem, set the accessed bits for all segment descriptors
    placed in a ROM. Also, remove operating-system or executive code that
    attempts to modify segment descriptors located in ROM.

So its a valid approach to set the ACCESS bit when setting up the LDT entry
and to map the table RO. Fixup the selftest so it can handle that new mode.

Remove the manual ACCESS bit setter in set_tls_desc() as this is now
pointless. Folded the patch from Peter Ziljstra.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/asm: Replace access to desc_struct:a/b fields

2017-08-29T10:07:25+00:00

The union inside of desc_struct which allows access to the raw u32 parts of
the descriptors. This raw access part is about to go away.

Replace the few code parts which access those fields.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170828064958.120214366@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/tls: Forcibly set the accessed bit in TLS segments

2017-03-19T11:14:35+00:00

For mysterious historical reasons, struct user_desc doesn't indicate
whether segments are accessed.  set_thread_area() has always programmed
segments as non-accessed, so the first write will set the accessed bit.
This will fault if the GDT is read-only.

Fix it by making TLS segments start out accessed.

If this ends up breaking something, we could, in principle, leave TLS
segments non-accessed and fix them up when we get the page fault.  I'd be
surprised, though -- AFAIK all the nasty legacy segmented programs (DOSEMU,
Wine, things that run on DOSEMU and Wine, etc.) do their nasty segmented
things using the LDT and not the GDT.  I assume this is mainly because old
OSes (Linux and otherwise) didn't historically provide APIs to do nasty
things in the GDT.

Fixes: 45fc8757d1d2 ("x86: Make the GDT remapping read-only on 64-bit")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Thomas Garnier 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/62b7748542df0164af7e0a5231283b9b13858c45.1489900519.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86/tls: Synchronize segment registers in set_thread_area()

2016-04-29T09:56:42+00:00

The current behavior of set_thread_area() when it modifies a segment that is
currently loaded is a bit confused.

If CS [1] or SS is modified, the change will take effect on return
to userspace because CS and SS are fundamentally always reloaded on
return to userspace.

Similarly, on 32-bit kernels, if DS, ES, FS, or (depending on
configuration) GS refers to a modified segment, the change will take
effect immediately on return to user mode because the entry code
reloads these registers.

If set_thread_area() modifies DS, ES [2], FS, or GS on 64-bit kernels or
GS on 32-bit lazy-GS [3] kernels, however, the segment registers
will be left alone until something (most likely a context switch)
causes them to be reloaded.  This means that behavior visible to
user space is inconsistent.

If set_thread_area() is implicitly called via CLONE_SETTLS, then all
segment registers will be reloaded before the thread starts because
CLONE_SETTLS happens before the initial context switch into the
newly created thread.

Empirically, glibc requires the immediate reload on CLONE_SETTLS --
32-bit glibc on my system does *not* manually reload GS when
creating a new thread.

Before enabling FSGSBASE, we need to figure out what the behavior
will be, as FSGSBASE requires that we reconsider our behavior when,
e.g., GS and GSBASE are out of sync in user mode.  Given that we
must preserve the existing behavior of CLONE_SETTLS, it makes sense
to me that we simply extend similar behavior to all invocations
of set_thread_area().

This patch explicitly updates any segment register referring to a
segment that is targetted by set_thread_area().  If set_thread_area()
deletes the segment, then the segment register will be nulled out.

[1] This can't actually happen since 0e58af4e1d21 ("x86/tls:
    Disallow unusual TLS segments") but, if it did, this is how it
    would behave.

[2] I strongly doubt that any existing non-malicious program loads a
    TLS segment into DS or ES on a 64-bit kernel because the context
    switch code was badly broken until recently, but that's not an
    excuse to leave the current code alone.

[3] One way or another, that config option should to go away.  Yuck!

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/27d119b0d396e9b82009e40dff8333a249038225.1461698311.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86, tls: Interpret an all-zero struct user_desc as "no segment"

2015-01-22T20:45:07+00:00

The Witcher 2 did something like this to allocate a TLS segment index:

        struct user_desc u_info;
        bzero(&u_info, sizeof(u_info));
        u_info.entry_number = (uint32_t)-1;

        syscall(SYS_set_thread_area, &u_info);

Strictly speaking, this code was never correct.  It should have set
read_exec_only and seg_not_present to 1 to indicate that it wanted
to find a free slot without putting anything there, or it should
have put something sensible in the TLS slot if it wanted to allocate
a TLS entry for real.  The actual effect of this code was to
allocate a bogus segment that could be used to exploit espfix.

The set_thread_area hardening patches changed the behavior, causing
set_thread_area to return -EINVAL and crashing the game.

This changes set_thread_area to interpret this as a request to find
a free slot and to leave it empty, which isn't *quite* what the game
expects but should be close enough to keep it working.  In
particular, using the code above to allocate two segments will
allocate the same segment both times.

According to FrostbittenKing on Github, this fixes The Witcher 2.

If this somehow still causes problems, we could instead allocate
a limit==0 32-bit data segment, but that seems rather ugly to me.

Fixes: 41bdc78544b8 x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0cb251abe1ff0958b8e468a9a9a905b80ae3a746.1421954363.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86/tls: Don't validate lm in set_thread_area() after all

2014-12-18T11:12:26+00:00

It turns out that there's a lurking ABI issue.  GCC, when
compiling this in a 32-bit program:

struct user_desc desc = {
	.entry_number    = idx,
	.base_addr       = base,
	.limit           = 0xfffff,
	.seg_32bit       = 1,
	.contents        = 0, /* Data, grow-up */
	.read_exec_only  = 0,
	.limit_in_pages  = 1,
	.seg_not_present = 0,
	.useable         = 0,
};

will leave .lm uninitialized.  This means that anything in the
kernel that reads user_desc.lm for 32-bit tasks is unreliable.

Revert the .lm check in set_thread_area().  The value never did
anything in the first place.

Fixes: 0e58af4e1d21 ("x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Only if 0e58af4e1d21 is backported
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7875b60e28c512f6a6fc0baf5714d58e7eaadbb.1418856405.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments

2014-12-14T07:50:31+00:00

Users have no business installing custom code segments into the
GDT, and segments that are not present but are otherwise valid
are a historical source of interesting attacks.

For completeness, block attempts to set the L bit.  (Prior to
this patch, the L bit would have been silently dropped.)

This is an ABI break.  I've checked glibc, musl, and Wine, and
none of them look like they'll have any trouble.

Note to stable maintainers: this is a hardening patch that fixes
no known bugs.  Given the possibility of ABI issues, this
probably shouldn't be backported quickly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # optional
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: security@kernel.org 
Cc: Willy Tarreau 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix

2014-12-14T07:50:31+00:00

Installing a 16-bit RW data segment into the GDT defeats espfix.
AFAICT this will not affect glibc, Wine, or dosemu at all.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: security@kernel.org 
Cc: Willy Tarreau 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar