The syscall table base is a user controlled function pointer in kernel space. Like, 'get_user, use 'MASK_NOSPEC' to prevent any out of bounds speculation. While retpoline prevents speculating into the user controlled target it does not stop the pointer de-reference, the concern is leaking memory relative to the syscall table base. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 2 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/smap.h | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S index 63f4320602a3..584f6d2236b3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ #include <asm/asm.h> #include <asm/smap.h> #include <asm/pgtable_types.h> +#include <asm/smap.h> #include <asm/export.h> #include <asm/frame.h> #include <asm/nospec-branch.h> @@ -260,6 +261,7 @@ entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath: cmpl $__NR_syscall_max, %eax #endif ja 1f /* return -ENOSYS (already in pt_regs->ax) */ + MASK_NOSPEC %r11 %rax /* sanitize syscall_nr wrt speculation */ movq %r10, %rcx /* diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/smap.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/smap.h index 2b4ad4c6a226..3b5b2cf58dc6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/smap.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/smap.h @@ -35,7 +35,14 @@ * this directs the cpu to speculate with a NULL ptr rather than * something targeting kernel memory. * - * assumes CF is set from a previous 'cmp TASK_addr_limit, %ptr' + * In the syscall entry path it is possible to speculate past the + * validation of the system call number. Use MASK_NOSPEC to sanitize the + * syscall array index to zero (sys_read) rather than an arbitrary + * target. + * + * assumes CF is set from a previous 'cmp' i.e.: + * cmp TASK_addr_limit, %ptr + * cmp __NR_syscall_max, %idx */ .macro MASK_NOSPEC mask val sbb \mask, \mask
