Re: [PATCH v2 57/63] powerpc/signal32: Use struct_group() to zero spe regs

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Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 05:49:35PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
>> > field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
>> > neighboring fields.
>> >
>> > Add a struct_group() for the spe registers so that memset() can correctly reason
>> > about the size:
>> >
>> >    In function 'fortify_memset_chk',
>> >        inlined from 'restore_user_regs.part.0' at arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c:539:3:
>> >>> include/linux/fortify-string.h:195:4: error: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning]
>> >      195 |    __write_overflow_field();
>> >          |    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >
>> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h | 6 ++++--
>> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c      | 6 +++---
>> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h
>> > index f348e564f7dd..05dc567cb9a8 100644
>> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h
>> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h
>> > @@ -191,8 +191,10 @@ struct thread_struct {
>> >  	int		used_vsr;	/* set if process has used VSX */
>> >  #endif /* CONFIG_VSX */
>> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SPE
>> > -	unsigned long	evr[32];	/* upper 32-bits of SPE regs */
>> > -	u64		acc;		/* Accumulator */
>> > +	struct_group(spe,
>> > +		unsigned long	evr[32];	/* upper 32-bits of SPE regs */
>> > +		u64		acc;		/* Accumulator */
>> > +	);
>> >  	unsigned long	spefscr;	/* SPE & eFP status */
>> >  	unsigned long	spefscr_last;	/* SPEFSCR value on last prctl
>> >  					   call or trap return */
>> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
>> > index 0608581967f0..77b86caf5c51 100644
>> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
>> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
>> > @@ -532,11 +532,11 @@ static long restore_user_regs(struct pt_regs *regs,
>> >  	regs_set_return_msr(regs, regs->msr & ~MSR_SPE);
>> >  	if (msr & MSR_SPE) {
>> >  		/* restore spe registers from the stack */
>> > -		unsafe_copy_from_user(current->thread.evr, &sr->mc_vregs,
>> > -				      ELF_NEVRREG * sizeof(u32), failed);
>> > +		unsafe_copy_from_user(&current->thread.spe, &sr->mc_vregs,
>> > +				      sizeof(current->thread.spe), failed);
>> 
>> This makes me nervous, because the ABI is that we copy ELF_NEVRREG *
>> sizeof(u32) bytes, not whatever sizeof(current->thread.spe) happens to
>> be.
>> 
>> ie. if we use sizeof an inadvertent change to the fields in
>> thread_struct could change how many bytes we copy out to userspace,
>> which would be an ABI break.
>> 
>> And that's not that hard to do, because it's not at all obvious that the
>> size and layout of fields in thread_struct affects the user ABI.
>> 
>> At the same time we don't want to copy the right number of bytes but
>> the wrong content, so from that point of view using sizeof is good :)
>> 
>> The way we handle it in ptrace is to have BUILD_BUG_ON()s to verify that
>> things match up, so maybe we should do that here too.
>> 
>> ie. add:
>> 
>> 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(current->thread.spe) == ELF_NEVRREG * sizeof(u32));
>> 
>> Not sure if you are happy doing that as part of this patch. I can always
>> do it later if not.
>
> Sounds good to me; I did that in a few other cases in the series where
> the relationships between things seemed tenuous. :) I'll add this (as
> !=) in v3.

Thanks.

cheers




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