The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 1c5b51dfb7b4564008e0cadec5381a69e88b0d21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 16:59:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: swp emulation: bound LL/SC retries before rescheduling If a CPU does not implement a global monitor for certain memory types, then userspace can attempt a kernel DoS by issuing SWP instructions targetting the problematic memory (for example, a framebuffer mapped with non-cacheable attributes). The SWP emulation code protects against these sorts of attacks by checking for pending signals and potentially rescheduling when the STXR instruction fails during the emulation. Whilst this is good for avoiding livelock, it harms emulation of legitimate SWP instructions on CPUs where forward progress is not guaranteed if there are memory accesses to the same reservation granule (up to 2k) between the failing STXR and the retry of the LDXR. This patch solves the problem by retrying the STXR a bounded number of times (4) before breaking out of the LL/SC loop and looking for something else to do. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: bd35a4adc413 ("arm64: Port SWP/SWPB emulation support from arm") Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c index 42ffdb54e162..b0988bb1bf64 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c @@ -280,35 +280,43 @@ static void __init register_insn_emulation_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table) /* * Error-checking SWP macros implemented using ldxr{b}/stxr{b} */ -#define __user_swpX_asm(data, addr, res, temp, B) \ + +/* Arbitrary constant to ensure forward-progress of the LL/SC loop */ +#define __SWP_LL_SC_LOOPS 4 + +#define __user_swpX_asm(data, addr, res, temp, temp2, B) \ __asm__ __volatile__( \ + " mov %w3, %w7\n" \ ALTERNATIVE("nop", SET_PSTATE_PAN(0), ARM64_HAS_PAN, \ CONFIG_ARM64_PAN) \ - "0: ldxr"B" %w2, [%3]\n" \ - "1: stxr"B" %w0, %w1, [%3]\n" \ + "0: ldxr"B" %w2, [%4]\n" \ + "1: stxr"B" %w0, %w1, [%4]\n" \ " cbz %w0, 2f\n" \ - " mov %w0, %w4\n" \ + " sub %w3, %w3, #1\n" \ + " cbnz %w3, 0b\n" \ + " mov %w0, %w5\n" \ " b 3f\n" \ "2:\n" \ " mov %w1, %w2\n" \ "3:\n" \ " .pushsection .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \ " .align 2\n" \ - "4: mov %w0, %w5\n" \ + "4: mov %w0, %w6\n" \ " b 3b\n" \ " .popsection" \ _ASM_EXTABLE(0b, 4b) \ _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 4b) \ ALTERNATIVE("nop", SET_PSTATE_PAN(1), ARM64_HAS_PAN, \ CONFIG_ARM64_PAN) \ - : "=&r" (res), "+r" (data), "=&r" (temp) \ - : "r" (addr), "i" (-EAGAIN), "i" (-EFAULT) \ + : "=&r" (res), "+r" (data), "=&r" (temp), "=&r" (temp2) \ + : "r" (addr), "i" (-EAGAIN), "i" (-EFAULT), \ + "i" (__SWP_LL_SC_LOOPS) \ : "memory") -#define __user_swp_asm(data, addr, res, temp) \ - __user_swpX_asm(data, addr, res, temp, "") -#define __user_swpb_asm(data, addr, res, temp) \ - __user_swpX_asm(data, addr, res, temp, "b") +#define __user_swp_asm(data, addr, res, temp, temp2) \ + __user_swpX_asm(data, addr, res, temp, temp2, "") +#define __user_swpb_asm(data, addr, res, temp, temp2) \ + __user_swpX_asm(data, addr, res, temp, temp2, "b") /* * Bit 22 of the instruction encoding distinguishes between @@ -328,12 +336,12 @@ static int emulate_swpX(unsigned int address, unsigned int *data, } while (1) { - unsigned long temp; + unsigned long temp, temp2; if (type == TYPE_SWPB) - __user_swpb_asm(*data, address, res, temp); + __user_swpb_asm(*data, address, res, temp, temp2); else - __user_swp_asm(*data, address, res, temp); + __user_swp_asm(*data, address, res, temp, temp2); if (likely(res != -EAGAIN) || signal_pending(current)) break; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html