On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 04:52:51PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > The SLB miss handler calls slb_allocate_realmode() in order to create an > SLB entry for the faulting address. At the very start of that function > we check that the faulting Effective Address (EA) is less than > PGTABLE_RANGE (ignoring the region), ie. is it an address which could > possibly fit in the virtual address space. > > For an EA which fails that test, we branch out of line (to label 8), but > we still go on to create an SLB entry for the address. The SLB entry we > create has a VSID of 0, which means it will never match anything in the > hash table and so can't actually translate to a physical address. > > However that SLB entry will be inserted in the SLB, and so needs to be > managed properly like any other SLB entry. In particular we need to > insert the SLB entry in the SLB cache, so that it will be flushed when > the process is descheduled. > > And that is where the bugs begin. The first bug is that slb_finish_load() > uses cr7 to decide if it should insert the SLB entry into the SLB cache. > When we come from the invalid EA case we don't set cr7, it just has some > junk value from userspace. So we may or may not insert the SLB entry in > the SLB cache. If we fail to insert it, we may then incorrectly leave it > in the SLB when the process is descheduled. > > The second bug is that even if we do happen to add the entry to the SLB > cache, we do not have enough bits in the SLB cache to remember the full > ESID value for very large EAs. > > For example if a process branches to 0x788c545a18000000, that results in > a 256MB SLB entry with an ESID of 0x788c545a1. But each entry in the SLB > cache is only 32-bits, meaning we truncate the ESID to 0x88c545a1. This > has the same effect as the first bug, we incorrectly leave the SLB entry > in the SLB when the process is descheduled. > > When a process accesses an invalid EA it results in a SEGV signal being > sent to the process, which typically results in the process being > killed. Process death isn't instantaneous however, the process may catch > the SEGV signal and continue somehow, or the kernel may start writing a > core dump for the process, either of which means it's possible for the > process to be preempted while its processing the SEGV but before it's > been killed. > > If that happens, when the process is scheduled back onto the CPU we will > allocate a new SLB entry for the NIP, which will insert a second entry > into the SLB for the bad EA. Because we never flushed the original > entry, due to either bug one or two, we now have two SLB entries that > match the same EA. > > If another access is made to that EA, either by the process continuing > after catching the SEGV, or by a second process accessing the same bad > EA on the same CPU, we will trigger an SLB multi-hit machine check > exception. This has been observed happening in the wild. > > The fix is when we hit the invalid EA case, we mark the SLB cache as > being full. This causes us to not insert the truncated ESID into the SLB > cache, and means when the process is switched out we will flush the > entire SLB. Note that this works both for the original fault and for a > subsequent call to slb_allocate_realmode() from switch_slb(). > > Because we mark the SLB cache as full, it doesn't really matter what > value is in cr7, but rather than leaving it as something random we set > it to indicate the address was a kernel address. That also skips the > attempt to insert it in the SLB cache which is a nice side effect. > > Another way to fix the bug would be to make the entries in the SLB cache > wider, so that we don't truncate the ESID. However this would be a more > intrusive change as it alters the size and layout of the paca. > > This bug was fixed in upstream by commit f0f558b131db ("powerpc/mm: > Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address"), > which changed the way we handle a bad EA entirely removing this bug in > the process. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S | 10 ++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) > > Note this patch is not upstream. The bug fix was fixed differently in > upstream prior to the bug being identified. Now applied to 4.4 and 3.18-stable kernels, thanks, greg k-h