[PATCH 4.19 09/11] uaccess: Add speculation barrier to copy_from_user()

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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 74e19ef0ff8061ef55957c3abd71614ef0f42f47 upstream.

The results of "access_ok()" can be mis-speculated.  The result is that
you can end speculatively:

	if (access_ok(from, size))
		// Right here

even for bad from/size combinations.  On first glance, it would be ideal
to just add a speculation barrier to "access_ok()" so that its results
can never be mis-speculated.

But there are lots of system calls just doing access_ok() via
"copy_to_user()" and friends (example: fstat() and friends).  Those are
generally not problematic because they do not _consume_ data from
userspace other than the pointer.  They are also very quick and common
system calls that should not be needlessly slowed down.

"copy_from_user()" on the other hand uses a user-controller pointer and
is frequently followed up with code that might affect caches.  Take
something like this:

	if (!copy_from_user(&kernelvar, uptr, size))
		do_something_with(kernelvar);

If userspace passes in an evil 'uptr' that *actually* points to a kernel
addresses, and then do_something_with() has cache (or other)
side-effects, it could allow userspace to infer kernel data values.

Add a barrier to the common copy_from_user() code to prevent
mis-speculated values which happen after the copy.

Also add a stub for architectures that do not define barrier_nospec().
This makes the macro usable in generic code.

Since the barrier is now usable in generic code, the x86 #ifdef in the
BPF code can also go away.

Reported-by: Jordy Zomer <jordyzomer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>   # BPF bits
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/nospec.h |    4 ++++
 kernel/bpf/core.c      |    2 --
 lib/usercopy.c         |    7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/nospec.h
+++ b/include/linux/nospec.h
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 
 struct task_struct;
 
+#ifndef barrier_nospec
+# define barrier_nospec() do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
 /**
  * array_index_mask_nospec() - generate a ~0 mask when index < size, 0 otherwise
  * @index: array element index
--- a/kernel/bpf/core.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/core.c
@@ -1373,9 +1373,7 @@ out:
 		 * reuse preexisting logic from Spectre v1 mitigation that
 		 * happens to produce the required code on x86 for v4 as well.
 		 */
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86
 		barrier_nospec();
-#endif
 		CONT;
 #define LDST(SIZEOP, SIZE)						\
 	STX_MEM_##SIZEOP:						\
--- a/lib/usercopy.c
+++ b/lib/usercopy.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/nospec.h>
 
 /* out-of-line parts */
 
@@ -9,6 +10,12 @@ unsigned long _copy_from_user(void *to,
 	unsigned long res = n;
 	might_fault();
 	if (likely(access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n))) {
+		/*
+		 * Ensure that bad access_ok() speculation will not
+		 * lead to nasty side effects *after* the copy is
+		 * finished:
+		 */
+		barrier_nospec();
 		kasan_check_write(to, n);
 		res = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
 	}





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