[tip: x86/urgent] x86/fpu: Ensure shadow stack is active before "getting" registers

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The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     a9d9c33132d49329ada647e4514d210d15e31d81
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/a9d9c33132d49329ada647e4514d210d15e31d81
Author:        Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate:    Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:30:56 -08:00
Committer:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:55:51 -08:00

x86/fpu: Ensure shadow stack is active before "getting" registers

The x86 shadow stack support has its own set of registers. Those registers
are XSAVE-managed, but they are "supervisor state components" which means
that userspace can not touch them with XSAVE/XRSTOR.  It also means that
they are not accessible from the existing ptrace ABI for XSAVE state.
Thus, there is a new ptrace get/set interface for it.

The regset code that ptrace uses provides an ->active() handler in
addition to the get/set ones. For shadow stack this ->active() handler
verifies that shadow stack is enabled via the ARCH_SHSTK_SHSTK bit in the
thread struct. The ->active() handler is checked from some call sites of
the regset get/set handlers, but not the ptrace ones. This was not
understood when shadow stack support was put in place.

As a result, both the set/get handlers can be called with
XFEATURE_CET_USER in its init state, which would cause get_xsave_addr() to
return NULL and trigger a WARN_ON(). The ssp_set() handler luckily has an
ssp_active() check to avoid surprising the kernel with shadow stack
behavior when the kernel is not ready for it (ARCH_SHSTK_SHSTK==0). That
check just happened to avoid the warning.

But the ->get() side wasn't so lucky. It can be called with shadow stacks
disabled, triggering the warning in practice, as reported by Christina
Schimpe:

WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1773 at arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c:198 ssp_get+0x89/0xa0
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_regs+0x6e/0x80
? ssp_get+0x89/0xa0
? __warn+0x91/0x150
? ssp_get+0x89/0xa0
? report_bug+0x19d/0x1b0
? handle_bug+0x46/0x80
? exc_invalid_op+0x1d/0x80
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1f/0x30
? __pfx_ssp_get+0x10/0x10
? ssp_get+0x89/0xa0
? ssp_get+0x52/0xa0
__regset_get+0xad/0xf0
copy_regset_to_user+0x52/0xc0
ptrace_regset+0x119/0x140
ptrace_request+0x13c/0x850
? wait_task_inactive+0x142/0x1d0
? do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x90
arch_ptrace+0x102/0x300
[...]

Ensure that shadow stacks are active in a thread before looking them up
in the XSAVE buffer. Since ARCH_SHSTK_SHSTK and user_ssp[SHSTK_EN] are
set at the same time, the active check ensures that there will be
something to find in the XSAVE buffer.

[ dhansen: changelog/subject tweaks ]

Fixes: 2fab02b25ae7 ("x86: Add PTRACE interface for shadow stack")
Reported-by: Christina Schimpe <christina.schimpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Christina Schimpe <christina.schimpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc:stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250107233056.235536-1-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
---
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c
index 6bc1eb2..887b0b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c
@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ int ssp_get(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
 	struct fpu *fpu = &target->thread.fpu;
 	struct cet_user_state *cetregs;
 
-	if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_USER_SHSTK))
+	if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_USER_SHSTK) ||
+	    !ssp_active(target, regset))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	sync_fpstate(fpu);




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