Reorder actions in save_user_regs() and save_tm_user_regs() to
regroup copies together in order to switch to user_access_begin()
logic in a later patch.
Move non-copy actions into new functions called
prepare_save_user_regs() and prepare_save_tm_user_regs().
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f6eac65781b4a57220477c8864bca2b57f29a5d5.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
put_sigset_t() calls copy_to_user() for copying two words.
This is terribly inefficient for copying two words.
By switching to unsafe_put_user(), we end up with something as
simple as:
3cc: 81 3d 00 00 lwz r9,0(r29)
3d0: 91 26 00 b4 stw r9,180(r6)
3d4: 81 3d 00 04 lwz r9,4(r29)
3d8: 91 26 00 b8 stw r9,184(r6)
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/06def97e87ac1c4ae8e3197e0982e1fab7b3c8ae.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Implement 'unsafe' version of put_compat_sigset()
For the bigendian, use unsafe_put_user() directly
to avoid intermediate copy through the stack.
For the littleendian, use a straight unsafe_copy_to_user().
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/537c7082ee309a0bb9c67a50c5d9dd929aedb82d.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
On the same way as handle_signal32(), replace all user
accesses with equivalent unsafe_ versions, and move the
trampoline code icache flush outside the user access block.
Functions that have no unsafe_ equivalent also remains outside
the access block.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2974314226256f958e2984912b48883ef1754185.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Those two functions are similar and serving the same purpose.
To ease refactorisation, move them close to each other.
This is pure move, no code change, no cosmetic. Yes, checkpatch is
not happy, most will clear later.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dbce67900bf566bcf40179467bf1eb500814c405.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
If something is bad in the frame, there is no point in
knowing which part of the frame exactly is wrong as it
got allocated as a single block.
Always print the root address of the frame in case of
failed user access, just like handle_signal32().
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/691895bd31fee89a2d8370befd66ad4eff5b63f2.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Instead of calling get_tm_stackpointer() from the caller, call it
directly from get_sigframe(). This avoids a double call and
allows get_tm_stackpointer() to become static and be inlined
into get_sigframe() by GCC.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/abfdc105b8b28c4eb3ab9a26297d17f302b600ea.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
get_clean_sp() is only used once in kernel/signal.c .
GCC is smart enough to see that x & 0xffffffff is a nop
calculation on PPC32, no need of a special PPC32 trivial version.
Include the logic from the PPC64 version of get_clean_sp() directly
in get_sigframe().
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/13ef6510ce30a4867e043157b93af5bb8c67fb3b.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
There is no point in copying floating point regs when there
is no FPU and MATH_EMULATION is not selected.
Create a new CONFIG_PPC_FPU_REGS bool that is selected by
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION and CONFIG_PPC_FPU, and use it to
opt out everything related to fp_state in thread_struct.
The asm const used only by fpu.S are opted out with CONFIG_PPC_FPU
as fpu.S build is conditionnal to CONFIG_PPC_FPU.
The following app spends approx 8.1 seconds system time on an 8xx
without the patch, and 7.0 seconds with the patch (13.5% reduction).
On an 832x, it spends approx 2.6 seconds system time without
the patch and 2.1 seconds with the patch (19% reduction).
void sigusr1(int sig) { }
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i = 100000;
signal(SIGUSR1, sigusr1);
for (;i--;)
raise(SIGUSR1);
exit(0);
}
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7569070083e6cd5b279bb5023da601aba3c06f3c.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Today we have:
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
index = addr >> 2;
if ((addr & 3) || child->thread.regs == NULL)
#else
index = addr >> 3;
if ((addr & 7))
#endif
sizeof(long) has value 4 for PPC32 and value 8 for PPC64.
Dividing by 4 is equivalent to >> 2 and dividing by 8 is equivalent
to >> 3.
And 3 and 7 are respectively (sizeof(long) - 1).
Use sizeof(long) to get rid of the #ifdef CONFIG_PPC32 and consolidate
the calculation and checking.
thread.regs have to be not NULL on both PPC32 and PPC64 so adding
that test on PPC64 is harmless.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3cd1e284e93c60db981659585e18d1f6bb73ed2f.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
To really be inlined, the functions need to be defined in the
same C file as the caller, or in an included header.
Move functions defined inline from signal .c in signal.h
Fixes: 3dd4eb83a9 ("powerpc: move common register copy functions from signal_32.c to signal.c")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/35b1bd44a1a66f5bcf9b457a1c480ac8d5ef50b2.1597770847.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Provides __kernel_clock_gettime64() on vdso32. This is the
64 bits version of __kernel_clock_gettime() which is
y2038 compliant.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-9-mpe@ellerman.id.au
On PPC64, the TOC pointer needs to be saved and restored.
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-7-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Prepare for switching VDSO to generic C implementation in following
patch. Here, we:
- Prepare the helpers to call the C VDSO functions
- Prepare the required callbacks for the C VDSO functions
- Prepare the clocksource.h files to define VDSO_ARCH_CLOCKMODES
- Add the C trampolines to the generic C VDSO functions
powerpc is a bit special for VDSO as well as system calls in the
way that it requires setting CR SO bit which cannot be done in C.
Therefore, entry/exit needs to be performed in ASM.
Implementing __arch_get_vdso_data() would clobber the link register,
requiring the caller to save it. As the ASM calling function already
has to set a stack frame and saves the link register before calling
the C vdso function, retriving the vdso data pointer there is lighter.
Implement __arch_vdso_capable() and always return true.
Provide vdso_shift_ns(), as the generic x >> s gives the following
bad result:
18: 35 25 ff e0 addic. r9,r5,-32
1c: 41 80 00 10 blt 2c <shift+0x14>
20: 7c 64 4c 30 srw r4,r3,r9
24: 38 60 00 00 li r3,0
...
2c: 54 69 08 3c rlwinm r9,r3,1,0,30
30: 21 45 00 1f subfic r10,r5,31
34: 7c 84 2c 30 srw r4,r4,r5
38: 7d 29 50 30 slw r9,r9,r10
3c: 7c 63 2c 30 srw r3,r3,r5
40: 7d 24 23 78 or r4,r9,r4
In our case the shift is always <= 32. In addition, the upper 32 bits
of the result are likely nul. Lets GCC know it, it also optimises the
following calculations.
With the patch, we get:
0: 21 25 00 20 subfic r9,r5,32
4: 7c 69 48 30 slw r9,r3,r9
8: 7c 84 2c 30 srw r4,r4,r5
c: 7d 24 23 78 or r4,r9,r4
10: 7c 63 2c 30 srw r3,r3,r5
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-6-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Currently we use ifdef __powerpc64__ in barrier.h to decide if we
should use lwsync or eieio for SMPWMB which is then used by
__smp_wmb().
That means when we are building the compat VDSO we will use eieio,
because it's 32-bit code, even though we're building a 64-bit kernel
for a 64-bit CPU.
Although eieio should work, it would be cleaner if we always used the
same barrier, even for the 32-bit VDSO.
So change the ifdef to CONFIG_PPC64, so that the selection is made
based on the bitness of the kernel we're building for, not the current
compilation unit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-5-mpe@ellerman.id.au
When we're building the compat VDSO we are building 32-bit code but in
the context of a 64-bit kernel configuration.
To make this work we need to be careful in some places when using
ifdefs to differentiate between CONFIG_PPC64 and __powerpc64__.
CONFIG_PPC64 indicates the kernel we're building is 64-bit, but it
doesn't tell us that we're currently building 64-bit code - we could
be building 32-bit code for the compat VDSO.
On the other hand __powerpc64__ tells us that we are currently
building 64-bit code (and therefore we must also be building a 64-bit
kernel).
In the case of get_tb() we want to use the 32-bit code sequence
regardless of whether the kernel we're building for is 64-bit or
32-bit, what matters is the word size of the current object. So we
need to check __powerpc64__ to decide if we use mftb() or the
mftbu()/mftb() sequence.
For mftb() the logic for CPU_FTR_CELL_TB_BUG only makes sense if we're
building 64-bit code, so guard that with a __powerpc64__ check.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-4-mpe@ellerman.id.au
In order to easily use get_tb() from C VDSO, move timebase
functions into a new header named asm/vdso/timebase.h
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-3-mpe@ellerman.id.au
cpu_relax() need to be in asm/vdso/processor.h to be used by
the C VDSO generic library.
Move it there.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
In order to build VDSO32 for PPC64, we need to have CPU_FTRS_POSSIBLE
and CPU_FTRS_ALWAYS independant of whether we are building the
32 bits VDSO or the 64 bits VDSO.
Use #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 instead of #ifdef __powerpc64__
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Update the NUMA Kconfig description to match other architectures, and
add some help text. Shamelessly borrowed from x86/arm64.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201124120547.1940635-3-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Our NUMA option is default y for pseries, but not powernv. The bulk of
powernv systems are NUMA, so make NUMA default y for powernv also.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201124120547.1940635-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Our Kconfig allows NUMA to be enabled without SMP, but none of
our defconfigs use that combination. This means it can easily be
broken inadvertently by code changes, which has happened recently.
Although it's theoretically possible to have a machine with a single
CPU and multiple memory nodes, I can't think of any real systems where
that's the case. Even so if such a system exists, it can just run an
SMP kernel anyway.
So to avoid the need to add extra #ifdefs and/or build breaks, make
NUMA depend on SMP.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201124120547.1940635-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
On systems without any specific PMU driver support registered, running
'perf record' with —intr-regs will crash ( perf record -I <workload> ).
The relevant portion from crash logs and Call Trace:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000068
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000013eb18
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
CPU: 2 PID: 13435 Comm: kill Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.18.0-193.el8.ppc64le #1
NIP: c00000000013eb18 LR: c000000000139f2c CTR: c000000000393d80
REGS: c0000004a07ab4f0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.18.0-193.el8.ppc64le)
NIP [c00000000013eb18] is_sier_available+0x18/0x30
LR [c000000000139f2c] perf_reg_value+0x6c/0xb0
Call Trace:
[c0000004a07ab770] [c0000004a07ab7c8] 0xc0000004a07ab7c8 (unreliable)
[c0000004a07ab7a0] [c0000000003aa77c] perf_output_sample+0x60c/0xac0
[c0000004a07ab840] [c0000000003ab3f0] perf_event_output_forward+0x70/0xb0
[c0000004a07ab8c0] [c00000000039e208] __perf_event_overflow+0x88/0x1a0
[c0000004a07ab910] [c00000000039e42c] perf_swevent_hrtimer+0x10c/0x1d0
[c0000004a07abc50] [c000000000228b9c] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x17c/0x480
[c0000004a07abcf0] [c00000000022aaf4] hrtimer_interrupt+0x144/0x520
[c0000004a07abdd0] [c00000000002a864] timer_interrupt+0x104/0x2f0
[c0000004a07abe30] [c0000000000091c4] decrementer_common+0x114/0x120
When perf record session is started with "-I" option, capturing registers
on each sample calls is_sier_available() to check for the
SIER (Sample Instruction Event Register) availability in the platform.
This function in core-book3s accesses 'ppmu->flags'. If a platform specific
PMU driver is not registered, ppmu is set to NULL and accessing its
members results in a crash. Fix the crash by returning false in
is_sier_available() if ppmu is not set.
Fixes: 333804dc3b ("powerpc/perf: Update perf_regs structure to include SIER")
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1606185640-1720-1-git-send-email-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Use bcl 20,31,0f rather than plain bl to avoid unbalancing the link
stack.
Update the code to use REL16 relocs, available for ppc64 in 2009 (and
ppc32 in 2005).
Signed-off-by: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
[mpe: Incorporate more detail into the change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The clang toolchain treats inline assembly a bit differently than
straight assembly code. In particular, inline assembly doesn't have
the complete context available to resolve expressions. This is
intentional to avoid divergence in the resulting assembly code.
We can work around this issue by borrowing a workaround done for ARM,
i.e. not directly testing the labels themselves, but by moving the
current output pointer by a value that should always be zero. If this
value is not null, then we will trigger a backward move, which is
explicitly forbidden.
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
[mpe: Put it in a macro and only do the workaround for clang]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201120224034.191382-4-morbo@google.com
The "-z notext" flag disables reporting an error if DT_TEXTREL is set.
ld.lld: error: can't create dynamic relocation R_PPC64_ADDR64 against
symbol: _start in readonly segment; recompile object files with
-fPIC or pass '-Wl,-z,notext' to allow text relocations in the
output
>>> defined in
>>> referenced by crt0.o:(.text+0x8) in archive arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper.a
The BFD linker disables this by default (though it's configurable in
current versions). LLD enables this by default. So we add the flag to
keep LLD from emitting the error.
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201120224034.191382-2-morbo@google.com
Normally all read-only sections precede SHF_WRITE sections. .dynamic
and .got have the SHF_WRITE flag; .dynamic probably because of
DT_DEBUG. LLD emits an error when this happens, so use "-z rodynamic"
to mark .dynamic as read-only.
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118223910.2711337-1-morbo@google.com
Both .dynamic and .got are RELRO sections and should be placed
together, and LLD emits an error:
ld.lld: error: section: .got is not contiguous with other relro sections
Place them together to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201017000151.150788-1-morbo@google.com
The commit a8a4b03ab9 ("powerpc: Hard wire PT_SOFTE value to 1 in
ptrace & signals") changed ptrace_get_reg(PT_SOFTE) to report 0x1,
but PTRACE_GETREGS still copies pt_regs->softe as is.
This is not consistent and this breaks the user-regs-peekpoke test
from https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/utrace/tests/
Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201119160247.GB5188@redhat.com
gpr_get() does membuf_write() twice to override pt_regs->msr in
between. We can call membuf_write() once and change ->msr in the
kernel buffer, this simplifies the code and the next fix.
The patch adds a new simple helper, membuf_at(offs), it returns the
new membuf which can be safely used after membuf_write().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[mpe: Fixup some minor whitespace issues noticed by Christophe]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201119160221.GA5188@redhat.com
Using DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE needs linux/jump_table.h.
Otherwise the build fails with eg:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/kup-radix.h:66:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
66 | DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(uaccess_flush_key);
Fixes: 9a32a7e78b ("powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
[mpe: Massage change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201123184016.693fe464@canb.auug.org.au
From Daniel's cover letter:
IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.
However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.
This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern.
This patch series flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry (patch 2) and after the
kernel performs any user accesses (patch 3). It also adds a self-test and
performs some related cleanups.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-cve-2020-4788' into fixes
From Daniel's cover letter:
IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.
However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.
This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern.
This patch series flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry (patch 2) and after the
kernel performs any user accesses (patch 3). It also adds a self-test and
performs some related cleanups.
pseries|pnv_setup_rfi_flush already does the count cache flush setup, and
we just added entry and uaccess flushes. So the name is not very accurate
any more. In both platforms we then also immediately setup the STF flush.
Rename them to _setup_security_mitigations and fold the STF flush in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
