x86/fault: BUG() when uaccess helpers fault on kernel addresses

There have been multiple kernel vulnerabilities that permitted userspace to
pass completely unchecked pointers through to userspace accessors:

 - the waitid() bug - commit 96ca579a1ecc ("waitid(): Add missing
   access_ok() checks")
 - the sg/bsg read/write APIs
 - the infiniband read/write APIs

These don't happen all that often, but when they do happen, it is hard to
test for them properly; and it is probably also hard to discover them with
fuzzing. Even when an unmapped kernel address is supplied to such buggy
code, it just returns -EFAULT instead of doing a proper BUG() or at least
WARN().

Try to make such misbehaving code a bit more visible by refusing to do a
fixup in the pagefault handler code when a userspace accessor causes a #PF
on a kernel address and the current context isn't whitelisted.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828201421.157735-7-jannh@google.com

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
index 856fa409c536..6521134057e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
@@ -117,11 +117,67 @@ __visible bool ex_handler_fprestore(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ex_handler_fprestore);
 
+/* Helper to check whether a uaccess fault indicates a kernel bug. */
+static bool bogus_uaccess(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr,
+			  unsigned long fault_addr)
+{
+	/* This is the normal case: #PF with a fault address in userspace. */
+	if (trapnr == X86_TRAP_PF && fault_addr < TASK_SIZE_MAX)
+		return false;
+
+	/*
+	 * This code can be reached for machine checks, but only if the #MC
+	 * handler has already decided that it looks like a candidate for fixup.
+	 * This e.g. happens when attempting to access userspace memory which
+	 * the CPU can't access because of uncorrectable bad memory.
+	 */
+	if (trapnr == X86_TRAP_MC)
+		return false;
+
+	/*
+	 * There are two remaining exception types we might encounter here:
+	 *  - #PF for faulting accesses to kernel addresses
+	 *  - #GP for faulting accesses to noncanonical addresses
+	 * Complain about anything else.
+	 */
+	if (trapnr != X86_TRAP_PF && trapnr != X86_TRAP_GP) {
+		WARN(1, "unexpected trap %d in uaccess\n", trapnr);
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * This is a faulting memory access in kernel space, on a kernel
+	 * address, in a usercopy function. This can e.g. be caused by improper
+	 * use of helpers like __put_user and by improper attempts to access
+	 * userspace addresses in KERNEL_DS regions.
+	 * The one (semi-)legitimate exception are probe_kernel_{read,write}(),
+	 * which can be invoked from places like kgdb, /dev/mem (for reading)
+	 * and privileged BPF code (for reading).
+	 * The probe_kernel_*() functions set the kernel_uaccess_faults_ok flag
+	 * to tell us that faulting on kernel addresses, and even noncanonical
+	 * addresses, in a userspace accessor does not necessarily imply a
+	 * kernel bug, root might just be doing weird stuff.
+	 */
+	if (current->kernel_uaccess_faults_ok)
+		return false;
+
+	/* This is bad. Refuse the fixup so that we go into die(). */
+	if (trapnr == X86_TRAP_PF) {
+		pr_emerg("BUG: pagefault on kernel address 0x%lx in non-whitelisted uaccess\n",
+			 fault_addr);
+	} else {
+		pr_emerg("BUG: GPF in non-whitelisted uaccess (non-canonical address?)\n");
+	}
+	return true;
+}
+
 __visible bool ex_handler_uaccess(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
 				  struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr,
 				  unsigned long error_code,
 				  unsigned long fault_addr)
 {
+	if (bogus_uaccess(regs, trapnr, fault_addr))
+		return false;
 	regs->ip = ex_fixup_addr(fixup);
 	return true;
 }
@@ -132,6 +188,8 @@ __visible bool ex_handler_ext(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
 			      unsigned long error_code,
 			      unsigned long fault_addr)
 {
+	if (bogus_uaccess(regs, trapnr, fault_addr))
+		return false;
 	/* Special hack for uaccess_err */
 	current->thread.uaccess_err = 1;
 	regs->ip = ex_fixup_addr(fixup);