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Michael Ellerman 9b4416c509 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix stack handling in idle_kvm_start_guest() 
In commit 10d91611f4 ("powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in
C") kvm_start_guest() became idle_kvm_start_guest(). The old code
allocated a stack frame on the emergency stack, but didn't use the
frame to store anything, and also didn't store anything in its caller's
frame.

idle_kvm_start_guest() on the other hand is written more like a normal C
function, it creates a frame on entry, and also stores CR/LR into its
callers frame (per the ABI). The problem is that there is no caller
frame on the emergency stack.

The emergency stack for a given CPU is allocated with:

  paca_ptrs[i]->emergency_sp = alloc_stack(limit, i) + THREAD_SIZE;

So emergency_sp actually points to the first address above the emergency
stack allocation for a given CPU, we must not store above it without
first decrementing it to create a frame. This is different to the
regular kernel stack, paca->kstack, which is initialised to point at an
initial frame that is ready to use.

idle_kvm_start_guest() stores the backchain, CR and LR all of which
write outside the allocation for the emergency stack. It then creates a
stack frame and saves the non-volatile registers. Unfortunately the
frame it creates is not large enough to fit the non-volatiles, and so
the saving of the non-volatile registers also writes outside the
emergency stack allocation.

The end result is that we corrupt whatever is at 0-24 bytes, and 112-248
bytes above the emergency stack allocation.

In practice this has gone unnoticed because the memory immediately above
the emergency stack happens to be used for other stack allocations,
either another CPUs mc_emergency_sp or an IRQ stack. See the order of
calls to irqstack_early_init() and emergency_stack_init().

The low addresses of another stack are the top of that stack, and so are
only used if that stack is under extreme pressue, which essentially
never happens in practice - and if it did there's a high likelyhood we'd
crash due to that stack overflowing.

Still, we shouldn't be corrupting someone else's stack, and it is purely
luck that we aren't corrupting something else.

To fix it we save CR/LR into the caller's frame using the existing r1 on
entry, we then create a SWITCH_FRAME_SIZE frame (which has space for
pt_regs) on the emergency stack with the backchain pointing to the
existing stack, and then finally we switch to the new frame on the
emergency stack.

Fixes: 10d91611f4 ("powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in C")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211015133929.832061-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
History 2021-10-16 00:39:54 +11:00
arch KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix stack handling in idle_kvm_start_guest() 2021-10-16 00:39:54 +11:00
block blk-cgroup: fix UAF by grabbing blkcg lock before destroying blkg pd 2021-09-15 12:03:18 -06:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for v5.15, take 2: 2021-09-18 12:40:55 -07:00
drivers dmascc: use proper 'virt_to_bus()' rather than casting to 'int' 2021-09-19 10:49:42 -07:00
fs iov_iter.3-5.15-2021-09-17 2021-09-17 09:23:44 -07:00
include pci_iounmap'2: Electric Boogaloo: try to make sense of it all 2021-09-19 17:13:35 -07:00
init memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface 2021-09-14 13:23:22 -07:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel A single fix for the perf core where a value read with READ_ONCE() was 2021-09-19 13:22:40 -07:00
lib pci_iounmap'2: Electric Boogaloo: try to make sense of it all 2021-09-19 17:13:35 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface 2021-09-14 13:23:22 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.15-rc2, including fixes from bpf. 2021-09-16 13:05:42 -07:00
samples kgdb patches for 5.15 2021-09-07 12:08:04 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.15 2021-09-19 12:55:12 -07:00
security Kbuild updates for v5.15 2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.15-rc1 2021-09-09 16:05:10 -07:00
tools powerpc fixes for 5.15 #2 2021-09-19 13:00:23 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Drop unused kvm_dirty_gfn_invalid() 2021-09-06 08:23:46 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email address of Matthias Fuchs and Thomas Körper 2021-08-19 09:39:44 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Nirmal Patel as VMD maintainer 2021-09-15 16:44:03 -05:00
Makefile Linux 5.15-rc2 2021-09-19 17:28:22 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.