x86_64, entry: Filter RFLAGS.NT on entry from userspace

amluto · H. Peter Anvin · commit 8c7aa698baca · 2014-10-06T10:53:26.000-07:00
The NT flag doesn't do anything in long mode other than causing IRET to #GP. Oddly, CPL3 code can still set NT using popf. Entry via hardware or software interrupt clears NT automatically, so the only relevant entries are fast syscalls. If user code causes kernel code to run with NT set, then there's at least some (small) chance that it could cause trouble. For example, user code could cause a call to EFI code with NT set, and who knows what would happen? Apparently some games on Wine sometimes do this (!), and, if an IRET return happens, they will segfault. That segfault cannot be handled, because signal delivery fails, too. This patch programs the CPU to clear NT on entry via SYSCALL (both 32-bit and 64-bit, by my reading of the AMD APM), and it clears NT in software on entry via SYSENTER. To save a few cycles, this borrows a trick from Jan Beulich in Xen: it checks whether NT is set before trying to clear it. As a result, it seems to have very little effect on SYSENTER performance on my machine. There's another minor bug fix in here: it looks like the CFI annotations were wrong if CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n. Testers beware: on Xen, SYSENTER with NT set turns into a GPF. I haven't touched anything on 32-bit kernels. The syscall mask change comes from a variant of this patch by Anish Bhatt. Note to stable maintainers: there is no known security issue here. A misguided program can set NT and cause the kernel to try and fail to deliver SIGSEGV, crashing the program. This patch fixes Far Cry on Wine: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33275 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/395749a5d39a29bd3e4b35899cf3a3c1340e5595.1412189265.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
@@ -151,6 +151,16 @@ ENTRY(ia32_sysenter_target)
 1:	movl	(%rbp),%ebp
 	_ASM_EXTABLE(1b,ia32_badarg)
 	ASM_CLAC
+
+	/*
+	 * Sysenter doesn't filter flags, so we need to clear NT
+	 * ourselves.  To save a few cycles, we can check whether
+	 * NT was set instead of doing an unconditional popfq.
+	 */
+	testl $X86_EFLAGS_NT,EFLAGS(%rsp)	/* saved EFLAGS match cpu */
+	jnz sysenter_fix_flags
+sysenter_flags_fixed:
+
 	orl     $TS_COMPAT,TI_status+THREAD_INFO(%rsp,RIP-ARGOFFSET)
 	testl   $_TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY,TI_flags+THREAD_INFO(%rsp,RIP-ARGOFFSET)
 	CFI_REMEMBER_STATE
@@ -184,6 +194,8 @@ sysexit_from_sys_call:
 	TRACE_IRQS_ON
 	ENABLE_INTERRUPTS_SYSEXIT32
 
+	CFI_RESTORE_STATE
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
 	.macro auditsys_entry_common
 	movl %esi,%r9d			/* 6th arg: 4th syscall arg */
@@ -226,7 +238,6 @@ sysexit_from_sys_call:
 	.endm
 
 sysenter_auditsys:
-	CFI_RESTORE_STATE
 	auditsys_entry_common
 	movl %ebp,%r9d			/* reload 6th syscall arg */
 	jmp sysenter_dispatch
@@ -235,6 +246,11 @@ sysexit_audit:
 	auditsys_exit sysexit_from_sys_call
 #endif
 
+sysenter_fix_flags:
+	pushq_cfi $(X86_EFLAGS_IF|X86_EFLAGS_FIXED)
+	popfq_cfi
+	jmp sysenter_flags_fixed
+
 sysenter_tracesys:
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
 	testl	$(_TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY & ~_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT),TI_flags+THREAD_INFO(%rsp,RIP-ARGOFFSET)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ void syscall_init(void)
 	/* Flags to clear on syscall */
 	wrmsrl(MSR_SYSCALL_MASK,
 	       X86_EFLAGS_TF|X86_EFLAGS_DF|X86_EFLAGS_IF|
-	       X86_EFLAGS_IOPL|X86_EFLAGS_AC);
+	       X86_EFLAGS_IOPL|X86_EFLAGS_AC|X86_EFLAGS_NT);
 }
 
 /*

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ void syscall_init(void)`
`1184`	`1184`	`/* Flags to clear on syscall */`
`1185`	`1185`	`wrmsrl(MSR_SYSCALL_MASK,`
`1186`	`1186`	`X86_EFLAGS_TF\|X86_EFLAGS_DF\|X86_EFLAGS_IF\|`
`1187`		`- X86_EFLAGS_IOPL\|X86_EFLAGS_AC);`
	`1187`	`+ X86_EFLAGS_IOPL\|X86_EFLAGS_AC\|X86_EFLAGS_NT);`
`1188`	`1188`	`}`
`1189`	`1189`
`1190`	`1190`	`/*`