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* [patch V3 00/20] x86/iopl: Prevent user space from using CLI/STI with iopl(3)
@ 2019-11-13 20:42 Thomas Gleixner
  2019-11-13 20:42 ` [patch V3 01/20] x86/ptrace: Prevent truncation of bitmap size Thomas Gleixner
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From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2019-11-13 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML
  Cc: x86, Andy Lutomirski, Linus Torvalds, Stephen Hemminger,
	Willy Tarreau, Juergen Gross, Sean Christopherson,
	H. Peter Anvin

This is the third version of the attempt to confine the unwanted side
effects of iopl(). The first version of this series can be found here:

   https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191106193459.581614484@linutronix.de

Second version is here:

   https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191111220314.519933535@linutronix.de

The V1 cover letter also contains a longer variant of the
background. Summary:

iopl(level = 3) enables aside of access to all 65536 I/O ports also the
usage of CLI/STI in user space.

Disabling interrupts in user space can lead to system lockups and breaks
assumptions in the kernel that userspace always runs with interrupts
enabled.

iopl() is often preferred over ioperm() as it avoids the overhead of
copying the tasks I/O bitmap to the TSS bitmap on context switch. This
overhead can be avoided by providing a all zeroes bitmap in the TSS and
switching the TSS bitmap offset to this permit all IO bitmap. It's
marginally slower than iopl() which is a one time setup, but prevents the
usage of CLI/STI in user space.

The changes vs. V3:

    - Split out the restructuring of the first/subsequent ioperm()
      invocation into a seperate patch to address the inconsisteny which
      Andy detected in the patch which introduces the concept of
      invalidating the I/O bitmap base to speed up context switching.
      This change is moved in front so the subsequent changes are
      functionally correct.

    - Moved the non HW TSS data related to I/O bitmap(s) into a seperate
      data structure. Modified version of Ingos proposed patch.

    - Made struct memeber names more consistent (Ingo)

    - Dropped the bitmap union. It is not longer necessary because V2
      already dropped the finer grained copying algorithm. The sequence
      count approach should avoid most of the copying overhead when the
      number of ioperm() using processes is very low which is the normal
      case.

    - Dropped the pointer storage of the bitmap in the TSS data as it is
      not required (Peter, Andy)

    - Fixed the missing refcount setting in the bitmap duplication code
      path. (Peter, Andy)

    - Updated changelog and comment to explain the bitmap invalidation
      logic. (Andy)

    - Removed TIF_IO_BITMAP from the TIF flags which are evaluated on the
      next task for entering the slow path.

    - Folded the NULL pointer check fix

    - Simplified the config option in the legacy removal patch (Andy)

    - Extended the scope of the config option to disable ioperm() along
      with iopl() which also mokes all related storage and functions
      compile time conditional. (Andy)

The series is also available from git:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git WIP.x86/iopl

Thanks,

	tglx
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig                        |   18 ++
 arch/x86/entry/common.c                 |    4 
 arch/x86/include/asm/io_bitmap.h        |   29 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h         |    4 
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h   |    2 
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32_types.h |    2 
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h        |  113 ++++++++++-------
 arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h           |    6 
 arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h        |   10 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h      |   14 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h   |    2 
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c            |  188 ++++++++++++----------------
 arch/x86/kernel/doublefault.c           |    2 
 arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c                |  209 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c              |    2 
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c               |  200 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c            |   77 -----------
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c            |   86 -------------
 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c                |   12 +
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c                  |    8 -
 arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c            |    8 +
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c             |   10 -
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/ioperm.c    |   16 ++
 tools/testing/selftests/x86/iopl.c      |  129 ++++++++++++++++++-
 24 files changed, 674 insertions(+), 477 deletions(-)


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* [tip: x86/iopl] x86/iopl: Fixup misleading comment
@ 2019-11-16 11:51 tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
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From: tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner @ 2019-11-16 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-tip-commits
  Cc: Thomas Gleixner, Andy Lutomirski, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov,
	linux-kernel

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

Commit-ID:     be9afb4b529d9e3a68da1212e33be677bbfc8d2c
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/be9afb4b529d9e3a68da1212e33be677bbfc8d2c
Author:        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
AuthorDate:    Mon, 11 Nov 2019 23:03:27 +01:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitterDate: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:24:05 +01:00

x86/iopl: Fixup misleading comment

The comment for the sys_iopl() implementation is outdated and actively
misleading in some parts. Fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
index f82ca1c..3548563 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ioport.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ void io_bitmap_exit(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * this changes the io permissions bitmap in the current task.
+ * This changes the io permissions bitmap in the current task.
  */
 long ksys_ioperm(unsigned long from, unsigned long num, int turn_on)
 {
@@ -136,14 +136,24 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioperm, unsigned long, from, unsigned long, num, int, turn_on)
 }
 
 /*
- * sys_iopl has to be used when you want to access the IO ports
- * beyond the 0x3ff range: to get the full 65536 ports bitmapped
- * you'd need 8kB of bitmaps/process, which is a bit excessive.
+ * The sys_iopl functionality depends on the level argument, which if
+ * granted for the task is used by the CPU to check I/O instruction and
+ * CLI/STI against the current priviledge level (CPL). If CPL is less than
+ * or equal the tasks IOPL level the instructions take effect. If not a #GP
+ * is raised. The default IOPL is 0, i.e. no permissions.
  *
- * Here we just change the flags value on the stack: we allow
- * only the super-user to do it. This depends on the stack-layout
- * on system-call entry - see also fork() and the signal handling
- * code.
+ * Setting IOPL to level 0-2 is disabling the userspace access. Only level
+ * 3 enables it. If set it allows the user space thread:
+ *
+ * - Unrestricted access to all 65535 I/O ports
+ * - The usage of CLI/STI instructions
+ *
+ * The advantage over ioperm is that the context switch does not require to
+ * update the I/O bitmap which is especially true when a large number of
+ * ports is accessed. But the allowance of CLI/STI in userspace is
+ * considered a major problem.
+ *
+ * IOPL is strictly per thread and inherited on fork.
  */
 SYSCALL_DEFINE1(iopl, unsigned int, level)
 {
@@ -164,9 +174,18 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(iopl, unsigned int, level)
 		    security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_IOPORT))
 			return -EPERM;
 	}
+	/*
+	 * Change the flags value on the return stack, which has been set
+	 * up on system-call entry. See also the fork and signal handling
+	 * code how this is handled.
+	 */
 	regs->flags = (regs->flags & ~X86_EFLAGS_IOPL) |
 		(level << X86_EFLAGS_IOPL_BIT);
+	/* Store the new level in the thread struct */
 	t->iopl = level << X86_EFLAGS_IOPL_BIT;
+	/*
+	 * X86_32 switches immediately and XEN handles it via emulation.
+	 */
 	set_iopl_mask(t->iopl);
 
 	return 0;

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