[PATCH] powerpc/security: Fix debugfs data leak on 32-bit

[PATCH] powerpc/security: Fix debugfs data leak on 32-bit

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

"powerpc_security_features" is "unsigned long", i.e. 32-bit or 64-bit,
depending on the platform (PPC_FSL_BOOK3E or PPC_BOOK3S_64).  Hence
casting its address to "u64 *", and calling debugfs_create_x64() is
wrong, and leaks 32-bit of nearby data to userspace on 32-bit platforms.

While all currently defined SEC_FTR_* security feature flags fit in
32-bit, they all have "ULL" suffixes to make them 64-bit constants.
Hence fix the leak by changing the type of "powerpc_security_features"
(and the parameter types of its accessors) to "u64".  This also allows
to drop the cast.

Fixes: 398af571128fe75f ("powerpc/security: Show powerpc_security_features in debugfs")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
---
Compile-tested only.

Alternatively, powerpc_security_features could be changed to u32.
However, that would require using debugfs_create_x32() instead of
debugfs_create_x64(), which would change the debugfs file formatting
from "0x%016llx" to "0x%08llx".
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h | 8 ++++----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c               | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h
index 759597bf0fd867bd..a3e8ecd48dc7ffa0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #define _ASM_POWERPC_SECURITY_FEATURES_H
 
 
-extern unsigned long powerpc_security_features;
+extern u64 powerpc_security_features;
 extern bool rfi_flush;
 
 /* These are bit flags */
@@ -24,17 +24,17 @@ void setup_stf_barrier(void);
 void do_stf_barrier_fixups(enum stf_barrier_type types);
 void setup_count_cache_flush(void);
 
-static inline void security_ftr_set(unsigned long feature)
+static inline void security_ftr_set(u64 feature)
 {
 	powerpc_security_features |= feature;
 }
 
-static inline void security_ftr_clear(unsigned long feature)
+static inline void security_ftr_clear(u64 feature)
 {
 	powerpc_security_features &= ~feature;
 }
 
-static inline bool security_ftr_enabled(unsigned long feature)
+static inline bool security_ftr_enabled(u64 feature)
 {
 	return !!(powerpc_security_features & feature);
 }
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
index 7cfcb294b11ca7be..2e9a7e20d05c5f79 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 
 
-unsigned long powerpc_security_features __read_mostly = SEC_FTR_DEFAULT;
+u64 powerpc_security_features __read_mostly = SEC_FTR_DEFAULT;
 
 enum count_cache_flush_type {
 	COUNT_CACHE_FLUSH_NONE	= 0x1,
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ device_initcall(barrier_nospec_debugfs_init);
 static __init int security_feature_debugfs_init(void)
 {
 	debugfs_create_x64("security_features", 0400, powerpc_debugfs_root,
-			   (u64 *)&powerpc_security_features);
+			   &powerpc_security_features);
 	return 0;
 }
 device_initcall(security_feature_debugfs_init);
-- 
2.17.1

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/security: Fix debugfs data leak on 32-bit

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 14:23:09 UTC, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> "powerpc_security_features" is "unsigned long", i.e. 32-bit or 64-bit,
> depending on the platform (PPC_FSL_BOOK3E or PPC_BOOK3S_64).  Hence
> casting its address to "u64 *", and calling debugfs_create_x64() is
> wrong, and leaks 32-bit of nearby data to userspace on 32-bit platforms.
> 
> While all currently defined SEC_FTR_* security feature flags fit in
> 32-bit, they all have "ULL" suffixes to make them 64-bit constants.
> Hence fix the leak by changing the type of "powerpc_security_features"
> (and the parameter types of its accessors) to "u64".  This also allows
> to drop the cast.
> 
> Fixes: 398af571128fe75f ("powerpc/security: Show powerpc_security_features in debugfs")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/3b05a1e517e1a8cfda4866ec31d28b2bc4fee4c4

cheers