From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: x86@kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>, Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Subject: [PATCH] x86/apic: Initialize TPR to block interrupts 16-31 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:23:14 -0700 Message-ID: <dc04a9f8b234d7b0956a8d2560b8945bcd9c4bf7.1563117760.git.luto@kernel.org> (raw) The APIC, per spec, is fundamentally confused and thinks that interrupt vectors 16-31 are valid. This makes no sense -- the CPU reserves vectors 0-31 for exceptions (faults, traps, etc). Obviously, no device should actually produce an interrupt with vector 16-31, but we can improve robustness by setting the APIC TPR class to 1, which will prevent delivery of an interrupt with a vector below 32. Note: this is *not* intended as a security measure against attackers who control malicious hardware. Any PCI or similar hardware that can be controlled by an attacker MUST be behind a functional IOMMU that remaps interrupts. The purpose of this patch is to reduce the chance that a certain class of device malfunctions crashes the kernel in hard-to-debug ways. Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c index 177aa8ef2afa..ff31322f8839 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c @@ -1531,11 +1531,14 @@ static void setup_local_APIC(void) #endif /* - * Set Task Priority to 'accept all'. We never change this - * later on. + * Set Task Priority to 'accept all except vectors 0-31'. An APIC + * vector in the 16-31 range could be delivered if TPR == 0, but we + * would think it's an exception and terrible things will happen. We + * never change this later on. */ value = apic_read(APIC_TASKPRI); value &= ~APIC_TPRI_MASK; + value |= 0x10; apic_write(APIC_TASKPRI, value); apic_pending_intr_clear(); -- 2.21.0
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