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x86/sev-es: Use __put_user()/__get_user() for data accesses
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The put_user() and get_user() functions do checks on the address which is
passed to them. They check whether the address is actually a user-space
address and whether its fine to access it. They also call might_fault()
to indicate that they could fault and possibly sleep.

All of these checks are neither wanted nor needed in the #VC exception
handler, which can be invoked from almost any context and also for MMIO
instructions from kernel space on kernel memory. All the #VC handler
wants to know is whether a fault happened when the access was tried.

This is provided by __put_user()/__get_user(), which just do the access
no matter what. Also add comments explaining why __get_user() and
__put_user() are the best choice here and why it is safe to use them
in this context. Also explain why copy_to/from_user can't be used.

In addition, also revert commit

  7024f60 ("x86/sev-es: Handle string port IO to kernel memory properly")

because using __get_user()/__put_user() fixes the same problem while
the above commit introduced several problems:

  1) It uses access_ok() which is only allowed in task context.

  2) It uses memcpy() which has no fault handling at all and is
     thus unsafe to use here.

  [ bp: Fix up commit ID of the reverted commit above. ]

Fixes: f980f9c ("x86/sev-es: Compile early handler code into kernel image")
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] # v5.10+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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joergroedel authored and suryasaimadhu committed May 19, 2021
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66 changes: 46 additions & 20 deletions arch/x86/kernel/sev.c
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Expand Up @@ -315,31 +315,44 @@ static enum es_result vc_write_mem(struct es_em_ctxt *ctxt,
u16 d2;
u8 d1;

/* If instruction ran in kernel mode and the I/O buffer is in kernel space */
if (!user_mode(ctxt->regs) && !access_ok(target, size)) {
memcpy(dst, buf, size);
return ES_OK;
}

/*
* This function uses __put_user() independent of whether kernel or user
* memory is accessed. This works fine because __put_user() does no
* sanity checks of the pointer being accessed. All that it does is
* to report when the access failed.
*
* Also, this function runs in atomic context, so __put_user() is not
* allowed to sleep. The page-fault handler detects that it is running
* in atomic context and will not try to take mmap_sem and handle the
* fault, so additional pagefault_enable()/disable() calls are not
* needed.
*
* The access can't be done via copy_to_user() here because
* vc_write_mem() must not use string instructions to access unsafe
* memory. The reason is that MOVS is emulated by the #VC handler by
* splitting the move up into a read and a write and taking a nested #VC
* exception on whatever of them is the MMIO access. Using string
* instructions here would cause infinite nesting.
*/
switch (size) {
case 1:
memcpy(&d1, buf, 1);
if (put_user(d1, target))
if (__put_user(d1, target))
goto fault;
break;
case 2:
memcpy(&d2, buf, 2);
if (put_user(d2, target))
if (__put_user(d2, target))
goto fault;
break;
case 4:
memcpy(&d4, buf, 4);
if (put_user(d4, target))
if (__put_user(d4, target))
goto fault;
break;
case 8:
memcpy(&d8, buf, 8);
if (put_user(d8, target))
if (__put_user(d8, target))
goto fault;
break;
default:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -370,30 +383,43 @@ static enum es_result vc_read_mem(struct es_em_ctxt *ctxt,
u16 d2;
u8 d1;

/* If instruction ran in kernel mode and the I/O buffer is in kernel space */
if (!user_mode(ctxt->regs) && !access_ok(s, size)) {
memcpy(buf, src, size);
return ES_OK;
}

/*
* This function uses __get_user() independent of whether kernel or user
* memory is accessed. This works fine because __get_user() does no
* sanity checks of the pointer being accessed. All that it does is
* to report when the access failed.
*
* Also, this function runs in atomic context, so __get_user() is not
* allowed to sleep. The page-fault handler detects that it is running
* in atomic context and will not try to take mmap_sem and handle the
* fault, so additional pagefault_enable()/disable() calls are not
* needed.
*
* The access can't be done via copy_from_user() here because
* vc_read_mem() must not use string instructions to access unsafe
* memory. The reason is that MOVS is emulated by the #VC handler by
* splitting the move up into a read and a write and taking a nested #VC
* exception on whatever of them is the MMIO access. Using string
* instructions here would cause infinite nesting.
*/
switch (size) {
case 1:
if (get_user(d1, s))
if (__get_user(d1, s))
goto fault;
memcpy(buf, &d1, 1);
break;
case 2:
if (get_user(d2, s))
if (__get_user(d2, s))
goto fault;
memcpy(buf, &d2, 2);
break;
case 4:
if (get_user(d4, s))
if (__get_user(d4, s))
goto fault;
memcpy(buf, &d4, 4);
break;
case 8:
if (get_user(d8, s))
if (__get_user(d8, s))
goto fault;
memcpy(buf, &d8, 8);
break;
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