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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 12:46:29 -0800
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc: alex.popov@...ux.com, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, lkp@...org, lkp@...el.com,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: afaef01c00 ("x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack .."): double fault: 0000 [#1]
> On Nov 9, 2018, at 12:06 PM, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> +Andy, Thomas, Ingo
>
>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:24 PM kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com> wrote:
>> 0day kernel testing robot got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>>
>> commit afaef01c001537fa97a25092d7f54d764dc7d8c1
>> Author: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
>> AuthorDate: Fri Aug 17 01:16:58 2018 +0300
>> Commit: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>> CommitDate: Tue Sep 4 10:35:47 2018 -0700
>>
>> x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls
> [...]
>> [ 127.808225] double fault: 0000 [#1]
>> [ 127.808695] CPU: 0 PID: 414 Comm: trinity-main Tainted: G T 4.19.0-rc2-00001-gafaef01 #1
>> [ 127.809799] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
>> [ 127.810760] RIP: 0010:ftrace_ops_test+0x27/0xa0
>> [ 127.811289] Code: eb 9a 90 41 54 55 49 89 f4 53 48 89 d3 48 89 fd 48 81 ec b0 00 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 84 24 a8 00 00 00 31 c0 <e8> 54 df ff ff 48 85 db 74 57 e8 4a df ff ff 48 8b 85 d0 00 00 00
>> [ 127.813385] RSP: 0018:fffffe0000001fb8 EFLAGS: 00010046
> [...]
>> [ 127.819762] CR2: fffffe0000001fa8 CR3: 000000001579a000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
> [...]
>> [ 127.822234] Call Trace:
>> [ 127.822530] <ENTRY_TRAMPOLINE>
>> [ 127.822914] ? __ia32_sys_rseq+0x2f0/0x2f0
>> [ 127.823395] ftrace_ops_list_func+0xa5/0x1b0
>> [ 127.823922] ftrace_call+0x5/0x34
>> [ 127.824318] ? stackleak_erase+0x5/0xf0
>> [ 127.824789] ? stackleak_erase+0x43/0xf0
>> [ 127.825260] stackleak_erase+0x5/0xf0
>> [ 127.825699] syscall_return_via_sysret+0x61/0x81
>> [ 127.826238] WARNING: stack recursion on stack type 4
>> [ 127.826243] WARNING: can't dereference registers at (____ptrval____) for ip syscall_return_via_sysret+0x61/0x81
>> [ 127.826246] </ENTRY_TRAMPOLINE>
>> [ 127.828342] ---[ end trace e9f96d3f45575499 ]---
>> [ 127.828911] RIP: 0010:ftrace_ops_test+0x27/0xa0
>
> CR2: fffffe0000001fa8, RSP: 0018:fffffe0000001fb8; this is a pagefault
> on the stack. fffffe0000000000 is CPU_ENTRY_AREA_RO_IDT;
> fffffe0000001000 is CPU_ENTRY_AREA_PER_CPU; so fffffe0000002000 is the
> page with the entry stack for cpu 0, and you overflowed from that into
> the readonly gdt at fffffe0000001000, which doubles as a guard page
> for the entry stack:
>
> struct cpu_entry_area {
> char gdt[PAGE_SIZE];
>
> /*
> * The GDT is just below entry_stack and thus serves (on x86_64) as
> * a a read-only guard page.
> */
> struct entry_stack_page entry_stack_page;
> [...]
> };
>
> In other words: You're calling C code on the entry trampoline stack;
> this C code can call into ftrace; and the entry trampoline stack isn't
> big enough for ftrace shenanigans. I think you probably shouldn't be
> calling C code on the entry stack, but maybe one of the X86 folks has
> a different opinion?
My opinion was that, on x86_32, the entry stack ought to be fairly large so that NMIs could execute on the entry stack. I don’t remember what the code actually does, though.
But stackleak_erase should probably not run on the entry stack. That seems like it’s just asking for trouble.
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