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    powerpc/32: Fix overread/overwrite of thread_struct via ptrace · 8e127844
    Michael Ellerman authored
    The ptrace PEEKUSR/POKEUSR (aka PEEKUSER/POKEUSER) API allows a process
    to read/write registers of another process.
    
    To get/set a register, the API takes an index into an imaginary address
    space called the "USER area", where the registers of the process are
    laid out in some fashion.
    
    The kernel then maps that index to a particular register in its own data
    structures and gets/sets the value.
    
    The API only allows a single machine-word to be read/written at a time.
    So 4 bytes on 32-bit kernels and 8 bytes on 64-bit kernels.
    
    The way floating point registers (FPRs) are addressed is somewhat
    complicated, because double precision float values are 64-bit even on
    32-bit CPUs. That means on 32-bit kernels each FPR occupies two
    word-sized locations in the USER area. On 64-bit kernels each FPR
    occupies one word-sized location in the USER area.
    
    Internally the kernel stores the FPRs in an array of u64s, or if VSX is
    enabled, an array of pairs of u64s where one half of each pair stores
    the FPR. Which half of the pair stores the FPR depends on the kernel's
    endianness.
    
    To handle the different layouts of the FPRs depending on VSX/no-VSX and
    big/little endian, the TS_FPR() macro was introduced.
    
    Unfortunately the TS_FPR() macro does not take into account the fact
    that the addressing of each FPR differs between 32-bit and 64-bit
    kernels. It just takes the index into the "USER area" passed from
    userspace and indexes into the fp_state.fpr array.
    
    On 32-bit there are 64 indexes that address FPRs, but only 32 entries in
    the fp_state.fpr array, meaning the user can read/write 256 bytes past
    the end of the array. Because the fp_state sits in the middle of the
    thread_struct there are various fields than can be overwritten,
    including some pointers. As such it may be exploitable.
    
    It has also been observed to cause systems to hang or otherwise
    misbehave when using gdbserver, and is probably the root cause of this
    report which could not be easily reproduced:
      https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/dc38afe9-6b78-f3f5-666b-986939e40fc6@keymile.com/
    
    Rather than trying to make the TS_FPR() macro even more complicated to
    fix the bug, or add more macros, instead add a special-case for 32-bit
    kernels. This is more obvious and hopefully avoids a similar bug
    happening again in future.
    
    Note that because 32-bit kernels never have VSX enabled the code doesn't
    need to consider TS_FPRWIDTH/OFFSET at all. Add a BUILD_BUG_ON() to
    ensure that 32-bit && VSX is never enabled.
    
    Fixes: 87fec051 ("powerpc: PTRACE_PEEKUSR/PTRACE_POKEUSER of FPR registers in little endian builds")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
    Reported-by: default avatarAriel Miculas <ariel.miculas@belden.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609133245.573565-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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