x86/paravirt: Detect over-sized patching bugs in paravirt_patch_insns()
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:17:17 +0000 (11:17 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:00:31 +0000 (12:00 +0200)
commit2777cae2b19d4a08ad233b3504c19c6f7a6a2ef3
tree9ad0517b71bf9fce014c9aadde7df601deae676e
parente05196401657cff3178dc392b739e520b26d4aef
x86/paravirt: Detect over-sized patching bugs in paravirt_patch_insns()

So paravirt_patch_insns() contains this gem of logic:

unsigned paravirt_patch_insns(void *insnbuf, unsigned len,
                              const char *start, const char *end)
{
        unsigned insn_len = end - start;

        if (insn_len > len || start == NULL)
                insn_len = len;
        else
                memcpy(insnbuf, start, insn_len);

        return insn_len;
}

Note how 'len' (size of the original instruction) is checked against the new
instruction, and silently discarded with no warning printed whatsoever.

This crashes the kernel in funny ways if the patching template is buggy,
and usually in much later places.

Instead do a direct BUG_ON(), there's no way to continue successfully at that point.

I've tested this patch, with the vanilla kernel check never triggers, and
if I intentionally increase the size of one of the patch templates to a
too high value the assert triggers:

[    0.164385] kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:167!

Without this patch a broken kernel randomly crashes in later places,
after the silent patching failure.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425091717.GA72229@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c