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Andy Lutomirski 6ea59b074f x86/fault: Improve the condition for signalling vs OOPSing
__bad_area_nosemaphore() currently checks the X86_PF_USER bit in the
error code to decide whether to send a signal or to treat the fault
as a kernel error.  This can cause somewhat erratic behavior.  The
straightforward cases where the CPL agrees with the hardware USER
bit are all correct, but the other cases are confusing.

 - A user instruction accessing a kernel address with supervisor
   privilege (e.g. a descriptor table access failed).  The USER bit
   will be clear, and we OOPS.  This is correct, because it indicates
   a kernel bug, not a user error.

 - A user instruction accessing a user address with supervisor
   privilege (e.g. a descriptor table was incorrectly pointing at
   user memory).  __bad_area_nosemaphore() will be passed a modified
   error code with the user bit set, and we will send a signal.
   Sending the signal will work (because the regs and the entry
   frame genuinely come from user mode), but we really ought to
   OOPS, as this event indicates a severe kernel bug.

 - A kernel instruction with user privilege (i.e. WRUSS).  This
   should OOPS or get fixed up.  The current code would instead try
   send a signal and malfunction.

Change the logic: a signal should be sent if the faulting context is
user mode *and* the access has user privilege.  Otherwise it's
either a kernel mode fault or a failed implicit access, either of
which should end up in no_context().

Note to -stable maintainers: don't backport this unless you backport
CET.  The bug it fixes is unobservable in current kernels unless
something is extremely wrong.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/10e509c43893170e262e82027ea399130ae81159.1542667307.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-11-20 08:44:29 +01:00
arch x86/fault: Improve the condition for signalling vs OOPSing 2018-11-20 08:44:29 +01:00
block for-linus-20181109 2018-11-09 16:31:51 -06:00
certs
crypto KEYS: asym_tpm: Add support for the sign operation [ver #2] 2018-10-26 09:30:47 +01:00
Documentation Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-11 16:41:50 -06:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-11-11 17:09:48 -06:00
firmware
fs for-4.20-rc1-tag 2018-11-11 16:54:38 -06:00
include Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-11 16:41:50 -06:00
init memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-11 16:37:41 -06:00
lib lib/raid6: Fix arm64 test build 2018-11-06 17:12:44 +00:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm memory_hotplug: cond_resched in __remove_pages 2018-11-03 10:09:38 -07:00
net act_mirred: clear skb->tstamp on redirect 2018-11-11 10:21:31 -08:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts builddeb: Fix inclusion of dtbs in debian package 2018-11-11 23:04:53 +09:00
security + Features/Improvements 2018-11-02 10:04:26 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix incorrect clearance of thinkpad_acpi hooks 2018-11-06 16:33:53 +01:00
tools perf/urgent improvements and fixes: 2018-11-06 20:03:11 +01:00
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virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2018-11-10 06:57:34 -06:00
Makefile Linux 4.20-rc2 2018-11-11 17:12:31 -06:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.