From: Joerg Roedel jroedel@suse.de
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
024f60d6552 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.
Fixes: f980f9c31a92 ("x86/sev-es: Compile early handler code into kernel image") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+ Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel jroedel@suse.de --- arch/x86/kernel/sev.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sev.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sev.c index 1f428f401bed..651b81cd648e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/sev.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sev.c @@ -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: @@ -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;