From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/19] powerpc/perf: callchain validate kernel stack pointer bounds
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 08:10:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221104131028.GN25951@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221031055440.3594315-2-npiggin@gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 03:54:22PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Could the user set r1 to be equal to the address matching the first
> interrupt frame - STACK_INT_FRAME_SIZE, which is in the previous page
> due to the kernel redzone, and induce the kernel to load the marker from
> there? Possibly it could cause a crash at least.
Yes, the user can set r1 to anything, it is just a general purpose
register. This isn't a valid thing to do of course, the ABI requires
r1 to point at a valid stack at all times, but it is an obvious attack
point if we do not harden against this :-)
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-04 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-31 5:54 [RFC PATCH 00/19] Remove STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 01/19] powerpc/perf: callchain validate kernel stack pointer bounds Nicholas Piggin
2022-11-04 13:10 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 02/19] powerpc: Rearrange copy_thread child stack creation Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 03/19] powerpc/64: Remove asm interrupt tracing call helpers Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 04/19] powerpc/pseries: hvcall stack frame overhead Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 05/19] powerpc/32: Use load and store multiple in GPR save/restore macros Nicholas Piggin
2022-11-03 8:26 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-11-07 12:45 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-11-07 12:51 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 06/19] powerpc: simplify ppc_save_regs Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 07/19] powerpc: add definition for pt_regs offset within an interrupt frame Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 08/19] powerpc: add a definition for the marker offset within the " Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 09/19] powerpc: Rename STACK_FRAME_MARKER and derive it from frame offset Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 10/19] powerpc: add a define for the user interrupt frame size Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 11/19] powerpc: add a define for the switch frame size and regs offset Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 12/19] powerpc: copy_thread fill in interrupt frame marker and back chain Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 13/19] powerpc: copy_thread add a back chain to the switch stack frame Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 14/19] powerpc: split validate_sp into two functions Nicholas Piggin
2022-11-07 0:58 ` Russell Currey
2022-11-07 12:29 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 15/19] powerpc: allow minimum sized kernel stack frames Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 16/19] powerpc/64: ELFv2 use minimal stack frames in int and switch frame sizes Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 17/19] powerpc: remove STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 18/19] powerpc: change stack marker memory operations to 32-bit Nicholas Piggin
2022-10-31 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH 19/19] powerpc/64: ELFv2 use reserved word in the stack frame for the regs marker Nicholas Piggin
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