x86/iopl: Fake iopl(3) CLI/STI usage

Since commit c8137ace5638 ("x86/iopl: Restrict iopl() permission
scope") it's possible to emulate iopl(3) using ioperm(), except for
the CLI/STI usage.

Userspace CLI/STI usage is very dubious (read broken), since any
exception taken during that window can lead to rescheduling anyway (or
worse). The IOPL(2) manpage even states that usage of CLI/STI is highly
discouraged and might even crash the system.

Of course, that won't stop people and HP has the dubious honour of
being the first vendor to be found using this in their hp-health
package.

In order to enable this 'software' to still 'work', have the #GP treat
the CLI/STI instructions as NOPs when iopl(3). Warn the user that
their program is doing dubious things.

Fixes: a24ca9976843 ("x86/iopl: Remove legacy IOPL option")
Reported-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # v5.5+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210918090641.GD5106@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index a58800973aed..f3f3034b06f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -528,6 +528,36 @@ static enum kernel_gp_hint get_kernel_gp_address(struct pt_regs *regs,
 
 #define GPFSTR "general protection fault"
 
+static bool fixup_iopl_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	struct thread_struct *t = &current->thread;
+	unsigned char byte;
+	unsigned long ip;
+
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_IOPL_IOPERM) || t->iopl_emul != 3)
+		return false;
+
+	if (insn_get_effective_ip(regs, &ip))
+		return false;
+
+	if (get_user(byte, (const char __user *)ip))
+		return false;
+
+	if (byte != 0xfa && byte != 0xfb)
+		return false;
+
+	if (!t->iopl_warn && printk_ratelimit()) {
+		pr_err("%s[%d] attempts to use CLI/STI, pretending it's a NOP, ip:%lx",
+		       current->comm, task_pid_nr(current), ip);
+		print_vma_addr(KERN_CONT " in ", ip);
+		pr_cont("\n");
+		t->iopl_warn = 1;
+	}
+
+	regs->ip += 1;
+	return true;
+}
+
 DEFINE_IDTENTRY_ERRORCODE(exc_general_protection)
 {
 	char desc[sizeof(GPFSTR) + 50 + 2*sizeof(unsigned long) + 1] = GPFSTR;
@@ -553,6 +583,9 @@ DEFINE_IDTENTRY_ERRORCODE(exc_general_protection)
 	tsk = current;
 
 	if (user_mode(regs)) {
+		if (fixup_iopl_exception(regs))
+			goto exit;
+
 		tsk->thread.error_code = error_code;
 		tsk->thread.trap_nr = X86_TRAP_GP;