x86/speculation: Apply IBPB more strictly to avoid cross-process data leak
commit dbfe2953f63c640463c630746cd5d9de8b2f63ae upstream.
Currently, IBPB is only issued in cases when switching into a non-dumpable
process, the rationale being to protect such 'important and security
sensitive' processess (such as GPG) from data leaking into a different
userspace process via spectre v2.
This is however completely insufficient to provide proper userspace-to-userpace
spectrev2 protection, as any process can poison branch buffers before being
scheduled out, and the newly scheduled process immediately becomes spectrev2
victim.
In order to minimize the performance impact (for usecases that do require
spectrev2 protection), issue the barrier only in cases when switching between
processess where the victim can't be ptraced by the potential attacker (as in
such cases, the attacker doesn't have to bother with branch buffers at all).
[ tglx: Split up PTRACE_MODE_NOACCESS_CHK into PTRACE_MODE_SCHED and
PTRACE_MODE_IBPB to be able to do ptrace() context tracking reasonably
fine-grained ]
Fixes: 18bf3c3ea8 ("x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch")
Originally-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "WoodhouseDavid" <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "SchauflerCasey" <casey.schaufler@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YFH.7.76.1809251437340.15880@cbobk.fhfr.pm
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index f39a7be9..efba851 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@
static int ptrace_has_cap(struct user_namespace *ns, unsigned int mode)
{
+ if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_SCHED)
+ return false;
+
if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT)
return has_ns_capability_noaudit(current, ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE);
else
@@ -325,9 +328,16 @@
!ptrace_has_cap(mm->user_ns, mode)))
return -EPERM;
+ if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_SCHED)
+ return 0;
return security_ptrace_access_check(task, mode);
}
+bool ptrace_may_access_sched(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
+{
+ return __ptrace_may_access(task, mode | PTRACE_MODE_SCHED);
+}
+
bool ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
{
int err;