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x86/microcode: Change checksum to u32

PATCH Applied Chris Bainbridge 3 participants 3 messages Mar 1, 2016 – Mar 8, 2016

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PATCH v2 1/1 x86/microcode: Change checksum to u32

Checksum should be unsigned 32-bit otherwise the calculation overflow results in undefined behaviour:

[    0.000000] ================================================================================
[    0.000000] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c:105:12
[    0.000000] signed integer overflow:
[    0.000000] -1500151068 + -2125470173 cannot be represented in type 'int'
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.5.0-rc5+ #495
[    0.000000]  0000000000000086 0000000000000086 0000000000000000 ffffffff83203968
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81b30952 ffffffff834c43b8 ffffffff83203998 ffffffff814fe623
[    0.000000]  ffffffff83203980 ffffffff81bcdf2d ffffffff8339a448 ffffffff83203a08
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81b30952>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x6c
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff814fe623>] ? inotify_ioctl+0x43/0x1c0
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81bcdf2d>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x40
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81bce2fd>] handle_overflow+0xbd/0xe0
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81bce32e>] __ubsan_handle_add_overflow+0xe/0x10
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81148e45>] microcode_sanity_check+0x405/0x590
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8549b01b>] get_matching_model_microcode.isra.2.constprop.8+0xa5/0x345
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8548615d>] ? early_idt_handler_common+0x3d/0xae
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81b50962>] ? strlcpy+0x52/0xa0
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81b30ce1>] ? find_cpio_data+0x371/0x510
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8549b461>] load_ucode_intel_bsp+0xa1/0xe5
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8549aea8>] load_ucode_bsp+0xdf/0xf3
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8549aea8>] ? load_ucode_bsp+0xdf/0xf3
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8548671c>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xd1/0xee
[    0.000000] ================================================================================
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c +4 -4
index b96896bcbdaf..99ca2c935777 100644
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int microcode_sanity_check(void *mc, int print_err)
 	unsigned long total_size, data_size, ext_table_size;
 	struct microcode_header_intel *mc_header = mc;
 	struct extended_sigtable *ext_header = NULL;
-	int sum, orig_sum, ext_sigcount = 0, i;
+	u32 sum, orig_sum, ext_sigcount = 0, i;
 	struct extended_signature *ext_sig;
 
 	total_size = get_totalsize(mc_header);
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ int microcode_sanity_check(void *mc, int print_err)
 
 	/* check extended table checksum */
 	if (ext_table_size) {
-		int ext_table_sum = 0;
-		int *ext_tablep = (int *)ext_header;
+		u32 ext_table_sum = 0;
+		u32 *ext_tablep = (u32 *)ext_header;
 
 		i = ext_table_size / DWSIZE;
 		while (i--)
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ int microcode_sanity_check(void *mc, int print_err)
 	orig_sum = 0;
 	i = (MC_HEADER_SIZE + data_size) / DWSIZE;
 	while (i--)
-		orig_sum += ((int *)mc)[i];
+		orig_sum += ((u32 *)mc)[i];
 	if (orig_sum) {
 		if (print_err)
 			pr_err("aborting, bad checksum\n");
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#1 lore raw
Quoted 28 lines · Chris Bainbridge

Checksum should be unsigned 32-bit otherwise the calculation overflow results in undefined behaviour:

[    0.000000] ================================================================================
[    0.000000] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c:105:12
[    0.000000] signed integer overflow:
[    0.000000] -1500151068 + -2125470173 cannot be represented in type 'int'
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.5.0-rc5+ #495
[    0.000000]  0000000000000086 0000000000000086 0000000000000000 ffffffff83203968
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81b30952 ffffffff834c43b8 ffffffff83203998 ffffffff814fe623
[    0.000000]  ffffffff83203980 ffffffff81bcdf2d ffffffff8339a448 ffffffff83203a08
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81b30952>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x6c
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff814fe623>] ? inotify_ioctl+0x43/0x1c0
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81bcdf2d>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x40
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81bce2fd>] handle_overflow+0xbd/0xe0
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81bce32e>] __ubsan_handle_add_overflow+0xe/0x10
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81148e45>] microcode_sanity_check+0x405/0x590
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8549b01b>] get_matching_model_microcode.isra.2.constprop.8+0xa5/0x345
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8548615d>] ? early_idt_handler_common+0x3d/0xae
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81b50962>] ? strlcpy+0x52/0xa0
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81b30ce1>] ? find_cpio_data+0x371/0x510
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8549b461>] load_ucode_intel_bsp+0xa1/0xe5
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8549aea8>] load_ucode_bsp+0xdf/0xf3
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8549aea8>] ? load_ucode_bsp+0xdf/0xf3
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff8548671c>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xd1/0xee
[    0.000000] ================================================================================
Quoted 5 lines
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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    Boris.

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#2 lore raw

[tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode/intel: Change checksum variables to u32

In reply to Chris Bainbridge
x86/microcode/intel: Change checksum variables to u32
Commit-ID:  bc864af13f34d19c911f5691d87bdacc9ce109f5
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/bc864af13f34d19c911f5691d87bdacc9ce109f5
Author:     Chris Bainbridge <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 11:10:00 +0100
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:08:44 +0100

x86/microcode/intel: Change checksum variables to u32

Microcode checksum verification should be done using unsigned 32-bit values otherwise the calculation overflow results in undefined behaviour.

This is also nicely documented in the SDM, section "Microcode Update Checksum":

"To check for a corrupt microcode update, software must perform a unsigned DWORD (32-bit) checksum of the microcode update. Even though some fields are signed, the checksum procedure treats all DWORDs as unsigned. Microcode updates with a header version equal to 00000001H must sum all DWORDs that comprise the microcode update. A valid checksum check will yield a value of 00000000H."

but for some reason the code has been using ints from the very beginning.

In practice, this bug possibly manifested itself only when doing the microcode data checksum - apparently, currently shipped Intel microcode doesn't have an extended signature table for which we do checksum verification too.

  UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c:105:12
  signed integer overflow:
  -1500151068 + -2125470173 cannot be represented in type 'int'
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.5.0-rc5+ #495
  ...
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack
   ? inotify_ioctl
   ubsan_epilogue
   handle_overflow
   __ubsan_handle_add_overflow
   microcode_sanity_check
   get_matching_model_microcode.isra.2.constprop.8
   ? early_idt_handler_common
   ? strlcpy
   ? find_cpio_data
   load_ucode_intel_bsp
   load_ucode_bsp
   ? load_ucode_bsp
   x86_64_start_kernel
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c +4 -4
index b96896b..99ca2c9 100644
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int microcode_sanity_check(void *mc, int print_err)
 	unsigned long total_size, data_size, ext_table_size;
 	struct microcode_header_intel *mc_header = mc;
 	struct extended_sigtable *ext_header = NULL;
-	int sum, orig_sum, ext_sigcount = 0, i;
+	u32 sum, orig_sum, ext_sigcount = 0, i;
 	struct extended_signature *ext_sig;
 
 	total_size = get_totalsize(mc_header);
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ int microcode_sanity_check(void *mc, int print_err)
 
 	/* check extended table checksum */
 	if (ext_table_size) {
-		int ext_table_sum = 0;
-		int *ext_tablep = (int *)ext_header;
+		u32 ext_table_sum = 0;
+		u32 *ext_tablep = (u32 *)ext_header;
 
 		i = ext_table_size / DWSIZE;
 		while (i--)
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ int microcode_sanity_check(void *mc, int print_err)
 	orig_sum = 0;
 	i = (MC_HEADER_SIZE + data_size) / DWSIZE;
 	while (i--)
-		orig_sum += ((int *)mc)[i];
+		orig_sum += ((u32 *)mc)[i];
 	if (orig_sum) {
 		if (print_err)
 			pr_err("aborting, bad checksum\n");