Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] powerpc/mm/radix: Make Radix require HUGETLB_PAGE" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree
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Date:   Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:24:54 +0200
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The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 8adddf349fda0d3de2f6bb41ddf838cbf36a8ad2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 23:59:02 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mm/radix: Make Radix require HUGETLB_PAGE

Joel reported weird crashes using skiroot_defconfig, in his case we
jumped into an NX page:

  kernel tried to execute exec-protected page (c000000002bff4f0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
  BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000002bff4f0

Looking at the disassembly, we had simply branched to that address:

  c000000000c001bc  49fff335    bl     c000000002bff4f0

But that didn't match the original kernel image:

  c000000000c001bc  4bfff335    bl     c000000000bff4f0 <kobject_get+0x8>

When STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is enabled, and we're using the radix MMU, we
call radix__change_memory_range() late in boot to change page
protections. We do that both to mark rodata read only and also to mark
init text no-execute. That involves walking the kernel page tables,
and clearing _PAGE_WRITE or _PAGE_EXEC respectively.

With radix we may use hugepages for the linear mapping, so the code in
radix__change_memory_range() uses eg. pmd_huge() to test if it has
found a huge mapping, and if so it stops the page table walk and
changes the PMD permissions.

However if the kernel is built without HUGETLBFS support, pmd_huge()
is just a #define that always returns 0. That causes the code in
radix__change_memory_range() to incorrectly interpret the PMD value as
a pointer to a PTE page rather than as a PTE at the PMD level.

We can see this using `dv` in xmon which also uses pmd_huge():

  0:mon> dv c000000000000000
  pgd  @ 0xc000000001740000
  pgdp @ 0xc000000001740000 = 0x80000000ffffb009
  pudp @ 0xc0000000ffffb000 = 0x80000000ffffa009
  pmdp @ 0xc0000000ffffa000 = 0xc00000000000018f   <- this is a PTE
  ptep @ 0xc000000000000100 = 0xa64bb17da64ab07d   <- kernel text

The end result is we treat the value at 0xc000000000000100 as a PTE
and clear _PAGE_WRITE or _PAGE_EXEC, potentially corrupting the code
at that address.

In Joel's specific case we cleared the sign bit in the offset of the
branch, causing a backward branch to turn into a forward branch which
caused us to branch into a non-executable page. However the exact
nature of the crash depends on kernel version, compiler version, and
other factors.

We need to fix radix__change_memory_range() to not use accessors that
depend on HUGETLBFS, but we also have radix memory hotplug code that
uses pmd_huge() etc that will also need fixing. So for now just
disallow the broken combination of Radix with HUGETLBFS disabled.

The only defconfig we have that is affected is skiroot_defconfig, so
turn on HUGETLBFS there so that it still gets Radix.

Fixes: 566ca99af026 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Add dummy radix_enabled()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7+
Reported-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
index 5ba131c30f6b..1bcd468ab422 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
 CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
 CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
 CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
+CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y
 # CONFIG_MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not set
 # CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS is not set
 CONFIG_NLS=y
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index 842b2c7e156a..50cd09b4e05d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
 
 config PPC_RADIX_MMU
 	bool "Radix MMU Support"
-	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
+	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE
 	select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE if (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA
 	default y
 	help