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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] powerpc/603: Fix protection of user pages mapped with" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-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 <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From c119565a15a628efdfa51352f9f6c5186e506a1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 06:29:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/603: Fix protection of user pages mapped with
PROT_NONE

On book3s/32, page protection is defined by the PP bits in the PTE which provide the following protection depending on the access keys defined in the matching segment register:
- PP 00 means RW with key 0 and N/A with key 1.
- PP 01 means RW with key 0 and RO with key 1.
- PP 10 means RW with both key 0 and key 1.
- PP 11 means RO with both key 0 and key 1.

Since the implementation of kernel userspace access protection, PP bits have been set as follows:
- PP00 for pages without _PAGE_USER
- PP01 for pages with _PAGE_USER and _PAGE_RW
- PP11 for pages with _PAGE_USER and without _PAGE_RW

For kernelspace segments, kernel accesses are performed with key 0 and user accesses are performed with key 1. As PP00 is used for non _PAGE_USER pages, user can't access kernel pages not flagged _PAGE_USER while kernel can.

For userspace segments, both kernel and user accesses are performed with key 0, therefore pages not flagged _PAGE_USER are still accessible to the user.

This shouldn't be an issue, because userspace is expected to be accessible to the user. But unlike most other architectures, powerpc implements PROT_NONE protection by removing _PAGE_USER flag instead of flagging the page as not valid. This means that pages in userspace that are not flagged _PAGE_USER shall remain inaccessible.

To get the expected behaviour, just mimic other architectures in the TLB miss handler by checking _PAGE_USER permission on userspace accesses as if it was the _PAGE_PRESENT bit.

Note that this problem only is only for 603 cores. The 604+ have an hash table, and hash_page() function already implement the verification of _PAGE_USER permission on userspace pages.

arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S +6 -3
index 727fdab557c9..565e84e20a72 100644
@@ -457,11 +457,12 @@ InstructionTLBMiss:
 	cmplw	0,r1,r3
 #endif
 	mfspr	r2, SPRN_SDR1
-	li	r1,_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_EXEC
+	li	r1,_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_EXEC | _PAGE_USER
 	rlwinm	r2, r2, 28, 0xfffff000
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
 	bgt-	112f
 	lis	r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@ha	/* if kernel address, use */
+	li	r1,_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_EXEC
 	addi	r2, r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@l	/* kernel page table */
 #endif
 112:	rlwimi	r2,r3,12,20,29		/* insert top 10 bits of address */
@@ -520,10 +521,11 @@ DataLoadTLBMiss:
 	lis	r1, TASK_SIZE@h		/* check if kernel address */
 	cmplw	0,r1,r3
 	mfspr	r2, SPRN_SDR1
-	li	r1, _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
+	li	r1, _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_USER
 	rlwinm	r2, r2, 28, 0xfffff000
 	bgt-	112f
 	lis	r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@ha	/* if kernel address, use */
+	li	r1, _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
 	addi	r2, r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@l	/* kernel page table */
 112:	rlwimi	r2,r3,12,20,29		/* insert top 10 bits of address */
 	lwz	r2,0(r2)		/* get pmd entry */
@@ -597,10 +599,11 @@ DataStoreTLBMiss:
 	lis	r1, TASK_SIZE@h		/* check if kernel address */
 	cmplw	0,r1,r3
 	mfspr	r2, SPRN_SDR1
-	li	r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
+	li	r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_USER
 	rlwinm	r2, r2, 28, 0xfffff000
 	bgt-	112f
 	lis	r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@ha	/* if kernel address, use */
+	li	r1, _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED
 	addi	r2, r2, (swapper_pg_dir - PAGE_OFFSET)@l	/* kernel page table */
 112:	rlwimi	r2,r3,12,20,29		/* insert top 10 bits of address */
 	lwz	r2,0(r2)		/* get pmd entry */