Bug 1225459 (CVE-2023-52761)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-52761: kernel: riscv: VMAP_STACK overflow detection thread-safe
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Kernel Bugs <kernel-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: thomas.leroy
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/407213/
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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-05-28 09:59:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: VMAP_STACK overflow detection thread-safe

commit 31da94c25aea ("riscv: add VMAP_STACK overflow detection") added
support for CONFIG_VMAP_STACK. If overflow is detected, CPU switches to
`shadow_stack` temporarily before switching finally to per-cpu
`overflow_stack`.

If two CPUs/harts are racing and end up in over flowing kernel stack, one
or both will end up corrupting each other state because `shadow_stack` is
not per-cpu. This patch optimizes per-cpu overflow stack switch by
directly picking per-cpu `overflow_stack` and gets rid of `shadow_stack`.

Following are the changes in this patch

 - Defines an asm macro to obtain per-cpu symbols in destination
   register.
 - In entry.S, when overflow is detected, per-cpu overflow stack is
   located using per-cpu asm macro. Computing per-cpu symbol requires
   a temporary register. x31 is saved away into CSR_SCRATCH
   (CSR_SCRATCH is anyways zero since we're in kernel).

Please see Links for additional relevant disccussion and alternative
solution.

Tested by `echo EXHAUST_STACK > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT`
Kernel crash log below

 Insufficient stack space to handle exception!/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
 Task stack:     [0xff20000010a98000..0xff20000010a9c000]
 Overflow stack: [0xff600001f7d98370..0xff600001f7d99370]
 CPU: 1 PID: 205 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-00001-g328a1f96f7b9 #34
 Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
 epc : __memset+0x60/0xfc
  ra : recursive_loop+0x48/0xc6 [lkdtm]
 epc : ffffffff808de0e4 ra : ffffffff0163a752 sp : ff20000010a97e80
  gp : ffffffff815c0330 tp : ff600000820ea280 t0 : ff20000010a97e88
  t1 : 000000000000002e t2 : 3233206874706564 s0 : ff20000010a982b0
  s1 : 0000000000000012 a0 : ff20000010a97e88 a1 : 0000000000000000
  a2 : 0000000000000400 a3 : ff20000010a98288 a4 : 0000000000000000
  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : fffffffffffe43f0 a7 : 00007fffffffffff
  s2 : ff20000010a97e88 s3 : ffffffff01644680 s4 : ff20000010a9be90
  s5 : ff600000842ba6c0 s6 : 00aaaaaac29e42b0 s7 : 00fffffff0aa3684
  s8 : 00aaaaaac2978040 s9 : 0000000000000065 s10: 00ffffff8a7cad10
  s11: 00ffffff8a76a4e0 t3 : ffffffff815dbaf4 t4 : ffffffff815dbaf4
  t5 : ffffffff815dbab8 t6 : ff20000010a9bb48
 status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: ff20000010a97e88 cause: 000000000000000f
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel stack overflow
 CPU: 1 PID: 205 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-00001-g328a1f96f7b9 #34
 Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
 Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff80006754>] dump_backtrace+0x30/0x38
 [<ffffffff808de798>] show_stack+0x40/0x4c
 [<ffffffff808ea2a8>] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c
 [<ffffffff808ea2d8>] dump_stack+0x18/0x20
 [<ffffffff808dec06>] panic+0x126/0x2fe
 [<ffffffff800065ea>] walk_stackframe+0x0/0xf0
 [<ffffffff0163a752>] recursive_loop+0x48/0xc6 [lkdtm]
 SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
 ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel stack overflow ]---

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-52761
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2023/CVE-2023-52761.mbox
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1493baaf09e3c1899959c8a107cd1207e16d1788
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eff53aea3855f71992c043cebb1c00988c17ee20
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be97d0db5f44c0674480cb79ac6f5b0529b84c76
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52761
Comment 1 Thomas Leroy 2024-05-28 10:00:02 UTC
riscv unsupported, closing