With commit 2865d08dd9ea ("powerpc/mm: Move the DSISR_PROTFAULT sanity check") we moved the protection fault access check before vma lookup. That means we hit that WARN_ON when user space access a kernel address. Before the commit this was handled by find_vma() not finding vma for the kernel address and considering that access as bad area access.
Avoid the confusing WARN_ON and convert that to a ratelimited printk. With the patch we now get for load: [ 187.700294] a.out[5997]: User access of kernel address (c00000000000dea0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 1000) [ 187.700344] a.out[5997]: segfault (11) at c00000000000dea0 nip 1317c0798 lr 7fff80d6441c code 1 in a.out[1317c0000+10000] [ 187.700429] a.out[5997]: code: 60000000 60420000 3c4c0002 38427790 4bffff20 3c4c0002 38427784 fbe1fff8 [ 187.700435] a.out[5997]: code: f821ffc1 7c3f0b78 60000000 e9228030 <89290000> 993f002f 60000000 383f0040 for exec: [ 225.100903] a.out[6067]: User access of kernel address (c00000000000dea0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 1000) [ 225.100938] a.out[6067]: segfault (11) at c00000000000dea0 nip c00000000000dea0 lr 129d507b0 code 1 [ 225.100943] a.out[6067]: Bad NIP, not dumping instructions. Fixes: 2865d08dd9ea ("powerpc/mm: Move the DSISR_PROTFAULT sanity check") Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c index 1697e903bbf2..46f280068c45 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c @@ -342,8 +342,21 @@ static inline void cmo_account_page_fault(void) { } #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_SMLPAR */ #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU -static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, unsigned long error_code) +static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, bool is_user, + unsigned long error_code, unsigned long address) { + /* + * userspace trying to access kernel address, we get PROTFAULT for that. + */ + if (is_user && address >= TASK_SIZE) { + printk_ratelimited(KERN_CRIT "%s[%d]: " + "User access of kernel address (%lx) - " + "exploit attempt? (uid: %d)\n", + current->comm, current->pid, address, + from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid())); + return; + } + /* * For hash translation mode, we should never get a * PROTFAULT. Any update to pte to reduce access will result in us @@ -373,11 +386,17 @@ static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, unsigned long error_code) * For radix, we can get prot fault for autonuma case, because radix * page table will have them marked noaccess for user. */ - if (!radix_enabled() && !is_write) - WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & DSISR_PROTFAULT); + if (radix_enabled() || is_write) + return; + + WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & DSISR_PROTFAULT); } #else -static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, unsigned long error_code) { } +static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, bool is_user, + unsigned long error_code, unsigned long address) +{ + +} #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU */ /* @@ -435,7 +454,7 @@ static int __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, } /* Additional sanity check(s) */ - sanity_check_fault(is_write, error_code); + sanity_check_fault(is_write, is_user, error_code, address); /* * The kernel should never take an execute fault nor should it -- 2.19.1