Vulnerability CVE-2023-52499

Vulnerability CVE-2023-52499

Published: 2024-03-02

Description:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/47x: Fix 47x syscall return crash

Eddie reported that newer kernels were crashing during boot on his 476
FSP2 system:

kernel tried to execute user page (b7ee2000) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch
Faulting instruction address: 0xb7ee2000
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
BE PAGE_SIZE=4K FSP-2
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 61 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.1.55-d23900f.ppcnf-fsp2 #1
Hardware name: ibm,fsp2 476fpe 0x7ff520c0 FSP-2
NIP: b7ee2000 LR: 8c008000 CTR: 00000000
REGS: bffebd83 TRAP: 0400 Not tainted (6.1.55-d23900f.ppcnf-fs p2)
MSR: 00000030 <IR,DR> CR: 00001000 XER: 20000000
GPR00: c00110ac bffebe63 bffebe7e bffebe88 8c008000 00001000 00000d12 b7ee2000
GPR08: 00000033 00000000 00000000 c139df10 48224824 1016c314 10160000 00000000
GPR16: 10160000 10160000 00000008 00000000 10160000 00000000 10160000 1017f5b0
GPR24: 1017fa50 1017f4f0 1017fa50 1017f740 1017f630 00000000 00000000 1017f4f0
NIP [b7ee2000] 0xb7ee2000
LR [8c008000] 0x8c008000
Call Trace:
Instruction dump:
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The problem is in ret_from_syscall where the check for
icache_44x_need_flush is done. When the flush is needed the code jumps
out-of-line to do the flush, and then intends to jump back to continue
the syscall return.

However the branch back to label 1b doesn't return to the correct
location, instead branching back just prior to the return to userspace,
causing bogus register values to be used by the rfi.

The breakage was introduced by commit 6f76a01173cc
("powerpc/syscall: implement system call entry/exit logic in C for PPC32") which
inadvertently removed the "1" label and reused it elsewhere.

Fix it by adding named local labels in the correct locations. Note that
the return label needs to be outside the ifdef so that CONFIG_PPC_47x=n
compiles.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29017ab1a539101d9c7bec63cc13a019f97b2820

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ac2689502f986a46f4221e239d4ff2897f1ccb3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70f6756ad96dd70177dddcfac2fe4bd4bb320746

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0eee815babed70a749d2496a7678be5b45b4c14

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