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x86/mm: Disallow vsyscall page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault()

When trying to use copy_from_kernel_nofault() to read vsyscall page
through a bpf program, the following oops was reported:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffff600000
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 3231067 P4D 3231067 PUD 3233067 PMD 3235067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 20390 Comm: test_progs ...... 6.7.0+ #58
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ......
RIP: 0010:copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x6f/0x110
......
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x6f/0x110
bpf_probe_read_kernel+0x1d/0x50
bpf_prog_2061065e56845f08_do_probe_read+0x51/0x8d
trace_call_bpf+0xc5/0x1c0
perf_call_bpf_enter.isra.0+0x69/0xb0
perf_syscall_enter+0x13e/0x200
syscall_trace_enter+0x188/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0xb5/0xe0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
</TASK>
......
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The oops is triggered when:

1) A bpf program uses bpf_probe_read_kernel() to read from the vsyscall
page and invokes copy_from_kernel_nofault() which in turn calls
__get_user_asm().

2) Because the vsyscall page address is not readable from kernel space,
a page fault exception is triggered accordingly.

3) handle_page_fault() considers the vsyscall page address as a user
space address instead of a kernel space address. This results in the
fix-up setup by bpf not being applied and a page_fault_oops() is invoked
due to SMAP.

Considering handle_page_fault() has already considered the vsyscall page
address as a userspace address, fix the problem by disallowing vsyscall
page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault().

Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: syzbot+72aa0161922eba61b50e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAG48ez06TZft=ATH1qh2c5mpS5BT8UakwNkzi6nvK5_djC-4Nw@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: xingwei lee <xrivendell7@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CABOYnLynjBoFZOf3Z4BhaZkc5hx_kHfsjiW+UWLoB=w33LvScw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202103935.3154011-3-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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Hou Tao and committed by
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arch/x86/mm/maccess.c
··· 3 3 #include <linux/uaccess.h> 4 4 #include <linux/kernel.h> 5 5 6 + #include <asm/vsyscall.h> 7 + 6 8 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 7 9 bool copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed(const void *unsafe_src, size_t size) 8 10 { ··· 15 13 * normal userspace and the userspace guard page: 16 14 */ 17 15 if (vaddr < TASK_SIZE_MAX + PAGE_SIZE) 16 + return false; 17 + 18 + /* 19 + * Reading from the vsyscall page may cause an unhandled fault in 20 + * certain cases. Though it is at an address above TASK_SIZE_MAX, it is 21 + * usually considered as a user space address. 22 + */ 23 + if (is_vsyscall_vaddr(vaddr)) 18 24 return false; 19 25 20 26 /*