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x86/smep: Be more informative when signalling an SMEP fault 

If pagefault triggers due to SMEP triggering, it can't be really easily
distinguished from any other oops-causing pagefault, which might lead to quite
some confusion when trying to understand the reason for the oops.

Print an explanatory message in case the fault happened during instruction
fetch for _PAGE_USER page which is present and executable on SMEP-enabled CPUs.

This is consistent with what we are doing for NX already; in addition to
immediately seeing from the oops what might be happening, it can even easily
give a good indication to sysadmins who are carefully monitoring their kernel
logs that someone might be trying to pwn them.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1406102248490.1321@pobox.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Jiri Kosina 2014-06-10 22:49:31 +02:00 committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent ed81e780a7
commit eff50c347f
1 changed files with 6 additions and 0 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/fault.c
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@ -575,6 +575,8 @@ static int is_f00f_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address)
static const char nx_warning[] = KERN_CRIT
"kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: %d)\n";
static const char smep_warning[] = KERN_CRIT
"unable to execute userspace code (SMEP?) (uid: %d)\n";
static void
show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
@ -595,6 +597,10 @@ show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
if (pte && pte_present(*pte) && !pte_exec(*pte))
printk(nx_warning, from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
if (pte && pte_present(*pte) && pte_exec(*pte) &&
(pgd_flags(*pgd) & _PAGE_USER) &&
(read_cr4() & X86_CR4_SMEP))
printk(smep_warning, from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
}
printk(KERN_ALERT "BUG: unable to handle kernel ");