Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: Disable running 32bit processes if ia32_disabled is passed

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, Jun 08 2023 at 08:16, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 08. 06. 23, 2:25, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> I really wish that we could disable syscall32 reliably on AMD and make
>> it raise #UD as it does on Intal.
>
> Sorry, I am likely missing something, but why is not #GP enough when we 
> set CSTAR = 0?

Because you are not getting a #GP.

It will try to execute from virtual address 0 in CPL 0 and with RSP
still pointing to the user space stack. So you have several
possibilities:

1) 0 is mapped in user space and SMEP/SMAP is off.

   Attacker won

2) 0 is not mapped or SMEP is on.

   You get #PF from CPL0 and RSP is still pointing to the user space
   stack. If SMAP is on this results in #DF

   If SMAP is off, kernel uses an attacker controlled stack...

Similar sillies when you set it to a valid kernel address which is not
mapped or lacks X or contains invalid opcode ....

So no. CSTAR _must_ be a valid kernel text address which handles the
32bit syscall. Right now all it does is SYSRETL when IA32_EMULATION is
disabled.

So the only way to handle that is to have proper entry code which
switches to kernel context and then runs "syscall32_kill_myself()" which
kills the process hard and it exits without the chance to attempt a
return to user.

Anything else wont work.

Bah. Was it really necessary to bring this up so I hade to page in the
gory details of this hardware insanity again?

Thanks,

        tglx