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    drm/radeon: r6xx/r7xx possible security issue, system ram access · c8c15ff1
    Jerome Glisse authored
    This patch workaround a possible security issue which can allow
    user to abuse drm on r6xx/r7xx hw to access any system ram memory.
    This patch doesn't break userspace, it detect "valid" old use of
    CB_COLOR[0-7]_FRAG & CB_COLOR[0-7]_TILE registers and overwritte
    the address these registers are pointing to with the one of the
    last color buffer. This workaround will work for old mesa &
    xf86-video-ati and any old user which did use similar register
    programming pattern as those (we expect that there is no others
    user of those ioctl except possibly a malicious one). This patch
    add a warning if it detects such usage, warning encourage people
    to update their mesa & xf86-video-ati. New userspace will submit
    proper relocation.
    
    Fix for xf86-video-ati / mesa (this kernel patch is enough to
    prevent abuse, fix for userspace are to set proper cs stream and
    avoid kernel warning) :
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=95d63e408cc88b6934bec84a0b1ef94dfe8bee7b
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=46dc6fd3ed5ef96cda53641a97bc68c3bc104a9f
    
    Abusing this register to perform system ram memory is not easy,
    here is outline on how it could be achieve. First attacker must
    have access to the drm device and be able to submit command stream
    throught cs ioctl. Then attacker must build a proper command stream
    for r6xx/r7xx hw which will abuse the FRAG or TILE buffer to
    overwrite the GPU GART which is in VRAM. To achieve so attacker
    as to setup CB_COLOR[0-7]_FRAG or CB_COLOR[0-7]_TILE to point
    to the GPU GART, then it has to find a way to write predictable
    value into those buffer (with little cleverness i believe this
    can be done but this is an hard task). Once attacker have such
    program it can overwritte GPU GART to program GPU gart to point
    anywhere in system memory. It then can reusse same method as he
    used to reprogram GART to overwritte the system ram through the
    GART mapping. In the process the attacker has to be carefull to
    not overwritte any sensitive area of the GART table, like ring
    or IB gart entry as it will more then likely lead to GPU lockup.
    Bottom line is that i think it's very hard to use this flaw
    to get system ram access but in theory one can achieve so.
    
    Side note: I am not aware of anyone ever using the GPU as an
    attack vector, nevertheless we take great care in the opensource
    driver to try to detect and forbid malicious use of GPU. I don't
    think the closed source driver are as cautious as we are.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
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