[PATCH 2/3] powerpc: PCI: Fix lookup of linux, pci-probe-only property

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Sat Aug 15 00:41:07 AEST 2015


When find_and_init_phbs() looks for the probe-only property, it seems
to trust the firmware to be correctly written, and assumes that there
is a parameter to the property.

It is conceivable that the firmware could not be that perfect, and it
could expose this property naked (at least one arm64 platform seems to
exhibit this exact behaviour). The setup code the ends up making
a decision based on whatever the property pointer points to, which
is likely to be junk.

Instead, let's check for the validity of the property, and ignore
it if the firmware couldn't make up its mind.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
index df6a704..6bdc1f9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
@@ -490,14 +490,19 @@ static void __init find_and_init_phbs(void)
 	 */
 	if (of_chosen) {
 		const int *prop;
+		int len;
 
 		prop = of_get_property(of_chosen,
-				"linux,pci-probe-only", NULL);
+				"linux,pci-probe-only", &len);
 		if (prop) {
-			if (*prop)
-				pci_add_flags(PCI_PROBE_ONLY);
-			else
-				pci_clear_flags(PCI_PROBE_ONLY);
+			if (len) {
+				if (be32_to_cpup(prop))
+					pci_add_flags(PCI_PROBE_ONLY);
+				else
+					pci_clear_flags(PCI_PROBE_ONLY);
+			} else {
+				pr_warn("linux,pci-probe-only set without value, ignoring\n");
+			}
 		}
 	}
 }
-- 
2.1.4



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