[RFC PATCH] powerpc/64/module: REL32 relocation range check

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 21:56:56 AEST 2018


The recent module relocation overflow crash demonstrated that we
have no range checking on REL32 relative relocations. This patch
implements a basic check, the same kernel that previously oopsed
and rebooted now continues with some of these errors when loading
the module:

    module_64: x_tables: REL32 527703503449812 out of range!

Question is whether other relocations (ADDR32, REL16, TOC16, etc.)
should also have overflow checks.
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index a2636c250b7b..2a2fb656d23b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -678,7 +678,14 @@ int apply_relocate_add(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
 
 		case R_PPC64_REL32:
 			/* 32 bits relative (used by relative exception tables) */
-			*(u32 *)location = value - (unsigned long)location;
+			/* Convert value to relative */
+			value -= (unsigned long)location;
+			if (value + 0x80000000 > 0xffffffff) {
+				pr_err("%s: REL32 %li out of range!\n",
+				       me->name, (long int)value);
+				return -ENOEXEC;
+			}
+			*(u32 *)location = value;
 			break;
 
 		case R_PPC64_TOCSAVE:
-- 
2.18.0



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