[PATCH v2] powerpc: pseries/hvconsole: fix stack overread via udbg

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sat Jun 15 23:35:59 AEST 2019


On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 06:56:57 UTC, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> While developing kasan for 64-bit book3s, I hit the following stack
> over-read.
> 
> It occurs because the hypercall to put characters onto the terminal
> takes 2 longs (128 bits/16 bytes) of characters at a time, and so
> hvc_put_chars would unconditionally copy 16 bytes from the argument
> buffer, regardless of supplied length. However, udbg_hvc_putc can
> call hvc_put_chars with a single-byte buffer, leading to the error.
> 
> [    0.001931] ==================================================================                                                  [150/819]
> [    0.001933] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in hvc_put_chars+0xdc/0x110
> [    0.001934] Read of size 8 at addr c0000000023e7a90 by task swapper/0
> [    0.001934]
> [    0.001935] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.2.0-rc2-next-20190528-02824-g048a6ab4835b #113
> [    0.001935] Call Trace:
> [    0.001936] [c0000000023e7790] [c000000001b4a450] dump_stack+0x104/0x154 (unreliable)
> [    0.001937] [c0000000023e77f0] [c0000000006d3524] print_address_description+0xa0/0x30c
> [    0.001938] [c0000000023e7880] [c0000000006d318c] __kasan_report+0x20c/0x224
> [    0.001939] [c0000000023e7950] [c0000000006d19d8] kasan_report+0x18/0x30
> [    0.001940] [c0000000023e7970] [c0000000006d4854] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x24/0x40
> [    0.001941] [c0000000023e7990] [c0000000001511ac] hvc_put_chars+0xdc/0x110
> [    0.001942] [c0000000023e7a10] [c000000000f81cfc] hvterm_raw_put_chars+0x9c/0x110
> [    0.001943] [c0000000023e7a50] [c000000000f82634] udbg_hvc_putc+0x154/0x200
> [    0.001944] [c0000000023e7b10] [c000000000049c90] udbg_write+0xf0/0x240
> [    0.001945] [c0000000023e7b70] [c0000000002e5d88] console_unlock+0x868/0xd30
> [    0.001946] [c0000000023e7ca0] [c0000000002e6e00] register_console+0x970/0xe90
> [    0.001947] [c0000000023e7d80] [c000000001ff1928] register_early_udbg_console+0xf8/0x114
> [    0.001948] [c0000000023e7df0] [c000000001ff1174] setup_arch+0x108/0x790
> [    0.001948] [c0000000023e7e90] [c000000001fe41c8] start_kernel+0x104/0x784
> [    0.001949] [c0000000023e7f90] [c00000000000b368] start_here_common+0x1c/0x534
> [    0.001950]
> [    0.001950]
> [    0.001951] Memory state around the buggy address:
> [    0.001952]  c0000000023e7980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [    0.001952]  c0000000023e7a00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1
> [    0.001953] >c0000000023e7a80: f1 f1 01 f2 f2 f2 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [    0.001953]                          ^
> [    0.001954]  c0000000023e7b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [    0.001954]  c0000000023e7b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [    0.001955] ==================================================================
> 
> Document that a 16-byte buffer is requred, and provide it in udbg.
> 
> CC: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/934bda59f286d0221f1a3ebab7f5156a

cheers


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