[PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() check

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Mon Jan 10 19:01:38 AEDT 2022



Le 25/12/2021 à 13:06, Kefeng Wang a écrit :
> When run ethtool eth0, the BUG occurred,
> 
>    usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object not in SLUB page?! (offset 0, size 1048)!
>    kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:99
>    ...
>    usercopy_abort+0x64/0xa0 (unreliable)
>    __check_heap_object+0x168/0x190
>    __check_object_size+0x1a0/0x200
>    dev_ethtool+0x2494/0x2b20
>    dev_ioctl+0x5d0/0x770
>    sock_do_ioctl+0xf0/0x1d0
>    sock_ioctl+0x3ec/0x5a0
>    __se_sys_ioctl+0xf0/0x160
>    system_call_exception+0xfc/0x1f0
>    system_call_common+0xf8/0x200
> 
> The code shows below,
> 
>    data = vzalloc(array_size(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN));
>    copy_to_user(useraddr, data, gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN))
> 
> The data is alloced by vmalloc(), virt_addr_valid(ptr) will return true
> on PowerPC64, which leads to the panic.
> 
> As commit 4dd7554a6456 ("powerpc/64: Add VIRTUAL_BUG_ON checks for __va
> and __pa addresses") does, make sure the virt addr above PAGE_OFFSET in
> the virt_addr_valid().

The change done by that commit only applies to PPC64.

The change you are doing applies to both PPC64 and PPC32. Did you verify 
the impact (or should I say the absence of impact) on PPC32 ?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
> index 254687258f42..300d4c105a3a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
> @@ -132,7 +132,10 @@ static inline bool pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
>   #define virt_to_page(kaddr)	pfn_to_page(virt_to_pfn(kaddr))
>   #define pfn_to_kaddr(pfn)	__va((pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT)
>   
> -#define virt_addr_valid(kaddr)	pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(kaddr))
> +#define virt_addr_valid(vaddr)	({						\
> +	unsigned long _addr = (unsigned long)vaddr;				\
> +	(unsigned long)(_addr) >= PAGE_OFFSET && pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(_addr));	\

_addr is already an 'unsigned long' so you shouldnt need to cast it.

> +})
>   
>   /*
>    * On Book-E parts we need __va to parse the device tree and we can't


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