[PATCH] powerpc/highmem: Properly handle fragmented memory

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Wed Sep 21 03:36:42 AEST 2022


In addition to checking whether a page is reserved before allocating
it to highmem, verify that it is valid memory.

Otherwise the kernel Oopses as below:

[    0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[    0.000000] Kernel attempted to read user page (7df58) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
[    0.000000] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0x0007df58
[    0.000000] Faulting instruction address: 0xc01c8348
[    0.000000] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[    0.000000] BE PAGE_SIZE=4K SMP NR_CPUS=2 P2020RDB-PC
[    0.000000] Modules linked in:
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-0caacb197b677410bdac81bc34f05235+ #121
[    0.000000] NIP:  c01c8348 LR: c01cb2bc CTR: 0000000a
[    0.000000] REGS: c10d7e20 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (6.0.0-rc2-0caacb197b677410bdac81bc34f05235+)
[    0.000000] MSR:  00021000 <CE,ME>  CR: 48044224  XER: 00000000
[    0.000000] DEAR: 0007df58 ESR: 00000000
[    0.000000] GPR00: c01cb294 c10d7f10 c1045340 00000001 00000004 c112bcc0 00000015 eedf1000
[    0.000000] GPR08: 00000003 0007df58 00000000 f0000000 28044228 00000200 00000000 00000000
[    0.000000] GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 0275cb7a c0000000 00000001 0000075f 00000000
[    0.000000] GPR24: c1031004 00000000 00000000 00000001 c10f0000 eedf1000 00080000 00080000
[    0.000000] NIP [c01c8348] free_unref_page_prepare.part.93+0x48/0x60
[    0.000000] LR [c01cb2bc] free_unref_page+0x84/0x4b8
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000] [c10d7f10] [eedf1000] 0xeedf1000 (unreliable)
[    0.000000] [c10d7f20] [c01cb294] free_unref_page+0x5c/0x4b8
[    0.000000] [c10d7f70] [c1007644] mem_init+0xd0/0x194
[    0.000000] [c10d7fa0] [c1000e4c] start_kernel+0x4c0/0x6d0
[    0.000000] [c10d7ff0] [c00003e0] set_ivor+0x13c/0x178
[    0.000000] Instruction dump:
[    0.000000] 552817be 5509103a 7d294214 55293830 7d4a4a14 812a003c 814a0038 5529002a
[    0.000000] 7c892050 5484c23a 5489eafa 548406fe <7d2a482e> 7d242430 5484077e 90870010
[    0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Reported-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 01772e79fd93..6ddbd6cb3a2a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 		for (pfn = highmem_mapnr; pfn < max_mapnr; ++pfn) {
 			phys_addr_t paddr = (phys_addr_t)pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
 			struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
-			if (!memblock_is_reserved(paddr))
+			if (memblock_is_memory(paddr) && !memblock_is_reserved(paddr))
 				free_highmem_page(page);
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.37.1



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