Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] arm64: Improve kernel address detection of __is_lm_address()

Hi Mark,

On 1/25/21 1:02 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:

Hi Vincenzo,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 03:56:40PM +0000, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:

quoted

Currently, the __is_lm_address() check just masks out the top 12 bits
of the address, but if they are 0, it still yields a true result.
This has as a side effect that virt_addr_valid() returns true even for
invalid virtual addresses (e.g. 0x0).

Improve the detection checking that it's actually a kernel address
starting at PAGE_OFFSET.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>

Looking around, it seems that there are some existing uses of
virt_addr_valid() that expect it to reject addresses outside of the
TTBR1 range. For example, check_mem_type() in drivers/tee/optee/call.c.

Given that, I think we need something that's easy to backport to stable.

I agree, I started looking at it this morning and I found cases even in the main
allocators (slub and page_alloc) either then the one you mentioned.

This patch itself looks fine, but it's not going to backport very far,
so I suspect we might need to write a preparatory patch that adds an
explicit range check to virt_addr_valid() which can be trivially
backported.

I checked the old releases and I agree this is not back-portable as it stands.
I propose therefore to add a preparatory patch with the check below:

#define __is_ttrb1_address(addr)	((u64)(addr) >= PAGE_OFFSET && \
					(u64)(addr) < PAGE_END)

If it works for you I am happy to take care of it and post a new version of my
patches.

Thanks!

For this patch:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Thanks,
Mark.

quoted

---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
index 18fce223b67b..99d7e1494aaa 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h

@@ -247,9 +247,11 @@ static inline const void *__tag_set(const void *addr, u8 tag)
 
 
 /*
- * The linear kernel range starts at the bottom of the virtual address space.
+ * Check whether an arbitrary address is within the linear map, which
+ * lives in the [PAGE_OFFSET, PAGE_END) interval at the bottom of the
+ * kernel's TTBR1 address range.
  */
-#define __is_lm_address(addr)	(((u64)(addr) & ~PAGE_OFFSET) < (PAGE_END - PAGE_OFFSET))
+#define __is_lm_address(addr)	(((u64)(addr) ^ PAGE_OFFSET) < (PAGE_END - PAGE_OFFSET))
 
 #define __lm_to_phys(addr)	(((addr) & ~PAGE_OFFSET) + PHYS_OFFSET)
 #define __kimg_to_phys(addr)	((addr) - kimage_voffset)

-- 
2.30.0

-- 
Regards,
Vincenzo

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