Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2021-01-13

Re: [PATCH mips-fixes] MIPS: relocatable: fix possible boot hangup with KASLR enabled

From: Nathan Chancellor <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-11 05:22:46
Also in: lkml, stable

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 02:21:05PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
LLVM-built Linux triggered a boot hangup with KASLR enabled.

arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c:get_random_boot() uses linux_banner,
which is a string constant, as a random seed, but accesses it
as an array of unsigned long (in rotate_xor()).
When the address of linux_banner is not aligned to sizeof(long),
such access emits unaligned access exception and hangs the kernel.

Use PTR_ALIGN() to align input address to sizeof(long) and also
align down the input length to prevent possible access-beyond-end.

Fixes: 405bc8fd12f5 ("MIPS: Kernel: Implement KASLR using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.7+
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <redacted>
Apologies for not being familiar enough with the issue to give a review
but I did reproduce the hang that the commit mentions with
malta_kvm_guest_defconfig + CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y +
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y and this patch does resolve it so:

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c b/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c
index 47aeb3350a76..0e365b7c742d 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c
@@ -187,8 +187,14 @@ static int __init relocate_exception_table(long offset)
 static inline __init unsigned long rotate_xor(unsigned long hash,
 					      const void *area, size_t size)
 {
-	size_t i;
-	unsigned long *ptr = (unsigned long *)area;
+	const typeof(hash) *ptr = PTR_ALIGN(area, sizeof(hash));
+	size_t diff, i;
+
+	diff = (void *)ptr - area;
+	if (unlikely(size < diff + sizeof(hash)))
+		return hash;
+
+	size = ALIGN_DOWN(size - diff, sizeof(hash));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < size / sizeof(hash); i++) {
 		/* Rotate by odd number of bits and XOR. */
-- 
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