Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 3 authors, 2021-09-20

Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery

From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Date: 2021-08-21 04:51:57
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Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 1:25 PM Luck, Tony [off-list ref] wrote:
Probably the same for the two different addresses case ... though I'm
not 100% confident about that. There could be some ioctl() that peeks
at two parts of a passed in structure, and the user might pass in a
structure that spans across a page boundary with both pages poisoned.
But that would only hit if the driver code ignored the failure of the
first get_user() and blindly tried the second. So I'd count that as a
critically bad driver bug.
Or maybe driver writers are just evil :-(

for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
       tx_wait(10);
       get_user(dsp56k_host_interface.data.b[1], bin++);
       get_user(dsp56k_host_interface.data.b[2], bin++);
       get_user(dsp56k_host_interface.data.b[3], bin++);
}

-Tony
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