Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 3 authors, 2020-04-03

Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] powerpc/pseries/ras: FWNMI_VALID off by one

From: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2020-03-27 03:55:53

On 2020-03-25 20:34:03 Wed, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
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This was discovered developing qemu fwnmi sreset support. This
off-by-one bug means the last 16 bytes of the rtas area can not
be used for a 16 byte save area.

It's not a serious bug, and QEMU implementation has to retain a
workaround for old kernels, but it's good to tighten it.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
index c74d5e740922..9a37bda47468 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
@@ -395,10 +395,11 @@ static irqreturn_t ras_error_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
 /*
  * Some versions of FWNMI place the buffer inside the 4kB page starting at
  * 0x7000. Other versions place it inside the rtas buffer. We check both.
+ * Minimum size of the buffer is 16 bytes.
Acked-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>

Thanks,
-Mahesh.
  */
 #define VALID_FWNMI_BUFFER(A) \
-	((((A) >= 0x7000) && ((A) < 0x7ff0)) || \
-	(((A) >= rtas.base) && ((A) < (rtas.base + rtas.size - 16))))
+	((((A) >= 0x7000) && ((A) <= 0x8000 - 16)) || \
+	(((A) >= rtas.base) && ((A) <= (rtas.base + rtas.size - 16))))

 static inline struct rtas_error_log *fwnmi_get_errlog(void)
 {
-- 
2.23.0
-- 
Mahesh J Salgaonkar
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