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Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] powerpc/mm: sanity_check_fault() should work for all, not only BOOK3S

From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-09-08 08:43:59
Also in: lkml

Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of August 7, 2020 3:15 am:
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The verification and message introduced by commit 374f3f5979f9
("powerpc/mm/hash: Handle user access of kernel address gracefully")
applies to all platforms, it should not be limited to BOOK3S.

Make the BOOK3S version of sanity_check_fault() the one for all,
and bail out earlier if not BOOK3S.

Fixes: 374f3f5979f9 ("powerpc/mm/hash: Handle user access of kernel address gracefully")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index 925a7231abb3..2efa34d7e644 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -303,7 +303,6 @@ static inline void cmo_account_page_fault(void)
 static inline void cmo_account_page_fault(void) { }
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_SMLPAR */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
 static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, bool is_user,
 			       unsigned long error_code, unsigned long address)
 {
@@ -320,6 +319,9 @@ static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, bool is_user,
 		return;
 	}
 
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S))
+		return;
Seems okay. Why is address == -1 special though? I guess it's because 
it may not be an exploit kernel reference but a buggy pointer underflow? 
In that case -1 doesn't seem like it would catch very much. Would it be 
better to test for high bit set for example ((long)address < 0) ?

Anyway for your patch

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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+
 	/*
 	 * For hash translation mode, we should never get a
 	 * PROTFAULT. Any update to pte to reduce access will result in us
@@ -354,10 +356,6 @@ static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, bool is_user,
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(error_code & DSISR_PROTFAULT);
 }
-#else
-static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, bool is_user,
-			       unsigned long error_code, unsigned long address) { }
-#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S */
 
 /*
  * Define the correct "is_write" bit in error_code based
-- 
2.25.0
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