Re: [PATCH] arm64: fix address fault during mapping fdt region
From: Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-01 09:51:03
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linux-arm-kernel, lkml
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
On 1 August 2016 at 11:42, zijun_hu [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From 07b9216ec3494515e7a6c41e0333eb8782427db3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zijun_hu <redacted> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 17:04:59 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: fix address fault during mapping fdt region fdt_check_header() accesses other fileds of fdt header but the first 8 bytes such as version; so accessing unmapped address fault happens if fdt region locates below align boundary nearly during mapping fdt region, or expressed as (offset + sizeof(struct fdt_header)) > SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE fdt header size at least is mapped in order to avoid the issue Signed-off-by: zijun_hu <redacted> --- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c index 0f85a46..0d72b71 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c@@ -744,6 +744,7 @@ void *__init __fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys, int *size, pgprot_t prot) const u64 dt_virt_base = __fix_to_virt(FIX_FDT); int offset; void *dt_virt; + int dt_header_map_size; /* * Check whether the physical FDT address is set and meets the minimum@@ -774,9 +775,18 @@ void *__init __fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys, int *size, pgprot_t prot) offset = dt_phys % SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE; dt_virt = (void *)dt_virt_base + offset; + /* + * fdt_check_header() maybe access any field of fdt header not + * the first 8 bytes only, so map fdt header size at least for + * checking fdt header without address fault more portably + */ + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct fdt_header) > SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE); + dt_header_map_size = round_up(offset + sizeof(struct fdt_header), + SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE); + /* map the first chunk so we can read the size from the header */ create_mapping_noalloc(round_down(dt_phys, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE), - dt_virt_base, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE, prot); + dt_virt_base, dt_header_map_size, prot); if (fdt_check_header(dt_virt) != 0) return NULL;@@ -785,7 +795,7 @@ void *__init __fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_t dt_phys, int *size, pgprot_t prot) if (*size > MAX_FDT_SIZE) return NULL; - if (offset + *size > SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE) + if (offset + *size > dt_header_map_size) create_mapping_noalloc(round_down(dt_phys, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE), dt_virt_base, round_up(offset + *size, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE), prot);
Couldn't we simply do this instead?
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 0f85a46c3e18..e8d3b04a2b57 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ void *__init __fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_tdt_phys, int *size, pgprot_t prot)
create_mapping_noalloc(round_down(dt_phys, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE),
dt_virt_base, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE, prot);
- if (fdt_check_header(dt_virt) != 0)
+ if (fdt_magic(dt_virt) != FDT_MAGIC)
return NULL;
*size = fdt_totalsize(dt_virt);
We are simply looking for a size field. The OF code will call
fdt_check_header() again, so anything that is checked there in
addition to the magic field will still be checked.
--
Ard.