kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/mem.c, branch v4.4.171

x86/mm/pat, /dev/mem: Remove superfluous error message

2018-01-17T08:35:28+00:00

commit 39380b80d72723282f0ea1d1bbf2294eae45013e upstream. Currently it's possible for broken (or malicious) userspace to flood a kernel log indefinitely with messages a-la Program dmidecode tried to access /dev/mem between f0000->100000 because range_is_allowed() is case of CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM being turned on dumps this information each and every time devmem_is_allowed() fails. Reportedly userspace that is able to trigger contignuous flow of these messages exists. It would be possible to rate limit this message, but that'd have a questionable value; the administrator wouldn't get information about all the failing accessess, so then the information would be both superfluous and incomplete at the same time :) Returning EPERM (which is what is actually happening) is enough indication for userspace what has happened; no need to log this particular error as some sort of special condition. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Toshi Kani Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1607081137020.24757@cbobk.fhfr.pm Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: char: mem: Fix wraparound check to allow mappings up to the end

2017-06-14T11:16:26+00:00

commit 32829da54d9368103a2f03269a5120aa9ee4d5da upstream. A recent fix to /dev/mem prevents mappings from wrapping around the end of physical address space. However, the check was written in a way that also prevents a mapping reaching just up to the end of physical address space, which may be a valid use case (especially on 32-bit systems). This patch fixes it by checking the last mapped address (instead of the first address behind that) for overflow. Fixes: b299cde245 ("drivers: char: mem: Check for address space wraparound with mmap()") Reported-by: Nico Huber Signed-off-by: Julius Werner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: char: mem: Check for address space wraparound with mmap()

2017-05-25T12:30:18+00:00

commit b299cde245b0b76c977f4291162cf668e087b408 upstream. /dev/mem currently allows mmap() mappings that wrap around the end of the physical address space, which should probably be illegal. It circumvents the existing STRICT_DEVMEM permission check because the loop immediately terminates (as the start address is already higher than the end address). On the x86_64 architecture it will then cause a panic (from the BUG(start >= end) in arch/x86/mm/pat.c:reserve_memtype()). This patch adds an explicit check to make sure offset + size will not wrap around in the physical address type. Signed-off-by: Julius Werner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: Tighten x86 /dev/mem with zeroing reads

2017-04-21T07:30:07+00:00

commit a4866aa812518ed1a37d8ea0c881dc946409de94 upstream. Under CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM, reading System RAM through /dev/mem is disallowed. However, on x86, the first 1MB was always allowed for BIOS and similar things, regardless of it actually being System RAM. It was possible for heap to end up getting allocated in low 1MB RAM, and then read by things like x86info or dd, which would trip hardened usercopy: usercopy: kernel memory exposure attempt detected from ffff880000090000 (dma-kmalloc-256) (4096 bytes) This changes the x86 exception for the low 1MB by reading back zeros for System RAM areas instead of blindly allowing them. More work is needed to extend this to mmap, but currently mmap doesn't go through usercopy, so hardened usercopy won't Oops the kernel. Reported-by: Tommi Rantala Tested-by: Tommi Rantala Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Brad Spengler Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

switch drivers/char/mem.c to ->read_iter/->write_iter

2015-04-12T02:29:40+00:00

Note that _these_ guys have ->read() and ->write() left in place - they are eqiuvalent to what we'd get if we replaced those with NULL, but we are talking about hot paths here. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

make new_sync_{read,write}() static

2015-04-12T02:29:40+00:00

All places outside of core VFS that checked ->read and ->write for being NULL or called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL {read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: move struct kiocb to fs.h

2015-03-26T00:28:11+00:00

struct kiocb now is a generic I/O container, so move it to fs.h. Also do a #include diet for aio.h while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2015-02-15T18:48:44+00:00

Pull char / misc patches from Greg KH: "Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.20-rc1. Lots of little things in here, all described in the changelog. Nothing major or unusual, except maybe the binder selinux stuff, which was all acked by the proper selinux people and they thought it best to come through this tree. All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while" * tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (90 commits) coresight: fix function etm_writel_cp14() parameter order coresight-etm: remove check for unknown Kconfig macro coresight: fixing CPU hwid lookup in device tree coresight: remove the unnecessary function coresight_is_bit_set() coresight: fix the debug AMBA bus name coresight: remove the extra spaces coresight: fix the link between orphan connection and newly added device coresight: remove the unnecessary replicator property coresight: fix the replicator subtype value pdfdocs: Fix 'make pdfdocs' failure for 'uio-howto.tmpl' mcb: Fix error path of mcb_pci_probe virtio/console: verify device has config space ti-st: clean up data types (fix harmless memory corruption) mei: me: release hw from reset only during the reset flow mei: mask interrupt set bit on clean reset bit extcon: max77693: Constify struct regmap_config extcon: adc-jack: Release IIO channel on driver remove extcon: Remove duplicated include from extcon-class.c Drivers: hv: vmbus: hv_process_timer_expiration() can be static Drivers: hv: vmbus: serialize Offer and Rescind offer ...

fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support

2015-01-20T21:02:58+00:00

Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated to it's original purpose. Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to the nommu mmap code instead. Splitting this from the backing_dev_info structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a backing_dev_info for a character device. It also removes the need for the mtd_inodefs filesystem. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Brian Norris Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drivers: char: mem: Fix Missing blank line issues

2015-01-12T13:04:11+00:00

Fixes "Missing a blank line after declarations" reported by checkpatch. This patch introduces no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Rob Ward Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman