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authorNathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>2023-08-11 06:37:55 +0300
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2023-08-17 02:46:14 +0300
commit4f3175979e62de3b929bfa54a0db4b87d36257a7 (patch)
tree11912dc76f3d37c3729bf021991da1cdf6849fdd /arch/powerpc/kernel
parent86582e6189dd8f9f52c25d46c70fe5d111da6345 (diff)
downloadlinux-4f3175979e62de3b929bfa54a0db4b87d36257a7.tar.xz
powerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects
With hardened usercopy enabled (CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y), using the /proc/powerpc/rtas/firmware_update interface to prepare a system firmware update yields a BUG(): kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102! Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 2232 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3+ #2 Hardware name: IBM,8408-E8E POWER8E (raw) 0x4b0201 0xf000004 of:IBM,FW860.50 (SV860_146) hv:phyp pSeries NIP: c0000000005991d0 LR: c0000000005991cc CTR: 0000000000000000 REGS: c0000000148c76a0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.5.0-rc3+) MSR: 8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24002242 XER: 0000000c CFAR: c0000000001fbd34 IRQMASK: 0 [ ... GPRs omitted ... ] NIP usercopy_abort+0xa0/0xb0 LR usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0 Call Trace: usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0 (unreliable) __check_heap_object+0x1b4/0x1d0 __check_object_size+0x2d0/0x380 rtas_flash_write+0xe4/0x250 proc_reg_write+0xfc/0x160 vfs_write+0xfc/0x4e0 ksys_write+0x90/0x160 system_call_exception+0x178/0x320 system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4 The blocks of the firmware image are copied directly from user memory to objects allocated from flash_block_cache, so flash_block_cache must be created using kmem_cache_create_usercopy() to mark it safe for user access. Fixes: 6d07d1cd300f ("usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0") Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> [mpe: Trim and indent oops] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://msgid.link/20230810-rtas-flash-vs-hardened-usercopy-v2-1-dcf63793a938@linux.ibm.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
index 4caf5e3079eb..359577ec1680 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
@@ -709,9 +709,9 @@ static int __init rtas_flash_init(void)
if (!rtas_validate_flash_data.buf)
return -ENOMEM;
- flash_block_cache = kmem_cache_create("rtas_flash_cache",
- RTAS_BLK_SIZE, RTAS_BLK_SIZE, 0,
- NULL);
+ flash_block_cache = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("rtas_flash_cache",
+ RTAS_BLK_SIZE, RTAS_BLK_SIZE,
+ 0, 0, RTAS_BLK_SIZE, NULL);
if (!flash_block_cache) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to create block cache\n",
__func__);