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Subject[PATCH v2] drivers: char: mem: Check {read,write}_kmem() addresses
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Arriving at read_kmem() with an offset representing a bogus kernel
address (e.g. 0 from a simple "cat /dev/kmem") leads to copy_to_user
faulting on the kernel-side read.

x86_64 happens to get away with this since the optimised implementation
uses "rep movs*", thus the user write (which is allowed to fault) and
the kernel read are the same instruction, the kernel-side fault falls
into the user-side fixup handler and the chain of events which
transpires ends up returning an error as one might expect, even if it's
an inappropriate -EFAULT. On other architectures, though, the read is
not covered by the fixup entry for the write, and we get a big scary
"Unable to hande kernel paging request..." dump.

The more typical use-case of mmap_kmem() has always (within living
memory at least) returned -EIO for addresses which don't satisfy
pfn_valid(), so let's make that consistent across {read,write}_kem()
too.

Reported-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
---

v2: Make the error code consistent and more appropriate, tweak commit message.

drivers/char/mem.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 71025c2f6bbb..e1b8d960341f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -384,6 +384,9 @@ static ssize_t read_kmem(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
char *kbuf; /* k-addr because vread() takes vmlist_lock rwlock */
int err = 0;

+ if (!pfn_valid(PFN_DOWN(p)))
+ return -EIO;
+
read = 0;
if (p < (unsigned long) high_memory) {
low_count = count;
@@ -512,6 +515,9 @@ static ssize_t write_kmem(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
char *kbuf; /* k-addr because vwrite() takes vmlist_lock rwlock */
int err = 0;

+ if (!pfn_valid(PFN_DOWN(p)))
+ return -EIO;
+
if (p < (unsigned long) high_memory) {
unsigned long to_write = min_t(unsigned long, count,
(unsigned long)high_memory - p);
--
2.8.1.dirty
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