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author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> | 2016-09-02 21:47:59 +1000 |
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committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2016-09-08 13:15:33 +1000 |
commit | f077aaf0754bcba0fffdbd925bc12f09cd1e38aa (patch) | |
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powerpc/mm: Don't alias user region to other regions below PAGE_OFFSET
In commit c60ac5693c47 ("powerpc: Update kernel VSID range", 2013-03-13)
we lost a check on the region number (the top four bits of the effective
address) for addresses below PAGE_OFFSET. That commit replaced a check
that the top 18 bits were all zero with a check that bits 46 - 59 were
zero (performed for all addresses, not just user addresses).
This means that userspace can access an address like 0x1000_0xxx_xxxx_xxxx
and we will insert a valid SLB entry for it. The VSID used will be the
same as if the top 4 bits were 0, but the page size will be some random
value obtained by indexing beyond the end of the mm_ctx_high_slices_psize
array in the paca. If that page size is the same as would be used for
region 0, then userspace just has an alias of the region 0 space. If the
page size is different, then no HPTE will be found for the access, and
the process will get a SIGSEGV (since hash_page_mm() will refuse to create
a HPTE for the bogus address).
The access beyond the end of the mm_ctx_high_slices_psize can be at most
5.5MB past the array, and so will be in RAM somewhere. Since the access
is a load performed in real mode, it won't fault or crash the kernel.
At most this bug could perhaps leak a little bit of information about
blocks of 32 bytes of memory located at offsets of i * 512kB past the
paca->mm_ctx_high_slices_psize array, for 1 <= i <= 11.
Fixes: c60ac5693c47 ("powerpc: Update kernel VSID range")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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