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| author | James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> | 2015-08-05 16:41:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2015-12-22 11:55:24 +0100 |
| commit | 6f06a2c45d8d714ea3b11a360b4a7191e52acaa4 (patch) | |
| tree | c3c55fe07e3a54127d4afa3a51643a8278da7585 /arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h | |
| parent | 5dc62fdd8383afbd2faca6b6e6ea1052b45b0124 (diff) | |
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MIPS: uaccess: Take EVA into account in __copy_from_user()
When EVA is in use, __copy_from_user() was unconditionally using the EVA
instructions to read the user address space, however this can also be
used for kernel access. If the address isn't a valid user address it
will cause an address error or TLB exception, and if it is then user
memory may be read instead of kernel memory.
For example in the following stack trace from Linux v3.10 (changes since
then will prevent this particular one still happening) kernel_sendmsg()
set the user address limit to KERNEL_DS, and tcp_sendmsg() goes on to
use __copy_from_user() with a kernel address in KSeg0.
[<8002d434>] __copy_fromuser_common+0x10c/0x254
[<805710e0>] tcp_sendmsg+0x5f4/0xf00
[<804e8e3c>] sock_sendmsg+0x78/0xa0
[<804e8f28>] kernel_sendmsg+0x24/0x38
[<804ee0f8>] sock_no_sendpage+0x70/0x7c
[<8017c820>] pipe_to_sendpage+0x80/0x98
[<8017c6b0>] splice_from_pipe_feed+0xa8/0x198
[<8017cc54>] __splice_from_pipe+0x4c/0x8c
[<8017e844>] splice_from_pipe+0x58/0x78
[<8017e884>] generic_splice_sendpage+0x20/0x2c
[<8017d690>] do_splice_from+0xb4/0x110
[<8017d710>] direct_splice_actor+0x24/0x30
[<8017d394>] splice_direct_to_actor+0xd8/0x208
[<8017d51c>] do_splice_direct+0x58/0x7c
[<8014eaf4>] do_sendfile+0x1dc/0x39c
[<8014f82c>] SyS_sendfile+0x90/0xf8
Add the eva_kernel_access() check in __copy_from_user() like the one in
copy_from_user().
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10843/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h index 3f959c01bfdb..5014e187df23 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -1122,9 +1122,15 @@ extern size_t __copy_in_user_eva(void *__to, const void *__from, size_t __n); __cu_to = (to); \ __cu_from = (from); \ __cu_len = (n); \ - might_fault(); \ - __cu_len = __invoke_copy_from_user(__cu_to, __cu_from, \ - __cu_len); \ + if (eva_kernel_access()) { \ + __cu_len = __invoke_copy_from_kernel(__cu_to, \ + __cu_from, \ + __cu_len); \ + } else { \ + might_fault(); \ + __cu_len = __invoke_copy_from_user(__cu_to, __cu_from, \ + __cu_len); \ + } \ __cu_len; \ }) |