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authorPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2017-07-14 14:51:13 +0200
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2017-07-27 15:04:22 +0200
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printk/console: Enhance the check for consoles using init memory
printk_late_init() is responsible for disabling boot consoles that use init memory. It checks the address of struct console for this. But this is not enough. For example, there are several early consoles that have write() method in the init section and struct console in the normal section. They are not disabled and could cause fancy and hard to debug system states. It is even more complicated by the macros EARLYCON_DECLARE() and OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE() where various struct members are set at runtime by the provided setup() function. I have tried to reproduce this problem and forced the classic uart early console to stay using keep_bootcon parameter. In particular I used earlycon=uart,io,0x3f8 keep_bootcon console=ttyS0,115200. The system did not boot: [ 1.570496] PM: Image not found (code -22) [ 1.570496] PM: Image not found (code -22) [ 1.571886] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. [ 1.571886] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. [ 1.576407] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2528K [ 1.577244] kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) The double lines are caused by having both early uart console and ttyS0 console enabled at the same time. The early console stopped working when the init memory was freed. Fortunately, the invalid call was caught by the NX-protexted page check and did not cause any silent fancy problems. This patch adds a check for many other addresses stored in struct console. It omits setup() and match() that are used only when the console is registered. Therefore they have already been used at this point and there is no reason to use them again. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500036673-7122-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: "Fabio M. Di Nitto" <fdinitto@redhat.com> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 76985ee3dfff..87f1a8f4e0f9 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2659,8 +2659,16 @@ static int __init printk_late_init(void)
int ret;
for_each_console(con) {
- if ((con->flags & CON_BOOT) &&
- init_section_intersects(con, sizeof(*con))) {
+ if (!(con->flags & CON_BOOT))
+ continue;
+
+ /* Check addresses that might be used for enabled consoles. */
+ if (init_section_intersects(con, sizeof(*con)) ||
+ init_section_contains(con->write, 0) ||
+ init_section_contains(con->read, 0) ||
+ init_section_contains(con->device, 0) ||
+ init_section_contains(con->unblank, 0) ||
+ init_section_contains(con->data, 0)) {
/*
* Please, consider moving the reported consoles out
* of the init section.