Re: [PATCH 01/13] cpuidle: psci: Fix potential access to unmapped memory

[Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 12:03, Lorenzo Pieralisi
<lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:51:11AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 11:38, Lorenzo Pieralisi
> > <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 01:39:25PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > > > When the WFI state have been selected, the in-parameter idx to
> > > > psci_enter_idle_state() is zero. In this case, we must not index the state
> > > > array as "state[idx - 1]", as it means accessing data outside the array.
> > > > Fix the bug by pre-checking if idx is zero.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 9ffeb6d08c3a ("PSCI: cpuidle: Refactor CPU suspend power_state parameter handling")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c | 6 +++---
> > > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c
> > > > index f3c1a2396f98..2e91c8d6c211 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c
> > > > @@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(u32 *, psci_power_state);
> > > >  static int psci_enter_idle_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
> > > >                               struct cpuidle_driver *drv, int idx)
> > > >  {
> > > > -     u32 *state = __this_cpu_read(psci_power_state);
> > > > +     u32 *states = __this_cpu_read(psci_power_state);
> > > > +     u32 state = idx ? states[idx - 1] : 0;
> > > >
> > > > -     return CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER_PARAM(psci_cpu_suspend_enter,
> > > > -                                        idx, state[idx - 1]);
> > > > +     return CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER_PARAM(psci_cpu_suspend_enter, idx, state);
> > >
> > > Technically we don't dereference that array entry but I agree this
> > > is ugly and potentially broken.
> >
> > No sure understand the non-deference part.
> >
> > If the governor selects WFI, the idx will be 0 - and thus we end up
> > using state[-1], doesn't that dereference an invalid address, no?
>
> No because CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER_PARAM is a macro, the code it
> preprocesses to won't dereference state[idx - 1] if idx == 0.
>
> I agree it is *very* ugly but technically code is not broken.

Ahh, got it, thanks!

>
> > > My preference is aligning it with ACPI code and allocate one more
> > > entry in the psci_power_state array (useless for wfi, agreed but
> > > at least we remove this (-1) handling from the code).
> >
> > I can do that, but sounds like a slightly bigger change. Are you fine
> > if I do that on top, so we can get this sent as fix for v5.4-rc[n]?
>
> Technically we are not fixing anything; it is not such a big
> change, we need to allocate one entry more and update the array
> indexing.

Okay, let me do the change - and it seems like it doesn't even have to
be sent as a fix then. Right?

Kind regards
Uffe

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