From: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, geert@linux-m68k.org,
a.hajda@samsung.com, robin.murphy@arm.com,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Do not leave an invalid area->pages pointer in dma_common_contiguous_remap()
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:38:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec8459d4-7970-9d01-3115-5c647c2a4559@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1493144543-2497-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com>
On 04/25/2017 11:22 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The dma_common_pages_remap() function allocates a vm_struct object and
> initialises the pages pointer to value passed as argument. However, when
> this function is called dma_common_contiguous_remap(), the pages array
> is only temporarily allocated, being freed shortly after
> dma_common_contiguous_remap() returns. Architecture code checking the
> validity of an area->pages pointer would incorrectly dereference already
> freed pointers. This has been exposed by the arm64 commit 44176bb38fa4
> ("arm64: Add support for DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS to IOMMU").
>
> Fixes: 513510ddba96 ("common: dma-mapping: introduce common remapping functions")
> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Reported-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> This is for correctness since once the arm64's mmap and get_sgtable ops
> are fixed for DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS, we would no longer see the
> issue. Anyway, it's better to get this fixed in case others trip over a
> similar issue. I added a "Fixes" tag for completeness but I'm not sure
> it's worth back-porting.
>
> drivers/base/dma-mapping.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/dma-mapping.c b/drivers/base/dma-mapping.c
> index efd71cf4fdea..ab7071041141 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -277,8 +277,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_common_mmap);
> * remaps an array of PAGE_SIZE pages into another vm_area
> * Cannot be used in non-sleeping contexts
> */
> -void *dma_common_pages_remap(struct page **pages, size_t size,
> - unsigned long vm_flags, pgprot_t prot,
> +static struct vm_struct *__dma_common_pages_remap(struct page **pages,
> + size_t size, unsigned long vm_flags, pgprot_t prot,
> const void *caller)
> {
> struct vm_struct *area;
> @@ -287,13 +287,26 @@ void *dma_common_pages_remap(struct page **pages, size_t size,
> if (!area)
> return NULL;
>
> - area->pages = pages;
> -
> if (map_vm_area(area, prot, pages)) {
> vunmap(area->addr);
> return NULL;
> }
>
> + return area;
> +}
> +
> +void *dma_common_pages_remap(struct page **pages, size_t size,
> + unsigned long vm_flags, pgprot_t prot,
> + const void *caller)
> +{
> + struct vm_struct *area;
> +
> + area = __dma_common_pages_remap(pages, size, vm_flags, prot, caller);
> + if (!area)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + area->pages = pages;
> +
> return area->addr;
> }
>
> @@ -308,7 +321,7 @@ void *dma_common_contiguous_remap(struct page *page, size_t size,
> {
> int i;
> struct page **pages;
> - void *ptr;
> + struct vm_struct *area;
> unsigned long pfn;
>
> pages = kmalloc(sizeof(struct page *) << get_order(size), GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -318,11 +331,13 @@ void *dma_common_contiguous_remap(struct page *page, size_t size,
> for (i = 0, pfn = page_to_pfn(page); i < (size >> PAGE_SHIFT); i++)
> pages[i] = pfn_to_page(pfn + i);
>
> - ptr = dma_common_pages_remap(pages, size, vm_flags, prot, caller);
> + area = __dma_common_pages_remap(pages, size, vm_flags, prot, caller);
>
> kfree(pages);
>
> - return ptr;
> + if (!area)
> + return NULL;
> + return area->addr;
> }
>
> /*
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-25 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-25 18:22 [PATCH] arm64: Do not leave an invalid area->pages pointer in dma_common_contiguous_remap() Catalin Marinas
2017-04-25 18:25 ` [PATCH] drivers: dma-mapping: " Catalin Marinas
2017-04-28 16:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-25 19:38 ` Laura Abbott [this message]
2017-05-03 12:10 ` [PATCH] arm64: " Robin Murphy
2017-05-03 14:12 ` Catalin Marinas
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