[PATCH] lib: fwts_safe_mem: add SIGBUS handling
Erico Nunes
ernunes at redhat.com
Tue Jun 6 12:07:15 UTC 2017
On 06/05/2017 04:15 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> We should also add SIGBUS protection on unsafe memory reads; we're
> seeing these occur on ARM64 platforms and we don't want fwts to break
> because of SIGBUS crashes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
> src/lib/src/fwts_safe_mem.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/lib/src/fwts_safe_mem.c b/src/lib/src/fwts_safe_mem.c
> index fe71d5a8..a25d389a 100644
> --- a/src/lib/src/fwts_safe_mem.c
> +++ b/src/lib/src/fwts_safe_mem.c
> @@ -23,18 +23,19 @@
> #include "fwts.h"
>
> static sigjmp_buf jmpbuf;
> -static struct sigaction old_action;
> +static struct sigaction old_segv_action, old_bus_action;
>
> /*
> - * If we hit a SIGSEGV then the port read
> + * If we hit a SIGSEGV or SIGBUS then the read
> * failed and we longjmp back and return
> * FWTS_ERROR
> */
> -static void segv_handler(int dummy)
> +static void sig_handler(int dummy)
> {
> FWTS_UNUSED(dummy);
>
> - fwts_sig_handler_restore(SIGSEGV, &old_action);
> + fwts_sig_handler_restore(SIGSEGV, &old_segv_action);
> + fwts_sig_handler_restore(SIGBUS, &old_bus_action);
> siglongjmp(jmpbuf, 1);
> }
>
> @@ -42,16 +43,19 @@ static void segv_handler(int dummy)
> * fwts_safe_memcpy()
> * memcpy that catches segfaults. to be used when
> * attempting to read BIOS tables from memory which
> - * may segfault if the src address is corrupt
> + * may segfault or throw a bus error if the src
> + * address is corrupt
> */
> int fwts_safe_memcpy(void *dst, const void *src, const size_t n)
> {
> if (sigsetjmp(jmpbuf, 1) != 0)
> return FWTS_ERROR;
>
> - fwts_sig_handler_set(SIGSEGV, segv_handler, &old_action);
> + fwts_sig_handler_set(SIGSEGV, sig_handler, &old_segv_action);
> + fwts_sig_handler_set(SIGBUS, sig_handler, &old_bus_action);
> memcpy(dst, src, n);
> - fwts_sig_handler_restore(SIGSEGV, &old_action);
> + fwts_sig_handler_restore(SIGSEGV, &old_segv_action);
> + fwts_sig_handler_restore(SIGBUS, &old_bus_action);
>
> return FWTS_OK;
> }
>
Thanks for the patch, I have tested it in my target and it does prevent
the crash from happening.
Acked-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico at gmail.com>
Tested-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico at gmail.com>
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