[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "uio: we cannot mmap unaligned page contents" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    uio: we cannot mmap unaligned page contents

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.27.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

------

>From 3bd1259a3aca0eb2077329ce190f3c6e8ae4c9d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:50:37 -0800
Subject: uio: we cannot mmap unaligned page contents

commit b65502879556d041b45104c6a35abbbba28c8f2d upstream.

In commit 7314e613d5ff ("Fix a few incorrectly checked
[io_]remap_pfn_range() calls") the uio driver started more properly
checking the passed-in user mapping arguments against the size of the
actual uio driver data.

That in turn exposed that some driver authors apparently didn't realize
that mmap can only work on a page granularity, and had tried to use it
with smaller mappings, with the new size check catching that out.

So since it's not just the user mmap() arguments that can be confused,
make the uio mmap code also verify that the uio driver has the memory
allocated at page boundaries in order for mmap to work.  If the device
memory isn't properly aligned, we return

  [ENODEV]
    The fildes argument refers to a file whose type is not supported by mmap().

as per the open group documentation on mmap.

Reported-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck at keymile.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/uio/uio.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index 96f1359..9981b9b 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -655,6 +655,8 @@ static int uio_mmap_physical(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	mem = idev->info->mem + mi;

+	if (mem->addr & ~PAGE_MASK)
+		return -ENODEV;
 	if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start > mem->size)
 		return -EINVAL;

--
1.9.1