[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc/rtas: Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Nov 12 23:14:45 UTC 2015


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

    powerpc/rtas: Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas()

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt10.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From f81bf1d98aa8762bd330294dece340f1c2333f26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:53:29 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 089/120] powerpc/rtas: Validate rtas.entry before calling
 enter_rtas()

commit 8832317f662c06f5c06e638f57bfe89a71c9b266 upstream.

Currently we do not validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas(). This
leads to a kernel oops when user space calls rtas system call on a powernv
platform (see below). This patch adds code to validate rtas.entry before
making enter_rtas() call.

  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1]
  SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA PowerNV
  task: c000000004294b80 ti: c0000007e1a78000 task.ti: c0000007e1a78000
  NIP: 0000000000000000 LR: 0000000000009c14 CTR: c000000000423140
  REGS: c0000007e1a7b920 TRAP: 0e40   Not tainted  (3.18.17-340.el7_1.pkvm3_1_0.2400.1.ppc64le)
  MSR: 1000000000081000 <HV,ME>  CR: 00000000  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c000000000009c0c SOFTE: 0
  NIP [0000000000000000]           (null)
  LR [0000000000009c14] 0x9c14
  Call Trace:
  [c0000007e1a7bba0] [c00000000041a7f4] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x54/0x110 (unreliable)
  [c0000007e1a7bd80] [c00000000002ddc0] ppc_rtas+0x150/0x2d0
  [c0000007e1a7be30] [c000000000009358] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98

Fixes: 55190f88789a ("powerpc: Add skeleton PowerNV platform")
Reported-by: NAGESWARA R. SASTRY <nasastry at in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Reword change log, trim oops, and add stable + fixes]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index 3e54b0b..8664656 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -1045,6 +1045,9 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args __user *uargs)
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;

+	if (!rtas.entry)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (copy_from_user(&args, uargs, 3 * sizeof(u32)) != 0)
 		return -EFAULT;

--
1.9.1





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