Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] ata: sata_dwc_460ex: Fix crash due to OOB write

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:03:11AM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> the driver uses libata's "tag" values from in various arrays.
> Since the mentioned patch bumped the ATA_TAG_INTERNAL to 32,
> the value of the SATA_DWC_QCMD_MAX needs to be bumped to 33.
> 
> Otherwise ATA_TAG_INTERNAL cause a crash like this:
> 
> | BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000000
> | Faulting instruction address: 0xc03ed4b8
> | Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> | BE PAGE_SIZE=4K PowerPC 44x Platform
> | CPU: 0 PID: 362 Comm: scsi_eh_1 Not tainted 5.4.163 #0
> | NIP:  c03ed4b8 LR: c03d27e8 CTR: c03ed36c
> | REGS: cfa59950 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (5.4.163)
> | MSR:  00021000 <CE,ME>  CR: 42000222  XER: 00000000
> | DEAR: 00000000 ESR: 00000000
> | GPR00: c03d27e8 cfa59a08 cfa55fe0 00000000 0fa46bc0 [...]
> | [..]
> | NIP [c03ed4b8] sata_dwc_qc_issue+0x14c/0x254
> | LR [c03d27e8] ata_qc_issue+0x1c8/0x2dc
> | Call Trace:
> | [cfa59a08] [c003f4e0] __cancel_work_timer+0x124/0x194 (unreliable)
> | [cfa59a78] [c03d27e8] ata_qc_issue+0x1c8/0x2dc
> | [cfa59a98] [c03d2b3c] ata_exec_internal_sg+0x240/0x524
> | [cfa59b08] [c03d2e98] ata_exec_internal+0x78/0xe0
> | [cfa59b58] [c03d30fc] ata_read_log_page.part.38+0x1dc/0x204
> | [cfa59bc8] [c03d324c] ata_identify_page_supported+0x68/0x130
> | [...]
> 
> this is because sata_dwc_dma_xfer_complete() NULLs the
> dma_pending's next neighbour "chan" (a *dma_chan struct) in
> this '32' case right here (line ~735):
> > hsdevp->dma_pending[tag] = SATA_DWC_DMA_PENDING_NONE;
> 
> Then the next time, a dma gets issued; dma_dwc_xfer_setup() passes
> the NULL'd hsdevp->chan to the dmaengine_slave_config() which then
> causes the crash.

...

> ticerex said when I've asked him about his real name+email for the patches:
> "Please use my forum nick."
> <https://forum.openwrt.org/t/my-book-live-duo-reboot-loop/122464/14>
> (I know checkpatch.pl complains about that. But what can you do?)

I think Reported-by: is fine to have any kind of reference to the reporter.
I can consider it false positive.

...

> -#define SATA_DWC_QCMD_MAX	32
> +#define SATA_DWC_QCMD_MAX	33

Can't we use 

#define SATA_DWC_QCMD_MAX	(ATA_TAG_INTERNAL + 1)

instead?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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