On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:52:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:45:26AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:44 PM, Tommi Rantala > > > <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Running: > > > > > > > > $ sudo x86info -a > > > > > > > > On this HP ZBook 15 G3 laptop kills the x86info process with segfault and > > > > produces the following kernel BUG. > > > > > > > > $ git describe > > > > v4.11-rc4-40-gfe82203 > > > > > > > > It is also reproducible with the fedora kernel: 4.9.14-200.fc25.x86_64 > > > > > > > > Full dmesg output here: https://pastebin.com/raw/Kur2mpZq > > > > > > > > [ 51.418954] usercopy: kernel memory exposure attempt detected from > > > > ffff880000090000 (dma-kmalloc-256) (4096 bytes) > > > > > > This seems like a real exposure: the copy is attempting to read 4096 > > > bytes from a 256 byte object. > > > > The code[1] is doing a 4k read from /dev/mem in the range 0x90000 -> 0xa0000 > > According to arch/x86/mm/init.c:devmem_is_allowed, that's still valid.. > > > > Note that the printk is using the direct mapping address. Is that what's > > being passed down to devmem_is_allowed now ? If so, that's probably what broke. > > So this is attempting to read physical memory 0x90000 -> 0xa0000, but > that's somehow resolving to a virtual address that is claimed by > dma-kmalloc?? I'm confused how that's happening... The only thing that I can think of would be a rogue ptr in the bios table, but that seems unlikely. Tommi, can you put strace of x86info -mp somewhere? That will confirm/deny whether we're at least asking the kernel to do sane things. Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
