Re: [PATCH -next] powerpc/mm/ptdump: fix an undefined behaviour

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Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> writes:
> Le 05/03/2020 à 05:47, Qian Cai a écrit :
>> Booting a power9 server with hash MMU could trigger an undefined
>> behaviour because pud_offset(p4d, 0) will do,
>> 
>> 0 >> (PAGE_SHIFT:16 + PTE_INDEX_SIZE:8 + H_PMD_INDEX_SIZE:10)
>> 
>>   UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c:282:15
>>   shift exponent 34 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'
>>   CPU: 6 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc4-next-20200303+ #13
>>   Call Trace:
>>   dump_stack+0xf4/0x164 (unreliable)
>>   ubsan_epilogue+0x18/0x78
>>   __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x160/0x21c
>>   walk_pagetables+0x2cc/0x700
>>   walk_pud at arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c:282
>>   (inlined by) walk_pagetables at arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c:311
>>   ptdump_check_wx+0x8c/0xf0
>>   mark_rodata_ro+0x48/0x80
>>   kernel_init+0x74/0x194
>>   ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74
>> 
>> Fixes: 8eb07b187000 ("powerpc/mm: Dump linux pagetables")
>> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 
>> Notes for maintainers:
>> 
>> This is on the top of the linux-next commit "powerpc: add support for
>> folded p4d page tables" which is in the Andrew's tree.
>> 
>>   arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c
>> index 9d6256b61df3..b530f81398a7 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c
>> @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static void walk_pmd(struct pg_state *st, pud_t *pud, unsigned long start)
>>   
>>   static void walk_pud(struct pg_state *st, p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long start)
>>   {
>> -	pud_t *pud = pud_offset(p4d, 0);
>> +	pud_t *pud = pud_offset(p4d, 0UL);
>
> Is that the only place we have to do this ?
>
> (In 5.6-rc) I see the same in:
> /arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/hashpagetable.c
> /arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c
>
> Wouldn't it be better to:
> - Either cast addr to unsigned long in pud_index() macro
> - Or change pud_index() macro to a static inline function as x86 ?

Yes, either would be better, but preferably the latter.

It's hostile to require the caller to pass an unsigned long when there's
no way they can know that's required.

cheers





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