Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The tlv passed to iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger comes from a loaded firmware > file. The memory can be marked as read-only as firmware could be > shared. In anyway, writing to this memory is not expected. So, > iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger can crash now: > > BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffae2c01bfa794 > PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode > PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation > PGD 107d51067 P4D 107d51067 PUD 107d52067 PMD 659ad2067 PTE 8000000662298161 > CPU: 2 PID: 161 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 5.7.0-3.gad96a07-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed (unreleased) > RIP: 0010:iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger+0x25/0x60 [iwlwifi] > Code: eb f2 0f 1f 00 66 66 66 66 90 83 7e 04 33 48 89 f8 44 8b 46 10 48 89 f7 76 40 41 8d 50 ff 83 fa 19 77 23 8b 56 20 85 d2 75 07 <c7> 46 20 ff ff ff ff 4b 8d 14 40 48 c1 e2 04 48 8d b4 10 00 05 00 > RSP: 0018:ffffae2c00417ce8 EFLAGS: 00010246 > RAX: ffff8f0522334018 RBX: ffff8f0522334018 RCX: ffffffffc0fc26c0 > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffae2c01bfa774 RDI: ffffae2c01bfa774 > RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000001 > R10: 0000000000000034 R11: ffffae2c01bfa77c R12: ffff8f0522334230 > R13: 0000000001000009 R14: ffff8f0523fdbc00 R15: ffff8f051f395800 > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8f0527c80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: ffffae2c01bfa794 CR3: 0000000389eba000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 > Call Trace: > iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc+0x79/0x120 [iwlwifi] > iwl_parse_tlv_firmware.isra.0+0x57d/0x1550 [iwlwifi] > iwl_req_fw_callback+0x3f8/0x6a0 [iwlwifi] > request_firmware_work_func+0x47/0x90 > process_one_work+0x1e3/0x3b0 > worker_thread+0x46/0x340 > kthread+0x115/0x140 > ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40 > > As can be seen, write bit is not set in the PTE. Read of > trig->occurrences succeeds in iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger, but > trig->occurrences = cpu_to_le32(-1); fails there, obviously. > > This is likely because we (at SUSE) use compressed firmware and that is > marked as RO after decompression (see fw_map_paged_buf). > > Fix it by creating a temporary buffer in case we need to change the > memory. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Dieter Nützel <Dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Dieter Nützel <Dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks. ea0cca61d628 iwlwifi: fix crash in iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11601365/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches