This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-rtas_flash-allow-user-copy-to-flash-block-cache-objects.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4f3175979e62de3b929bfa54a0db4b87d36257a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:37:55 -0500
Subject: powerpc/rtas_flash: allow user copy to flash block cache objects
From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 4f3175979e62de3b929bfa54a0db4b87d36257a7 upstream.
With hardened usercopy enabled (CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y), using the
/proc/powerpc/rtas/firmware_update interface to prepare a system
firmware update yields a BUG():
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 2232 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3+ #2
Hardware name: IBM,8408-E8E POWER8E (raw) 0x4b0201 0xf000004 of:IBM,FW860.50 (SV860_146) hv:phyp pSeries
NIP: c0000000005991d0 LR: c0000000005991cc CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c0000000148c76a0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.5.0-rc3+)
MSR: 8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24002242 XER: 0000000c
CFAR: c0000000001fbd34 IRQMASK: 0
[ ... GPRs omitted ... ]
NIP usercopy_abort+0xa0/0xb0
LR usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0
Call Trace:
usercopy_abort+0x9c/0xb0 (unreliable)
__check_heap_object+0x1b4/0x1d0
__check_object_size+0x2d0/0x380
rtas_flash_write+0xe4/0x250
proc_reg_write+0xfc/0x160
vfs_write+0xfc/0x4e0
ksys_write+0x90/0x160
system_call_exception+0x178/0x320
system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4
The blocks of the firmware image are copied directly from user memory
to objects allocated from flash_block_cache, so flash_block_cache must
be created using kmem_cache_create_usercopy() to mark it safe for user
access.
Fixes: 6d07d1cd300f ("usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mpe: Trim and indent oops]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230810-rtas-flash-vs-hardened-usercopy-v2-1-dcf63793a938@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
@@ -714,9 +714,9 @@ static int __init rtas_flash_init(void)
if (!rtas_validate_flash_data.buf)
return -ENOMEM;
- flash_block_cache = kmem_cache_create("rtas_flash_cache",
- RTAS_BLK_SIZE, RTAS_BLK_SIZE, 0,
- NULL);
+ flash_block_cache = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("rtas_flash_cache",
+ RTAS_BLK_SIZE, RTAS_BLK_SIZE,
+ 0, 0, RTAS_BLK_SIZE, NULL);
if (!flash_block_cache) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to create block cache\n",
__func__);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.19/powerpc-rtas_flash-allow-user-copy-to-flash-block-cache-objects.patch
