This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/pseries: Enforce hcall result buffer validity and size
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-pseries-enforce-hcall-result-buffer-validity.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.
commit ad2aa563c9b1beca7490b5d28a2aefa8c017e00d
Author: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Apr 8 09:08:31 2024 -0500
powerpc/pseries: Enforce hcall result buffer validity and size
[ Upstream commit ff2e185cf73df480ec69675936c4ee75a445c3e4 ]
plpar_hcall(), plpar_hcall9(), and related functions expect callers to
provide valid result buffers of certain minimum size. Currently this
is communicated only through comments in the code and the compiler has
no idea.
For example, if I write a bug like this:
long retbuf[PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE]; // should be PLPAR_HCALL9_BUFSIZE
plpar_hcall9(H_ALLOCATE_VAS_WINDOW, retbuf, ...);
This compiles with no diagnostics emitted, but likely results in stack
corruption at runtime when plpar_hcall9() stores results past the end
of the array. (To be clear this is a contrived example and I have not
found a real instance yet.)
To make this class of error less likely, we can use explicitly-sized
array parameters instead of pointers in the declarations for the hcall
APIs. When compiled with -Warray-bounds[1], the code above now
provokes a diagnostic like this:
error: array argument is too small;
is of size 32, callee requires at least 72 [-Werror,-Warray-bounds]
60 | plpar_hcall9(H_ALLOCATE_VAS_WINDOW, retbuf,
| ^ ~~~~~~
[1] Enabled for LLVM builds but not GCC for now. See commit
0da6e5fd6c37 ("gcc: disable '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-13 too") and
related changes.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240408-pseries-hvcall-retbuf-v1-1-ebc73d7253cf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h
index 2bbf6c01a13d7..1fb2c4a3eb54b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ long plpar_hcall_norets(unsigned long opcode, ...);
* Used for all but the craziest of phyp interfaces (see plpar_hcall9)
*/
#define PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE 4
-long plpar_hcall(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *retbuf, ...);
+long plpar_hcall(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long retbuf[static PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE], ...);
/**
* plpar_hcall_raw: - Make a hypervisor call without calculating hcall stats
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ long plpar_hcall(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *retbuf, ...);
* plpar_hcall, but plpar_hcall_raw works in real mode and does not
* calculate hypervisor call statistics.
*/
-long plpar_hcall_raw(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *retbuf, ...);
+long plpar_hcall_raw(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long retbuf[static PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE], ...);
/**
* plpar_hcall9: - Make a pseries hypervisor call with up to 9 return arguments
@@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ long plpar_hcall_raw(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *retbuf, ...);
* PLPAR_HCALL9_BUFSIZE to size the return argument buffer.
*/
#define PLPAR_HCALL9_BUFSIZE 9
-long plpar_hcall9(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *retbuf, ...);
-long plpar_hcall9_raw(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *retbuf, ...);
+long plpar_hcall9(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long retbuf[static PLPAR_HCALL9_BUFSIZE], ...);
+long plpar_hcall9_raw(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long retbuf[static PLPAR_HCALL9_BUFSIZE], ...);
struct hvcall_mpp_data {
unsigned long entitled_mem;
