This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/rtas: Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas()
to the 4.2-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-validate-rtas.entry-before-calling-enter_rtas.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8832317f662c06f5c06e638f57bfe89a71c9b266 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:53:29 +0530
Subject: powerpc/rtas: Validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas()
From: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 8832317f662c06f5c06e638f57bfe89a71c9b266 upstream.
Currently we do not validate rtas.entry before calling enter_rtas(). This
leads to a kernel oops when user space calls rtas system call on a powernv
platform (see below). This patch adds code to validate rtas.entry before
making enter_rtas() call.
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 4 [#1]
SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA PowerNV
task: c000000004294b80 ti: c0000007e1a78000 task.ti: c0000007e1a78000
NIP: 0000000000000000 LR: 0000000000009c14 CTR: c000000000423140
REGS: c0000007e1a7b920 TRAP: 0e40 Not tainted (3.18.17-340.el7_1.pkvm3_1_0.2400.1.ppc64le)
MSR: 1000000000081000 <HV,ME> CR: 00000000 XER: 00000000
CFAR: c000000000009c0c SOFTE: 0
NIP [0000000000000000] (null)
LR [0000000000009c14] 0x9c14
Call Trace:
[c0000007e1a7bba0] [c00000000041a7f4] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x54/0x110 (unreliable)
[c0000007e1a7bd80] [c00000000002ddc0] ppc_rtas+0x150/0x2d0
[c0000007e1a7be30] [c000000000009358] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
Fixes: 55190f88789a ("powerpc: Add skeleton PowerNV platform")
Reported-by: NAGESWARA R. SASTRY <nasastry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mpe: Reword change log, trim oops, and add stable + fixes]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -1041,6 +1041,9 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
+ if (!rtas.entry)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (copy_from_user(&args, uargs, 3 * sizeof(u32)) != 0)
return -EFAULT;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hegdevasant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.2/powerpc-rtas-validate-rtas.entry-before-calling-enter_rtas.patch
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