The page structures associated with the vDSO pages in the kernel image
are calculated using virt_to_page(), which uses __pa() under the hood to
find the pfn associated with the virtual address. The vDSO data pointers
however point to kernel symbols, so __pa_symbol() should really be used
instead.
Since there is no equivalent to virt_to_page() which uses __pa_symbol(),
fix init_vdso_image() to work directly with pfns, calculated with
__phys_to_pfn(__pa_symbol(...)).
This issue broke the Malta Enhanced Virtual Addressing (EVA)
configuration which has a non-default implementation of __pa_symbol().
This is because it uses a physical alias so that the kernel executes
from KSeg0 (VA 0x80000000 -> PA 0x00000000), while RAM is provided to
the kernel in the KUSeg range (VA 0x00000000 -> PA 0x80000000) which
uses the same underlying RAM.
Since there are no page structures associated with the low physical
address region, some arbitrary kernel memory would be interpreted as a
page structure for the vDSO pages and badness ensues.
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.4.x-
---
Changes in v2:
- Switch to __phys_to_pfn() added in v4.3, since PHYS_PFN() was only
added in v4.5 and we need this backported as far as v4.4.
---
arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c
index 9abe447a4b48..f9dbfb14af33 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -39,16 +39,16 @@ static struct vm_special_mapping vdso_vvar_mapping = {
static void __init init_vdso_image(struct mips_vdso_image *image)
{
unsigned long num_pages, i;
+ unsigned long data_pfn;
BUG_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(image->data));
BUG_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(image->size));
num_pages = image->size / PAGE_SIZE;
- for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++) {
- image->mapping.pages[i] =
- virt_to_page(image->data + (i * PAGE_SIZE));
- }
+ data_pfn = __phys_to_pfn(__pa_symbol(image->data));
+ for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++)
+ image->mapping.pages[i] = pfn_to_page(data_pfn + i);
}
static int __init init_vdso(void)
--
git-series 0.8.10
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