This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: vDSO: Fix Malta EVA mapping to vDSO page structs
to the 4.7-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:
mips-vdso-fix-malta-eva-mapping-to-vdso-page-structs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 554af0c396380baf416f54c439b99b495180b2f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 13:37:01 +0100
Subject: MIPS: vDSO: Fix Malta EVA mapping to vDSO page structs
From: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 554af0c396380baf416f54c439b99b495180b2f4 upstream.
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: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14229/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -39,16 +39,16 @@ static struct vm_special_mapping vdso_vv
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)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.7/mips-vdso-fix-malta-eva-mapping-to-vdso-page-structs.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html