This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: ensure __dump_instr() checks addr_limit
to the 3.18-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:
arm64-ensure-__dump_instr-checks-addr_limit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7a7003b1da010d2b0d1dc8bf21c10f5c73b389f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 16:12:03 +0000
Subject: arm64: ensure __dump_instr() checks addr_limit
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
commit 7a7003b1da010d2b0d1dc8bf21c10f5c73b389f1 upstream.
It's possible for a user to deliberately trigger __dump_instr with a
chosen kernel address.
Let's avoid problems resulting from this by using get_user() rather than
__get_user(), ensuring that we don't erroneously access kernel memory.
Where we use __dump_instr() on kernel text, we already switch to
KERNEL_DS, so this shouldn't adversely affect those cases.
Fixes: 60ffc30d5652810d ("arm64: Exception handling")
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static void dump_instr(const char *lvl,
for (i = -4; i < 1; i++) {
unsigned int val, bad;
- bad = __get_user(val, &((u32 *)addr)[i]);
+ bad = get_user(val, &((u32 *)addr)[i]);
if (!bad)
p += sprintf(p, i == 0 ? "(%08x) " : "%08x ", val);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mark.rutland@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/arm64-ensure-__dump_instr-checks-addr_limit.patch