This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPICA: Namespace: fix operand cache leak
to the 4.4-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:
acpica-namespace-fix-operand-cache-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3b2d69114fefa474fca542e51119036dceb4aa6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:18:08 +0800
Subject: ACPICA: Namespace: fix operand cache leak
From: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 3b2d69114fefa474fca542e51119036dceb4aa6f upstream.
ACPICA commit a23325b2e583556eae88ed3f764e457786bf4df6
I found some ACPI operand cache leaks in ACPI early abort cases.
Boot log of ACPI operand cache leak is as follows:
>[ 0.174332] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
>[ 0.175504] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
>[ 0.176010] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
>[ 0.177032] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
>[ 0.178284] ACPI: SCI (IRQ16705) allocation failed
>[ 0.179352] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_ACQUIRED, Unable to install
System Control Interrupt handler (20160930/evevent-131)
>[ 0.180008] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
>[ 0.181125] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler
(20160930/evmisc-281)
>[ 0.184068] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-Operand: Slab cache still has
objects
>[ 0.185358] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc3 #2
>[ 0.186820] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
>[ 0.188000] Call Trace:
>[ 0.188000] ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x7d
>[ 0.188000] ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x224/0x230
>[ 0.188000] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x22/0x22
>[ 0.188000] ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0xd
>[ 0.188000] ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x3f/0x7b
>[ 0.188000] ? acpi_terminate+0x5/0xf
>[ 0.188000] ? acpi_init+0x288/0x32e
>[ 0.188000] ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
>[ 0.188000] ? video_setup+0x7a/0x7a
>[ 0.188000] ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1b0
>[ 0.188000] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x194/0x21a
>[ 0.188000] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
>[ 0.188000] ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
>[ 0.188000] ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
When early abort is occurred due to invalid ACPI information, Linux kernel
terminates ACPI by calling acpi_terminate() function. The function calls
acpi_ns_terminate() function to delete namespace data and ACPI operand cache
(acpi_gbl_module_code_list).
But the deletion code in acpi_ns_terminate() function is wrapped in
ACPI_EXEC_APP definition, therefore the code is only executed when the
definition exists. If the define doesn't exist, ACPI operand cache
(acpi_gbl_module_code_list) is leaked, and stack dump is shown in kernel log.
This causes a security threat because the old kernel (<= 4.9) shows memory
locations of kernel functions in stack dump, therefore kernel ASLR can be
neutralized.
To fix ACPI operand leak for enhancing security, I made a patch which
removes the ACPI_EXEC_APP define in acpi_ns_terminate() function for
executing the deletion code unconditionally.
Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/a23325b2
Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c | 23 +++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c
@@ -593,25 +593,20 @@ struct acpi_namespace_node *acpi_ns_vali
void acpi_ns_terminate(void)
{
acpi_status status;
+ union acpi_operand_object *prev;
+ union acpi_operand_object *next;
ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(ns_terminate);
-#ifdef ACPI_EXEC_APP
- {
- union acpi_operand_object *prev;
- union acpi_operand_object *next;
+ /* Delete any module-level code blocks */
- /* Delete any module-level code blocks */
-
- next = acpi_gbl_module_code_list;
- while (next) {
- prev = next;
- next = next->method.mutex;
- prev->method.mutex = NULL; /* Clear the Mutex (cheated) field */
- acpi_ut_remove_reference(prev);
- }
+ next = acpi_gbl_module_code_list;
+ while (next) {
+ prev = next;
+ next = next->method.mutex;
+ prev->method.mutex = NULL; /* Clear the Mutex (cheated) field */
+ acpi_ut_remove_reference(prev);
}
-#endif
/*
* Free the entire namespace -- all nodes and all objects
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kkamagui@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/acpica-namespace-fix-operand-cache-leak.patch