This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get_reg()
to the 4.9-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:
fix-race-in-drivers-char-random.c-get_reg.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:49:21 +1200
Subject: fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get_reg()
From: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 9dfa7bba35ac08a63565d58c454dccb7e1bb0a08 ]
get_reg() can be reentered on architectures with prioritized interrupts
(m68k in this case), causing f->reg_index to be incremented after the
range check. Out of bounds memory access past the pt_regs struct results.
This will go mostly undetected unless access is beyond end of memory.
Prevent the race by disabling interrupts in get_reg().
Tested on m68k (Atari Falcon, and ARAnyM emulator).
Kudos to Geert Uytterhoeven for helping to trace this race.
Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1115,12 +1115,16 @@ static void add_interrupt_bench(cycles_t
static __u32 get_reg(struct fast_pool *f, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
__u32 *ptr = (__u32 *) regs;
+ unsigned long flags;
if (regs == NULL)
return 0;
+ local_irq_save(flags);
if (f->reg_idx >= sizeof(struct pt_regs) / sizeof(__u32))
f->reg_idx = 0;
- return *(ptr + f->reg_idx++);
+ ptr += f->reg_idx++;
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+ return *ptr;
}
void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq, int irq_flags)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/fix-race-in-drivers-char-random.c-get_reg.patch