i386 ABI disagree with most other ABIs regarding alignment of data type larger than 4 bytes: on most ABIs a padding must be added at end of the structures, while it is not required on i386. So for most ABI struct c4iw_create_cq_resp get implicitly padded to be aligned on a 8 bytes multiple, while for i386, such padding is not added. Tool pahole could be used to find such implicit padding: $ pahole --anon_include \ --nested_anon_include \ --recursive \ --class_name c4iw_create_cq_resp \ drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.o Then, structure layout can be compared between i386 and x86_64: +++ obj-i386/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.o.pahole.txt 2014-03-28 11:43:05.547432195 +0100 --- obj-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.o.pahole.txt 2014-03-28 10:55:10.990133017 +0100 @@ -14,9 +13,8 @@ struct c4iw_create_cq_resp { __u32 size; /* 28 4 */ __u32 qid_mask; /* 32 4 */ - /* size: 36, cachelines: 1, members: 6 */ - /* last cacheline: 36 bytes */ + /* size: 40, cachelines: 1, members: 6 */ + /* padding: 4 */ + /* last cacheline: 40 bytes */ }; This ABI disagreement will make an x86_64 kernel try to write past the buffer provided by an i386 binary. When boundary check will be implemented, the x86_64 kernel will refuse to write past the i386 userspace provided buffer and the uverbs will fail. If the structure lay in memory on a page boundary and next page is not mapped, ib_copy_to_udata() will fail and the uverbs will fail. This patch adds an explicit padding at end of structure c4iw_create_cq_resp, and, like 92b0ca7cb149 ('IB/mlx5: Fix stack info leak in mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext()'), makes function c4iw_create_cq() not writting this padding field to userspace. This way, x86_64 kernel will be able to write struct c4iw_create_cq_resp as expected by unpatched and patched i386 libcxgb4. Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1399216475.git.ydroneaud@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: cfdda9d764362 ('RDMA/cxgb4: Add driver for Chelsio T4 RNIC') Fixes: e24a72a3302a6 ('RDMA/cxgb4: Fix four byte info leak in c4iw_create_cq()') Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cq.c | 8 ++++++-- drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/user.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cq.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cq.c index cfaa56ada189..5cb3cb4b4c25 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cq.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cq.c @@ -940,7 +940,6 @@ struct ib_cq *c4iw_create_cq(struct ib_device *ibdev, int entries, if (!mm2) goto err4; - memset(&uresp, 0, sizeof(uresp)); uresp.qid_mask = rhp->rdev.cqmask; uresp.cqid = chp->cq.cqid; uresp.size = chp->cq.size; @@ -951,7 +950,7 @@ struct ib_cq *c4iw_create_cq(struct ib_device *ibdev, int entries, uresp.gts_key = ucontext->key; ucontext->key += PAGE_SIZE; spin_unlock(&ucontext->mmap_lock); - ret = ib_copy_to_udata(udata, &uresp, sizeof uresp); + ret = ib_copy_to_udata(udata, &uresp, sizeof(uresp) - sizeof(uresp.reserved)); if (ret) goto err5; diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/user.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/user.h index 11ccd276e5d9..9b7534b5f07d 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/user.h +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/user.h @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct c4iw_create_cq_resp { __u32 cqid; __u32 size; __u32 qid_mask; + __u32 reserved; /* explicit padding (optional for i386) */ }; -- 1.9.0 -- 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