This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hwrng: pseries - port to new read API and fix stack corruption
to the 3.17-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:
hwrng-pseries-port-to-new-read-api-and-fix-stack-corruption.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 24c65bc7037e7d0f362c0df70d17dd72ee64b8b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 07:50:11 +0100
Subject: hwrng: pseries - port to new read API and fix stack corruption
From: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 24c65bc7037e7d0f362c0df70d17dd72ee64b8b9 upstream.
The add_early_randomness() function in drivers/char/hw_random/core.c passes
a 16-byte buffer to pseries_rng_data_read(). Unfortunately, plpar_hcall()
returns four 64-bit values and trashes 16 bytes on the stack.
This bug has been lying around for a long time. It got unveiled by:
commit d3cc7996473a7bdd33256029988ea690754e4e2a
Author: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jul 10 15:42:34 2014 +0530
hwrng: fetch randomness only after device init
It may trig a oops while loading or unloading the pseries-rng module for both
PowerVM and PowerKVM guests.
This patch does two things:
- pass an intermediate well sized buffer to plpar_hcall(). This is acceptalbe
since we're not on a hot path.
- move to the new read API so that we know the return buffer size for sure.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c
@@ -25,18 +25,21 @@
#include <asm/vio.h>
-static int pseries_rng_data_read(struct hwrng *rng, u32 *data)
+static int pseries_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *data, size_t max, bool wait)
{
+ u64 buffer[PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE];
+ size_t size = max < 8 ? max : 8;
int rc;
- rc = plpar_hcall(H_RANDOM, (unsigned long *)data);
+ rc = plpar_hcall(H_RANDOM, (unsigned long *)buffer);
if (rc != H_SUCCESS) {
pr_err_ratelimited("H_RANDOM call failed %d\n", rc);
return -EIO;
}
+ memcpy(data, buffer, size);
/* The hypervisor interface returns 64 bits */
- return 8;
+ return size;
}
/**
@@ -55,7 +58,7 @@ static unsigned long pseries_rng_get_des
static struct hwrng pseries_rng = {
.name = KBUILD_MODNAME,
- .data_read = pseries_rng_data_read,
+ .read = pseries_rng_read,
};
static int __init pseries_rng_probe(struct vio_dev *dev,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.17/hwrng-pseries-port-to-new-read-api-and-fix-stack-corruption.patch
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