[patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] hwrng: pseries - port to new read API and fix stack corruption

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From: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c
index b761459a3436..ab11c16352f8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/pseries-rng.c
@@ -26,18 +26,21 @@
 
 #define MODULE_NAME "pseries-rng"
 
-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;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ static unsigned long pseries_rng_get_desired_dma(struct vio_dev *vdev)
 
 static struct hwrng pseries_rng = {
 	.name		= MODULE_NAME,
-	.data_read	= pseries_rng_data_read,
+	.read		= pseries_rng_read,
 };
 
 static int __init pseries_rng_probe(struct vio_dev *dev,
-- 
2.1.3

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