netdev - Re: Memory corruption with r8169 across several device revisions and kernels

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:13:46 +0100
From:   Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:     Oliver Freyermuth <o.freyermuth@...glemail.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory corruption with r8169 across several device revisions and
 kernels

Oliver Freyermuth <o.freyermuth@...glemail.com> :
[...]
> This looks like it could very well match the structure found in memory,
> so something would be broken related to rtl8169_do_counters, in the DMA
> transfer. 
> 
> Does this help - can I provide more info? I get the feeling this affects
> many tens of thousands of systems and just has been hidden due to network
> stats being read rarely... 

It helps. Can you try the snippet below ?

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
index 272c5962e4f7..8531b41e3397 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -2238,16 +2238,12 @@ static bool rtl8169_do_counters(struct net_device *dev, u32 counter_cmd)
 	bool ret;
 
 	RTL_W32(CounterAddrHigh, (u64)paddr >> 32);
+	RTL_R32(CounterAddrHigh);
 	cmd = (u64)paddr & DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
 	RTL_W32(CounterAddrLow, cmd);
 	RTL_W32(CounterAddrLow, cmd | counter_cmd);
 
-	ret = rtl_udelay_loop_wait_low(tp, &rtl_counters_cond, 10, 1000);
-
-	RTL_W32(CounterAddrLow, 0);
-	RTL_W32(CounterAddrHigh, 0);
-
-	return ret;
+	return rtl_udelay_loop_wait_low(tp, &rtl_counters_cond, 10, 1000);
 }
 
 static bool rtl8169_reset_counters(struct net_device *dev)