linux-kernel - Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes

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:	Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:39:02 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Cc:	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests
	exceeding the BAR sizes


* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com> wrote:

> [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes
> 
> Go through the iomem resource tree to check if any of the ioremap() requests
> span more than any slot in the iomem resource tree and do a WARN_ON() if we hit
> this check.
> 
> This will raise a red-flag, if some driver is mapping more than what
> is needed. And hopefully identify possible corruptions much earlier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>

applied to tip/core/resources, thanks Suresh.

one question:

> +	for (p = p->child; p ; p = r_next(NULL, p, &l)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * We can probably skip the resources with out
> +		 * IORESOURCE_IO attribute?
> +		 */
> +		if (p->start >= addr + size)
> +			continue;
> +		if (p->end < addr)
> +			continue;
> +		if (p->start <= addr && (p->end >= addr + size - 1))
> +			continue;
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "resource map sanity check conflict "
> +		       " 0x%llx 0x%llx 0x%llx 0x%llx %s\n",
> +		       addr, addr + size - 1, p->start, p->end, p->name);
> +		err = -1;
> +		break;

i think all the checks you added are precise to the byte and you allow 
all the sensible ioremaps: which nest fully inside a single resource - 
and you reject all the other partial overlap or multiple overlap 
scenarios.

One potential thing to check for would be whether addr+size overlaps a 
4GB boundary? That would almost always be a bug, and it could also cause 
problems with the checks above if resource_t is 32 bits. The ioremap 
code should already prevent it though.

	Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/