linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI hotplug: ibmphp: Add check to prevent reading beyond mapped area

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Date:	Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:09:12 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chandru Siddalingappa <chandru@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI hotplug: ibmphp: Add check to prevent reading
 beyond mapped area

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:20:27 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> While testing various randconfigs with ktest.pl, I hit the following panic:
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f7e54b03
> IP: [<c0d63409>] ibmphp_access_ebda+0x101/0x19bb
> 
> Adding printks, I found that the loop that reads the ebda blocks
> can move out of the mapped section.
> 
> ibmphp_access_ebda: start=f7e44c00 size=5120 end=f7e46000
> ibmphp_access_ebda: io_mem=f7e44d80 offset=384
> ibmphp_access_ebda: io_mem=f7e54b03 offset=65283
> 
> The start of the iomap was at f7e44c00 and had a size of 5120,
> making the end f7e46000. We start with an offset of 0x180 or
> 384, giving the first read at 0xf7e44d80. Reading that location
> yields 65283, which is much bigger than the 5120 that was allocated
> and makes the next read at f7e54b03 which is outside the mapped area.
> 
> Perhaps this is a bug in the driver, or buggy hardware, but this patch
> is more about not crashing my box on start up and just giving a warning
> if it detects this error.
> 
> This patch at least lets my box boot with just a warning.
> 
> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
> Cc: Chandru Siddalingappa <chandru@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c |    6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Applied to my for-linus branch, thanks.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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