linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/mm: Fix limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses

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Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:03:14 -0700
From:   Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Craig Bergstrom <craigb@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Sander Eikelenboom <linux@...elenboom.it>,
        Sean Young <sean@...s.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/mm: Fix limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid
 physical addresses


On 3/23/19 12:02 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Ralph,
> 
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, rcampbell@...dia.com wrote:
>> From: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
>>
>> If CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled, a read or write to /dev/mem can
>> trigger a VIRTUAL_BUG_ON() depending on the value of high_memory.
>> For example:
>>
>> read_mem()
>>    valid_phys_addr_range(p=401f1550, count=8)
>>      __pa(high_memory)
>>        __phys_addr(x=ffffc88000000000)
>>          // __START_KERNEL_map = ffffffff80000000
>>          // y = ffffc88000000000 - ffffffff80000000
>>          VIRTUAL_BUG_ON(phys_addr_valid(400000000000))
>>            // boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits=46
> 
> I have no idea why all the irrelevant information in this example would be
> helpful, but after extracting the meat I think I know what you want to say.
> 
>> Since by design high_memory is outside the range of valid physical
>> addresses, use the non-error checking version __pa_nodebug(high_memory).
> 
> high_memory is not outside the range of valid physical addresses by
> design. It's only outside when memory is populated right at the end of the
> physical address space.
> 
> So what you really want to say in the changelog is:
> 
>   valid_phys_addr_range() is used to sanity check the physical address range
>   of an operation, e.g. access to /dev/mem. It uses __pa(high_memory)
>   internally.
>   
>   If memory is populated at the end of the physical address space, then
>   __pa(high_memory) is outside of the physical address space because:
> 
>       high_memory = (void *)__va(max_pfn * PAGE_SIZE - 1) + 1;
> 
>   For the comparison in valid_phys_addr_range() this is not an issue, but if
>   CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled, __pa() maps to __phys_addr(), which
>   verifies that the resulting physical address is within the valid physical
>   address space of the CPU. So in the case that memory is populated at the
>   end of the physical address space, this is not true and triggers a
>   VIRTUAL_BUG_ON().
> 
>   Use ... instead, because ...
> 
>> Fixes: be62a32044061cb4a3b70a10598e093f1319102e ("x86/mm: Limit mmap() of
> 
> Please limit the sha1 to the first 12 characters.
> 
>> /dev/mem to valid physical addresses")
>>
> 
> No newline between Fixes and the rest please.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
> 

Thanks for the comments. I'll apply them and send a v2 when ready.

>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
>> @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ bool mmap_address_hint_valid(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
>>   /* Can we access it for direct reading/writing? Must be RAM: */
>>   int valid_phys_addr_range(phys_addr_t addr, size_t count)
>>   {
>> -	return addr + count <= __pa(high_memory);
>> +	return addr + count <= __pa_nodebug(high_memory);
> 
> This lacks a comment. Aside of that I think there is no point in using
> __pa(high_memory) here. This is all about the physical address range. So
> this can be simply expressed via:
> 
> 	return addr + count <= max_pfn * PAGE_SIZE;
> 
> which is much more obvious.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx

This looks OK to me for x86_64 but looking at arch/x86/mm/init_32.c,
initmem_init() sets high_memory based on highstart_pfn or max_low_pfn
depending on CONFIG_HIGHMEM. Would using max_pfn in this case work?