linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 1/1] memory_hotplug: Add a bounds check to __add

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Date:   Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:21:51 +1000
From:   "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@....ibm.com>
To:     alastair@...ilva.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/1] memory_hotplug: Add a bounds check to __add_pages

From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>

On PowerPC, the address ranges allocated to OpenCAPI LPC memory
are allocated from firmware. These address ranges may be higher
than what older kernels permit, as we increased the maximum
permissable address in commit 4ffe713b7587
("powerpc/mm: Increase the max addressable memory to 2PB"). It is
possible that the addressable range may change again in the
future.

In this scenario, we end up with a bogus section returned from
__section_nr (see the discussion on the thread "mm: Trigger bug on
if a section is not found in __section_nr").

Adding a check here means that we fail early and have an
opportunity to handle the error gracefully, rather than rumbling
on and potentially accessing an incorrect section.

Further discussion is also on the thread ("powerpc: Perform a bounds
check in arch_add_memory")
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190827052047.31547-1-alastair@au1.ibm.com

Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index c73f09913165..1909607da640 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -278,6 +278,22 @@ static int check_pfn_span(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int check_hotplug_memory_addressable(unsigned long pfn,
+					    unsigned long nr_pages)
+{
+	const u64 max_addr = PFN_PHYS(pfn + nr_pages) - 1;
+
+	if (max_addr >> MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) {
+		const u64 max_allowed = (1ull << (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS + 1)) - 1;
+		WARN(1,
+		     "Hotplugged memory exceeds maximum addressable address, range=%#lx-%#lx, maximum=%#lx\n",
+		     PFN_PHYS(pfn), max_addr, max_allowed);
+		return -E2BIG;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * Reasonably generic function for adding memory.  It is
  * expected that archs that support memory hotplug will
@@ -291,6 +307,10 @@ int __ref __add_pages(int nid, unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
 	unsigned long nr, start_sec, end_sec;
 	struct vmem_altmap *altmap = restrictions->altmap;
 
+	err = check_hotplug_memory_addressable(pfn, nr_pages);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
 	if (altmap) {
 		/*
 		 * Validate altmap is within bounds of the total request
-- 
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