linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: drmem: avoid NULL pointer dereference when drmem is unavailable

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Message-Id: <48YT3L2PZzz9sSV@ozlabs.org>
Date:   Fri,  6 Mar 2020 11:27:42 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@...e.cz>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.cz>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: drmem: avoid NULL pointer dereference when drmem is unavailable

On Fri, 2020-01-31 at 13:28:29 UTC, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 
> From: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@...e.cz>
> 
> In guests without hotplugagble memory drmem structure is only zero
> initialized. Trying to manipulate DLPAR parameters results in a crash.
> 
> $ echo "memory add count 1" > /sys/kernel/dlpar
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
> Modules linked in: af_packet(E) rfkill(E) nvram(E) vmx_crypto(E)
> gf128mul(E) e1000(E) virtio_balloon(E) rtc_generic(E) crct10dif_vpmsum(E)
> btrfs(E) blake2b_generic(E) libcrc32c(E) xor(E) raid6_pq(E) virtio_rng(E)
> virtio_blk(E) ohci_pci(E) ehci_pci(E) ohci_hcd(E) ehci_hcd(E)
> crc32c_vpmsum(E) usbcore(E) virtio_pci(E) virtio_ring(E) virtio(E) sg(E)
> dm_multipath(E) dm_mod(E) scsi_dh_rdac(E) scsi_dh_emc(E) scsi_dh_alua(E)
> scsi_mod(E)
> CPU: 1 PID: 4114 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Tainted: G            E     5.5.0-rc6-2-default #1
> NIP:  c0000000000ff294 LR: c0000000000ff248 CTR: 0000000000000000
> REGS: c0000000fb9d3880 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G            E      (5.5.0-rc6-2-default)
> MSR:  8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 28242428  XER: 20000000
> CFAR: c0000000009a6c10 DAR: 0000000000000010 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0
> GPR00: c0000000000ff248 c0000000fb9d3b10 c000000001682e00 0000000000000033
> GPR04: c0000000ff30bf90 c0000000ff394800 0000000000005110 ffffffffffffffe8
> GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000fe1c0000 0000000000000000
> GPR12: 0000000000002200 c00000003fffee00 0000000000000000 000000011cbc37c0
> GPR16: 000000011cb27ed0 0000000000000000 000000011cb6dd10 0000000000000000
> GPR20: 000000011cb7db28 000001003ce035f0 000000011cbc7828 000000011cbc6c70
> GPR24: 000001003cf01210 0000000000000000 c0000000ffade4e0 c000000002d7216b
> GPR28: 0000000000000001 c000000002d78560 0000000000000000 c0000000015458d0
> NIP [c0000000000ff294] dlpar_memory+0x6e4/0xd00
> LR [c0000000000ff248] dlpar_memory+0x698/0xd00
> Call Trace:
> [c0000000fb9d3b10] [c0000000000ff248] dlpar_memory+0x698/0xd00 (unreliable)
> [c0000000fb9d3ba0] [c0000000000f5990] handle_dlpar_errorlog+0xc0/0x190
> [c0000000fb9d3c10] [c0000000000f5c58] dlpar_store+0x198/0x4a0
> [c0000000fb9d3cd0] [c000000000c4cb00] kobj_attr_store+0x30/0x50
> [c0000000fb9d3cf0] [c0000000005a37b4] sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x90
> [c0000000fb9d3d10] [c0000000005a2c90] kernfs_fop_write+0x1b0/0x290
> [c0000000fb9d3d60] [c0000000004a2bec] __vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
> [c0000000fb9d3d80] [c0000000004a6560] vfs_write+0xd0/0x260
> [c0000000fb9d3dd0] [c0000000004a69ac] ksys_write+0xdc/0x130
> [c0000000fb9d3e20] [c00000000000b478] system_call+0x5c/0x68
> Instruction dump:
> ebc90000 1ce70018 38e7ffe8 7cfe3a14 7fbe3840 419dff14 fb610068 7fc9f378
> 39000000 4800000c 60000000 4195fef4 <81490010> 39290018 38c80001 7ea93840
> ---[ end trace cc2dd8152608c295 ]---
> 
> Taking closer look at the code, I can see that for_each_drmem_lmb is a
> macro expanding into `for (lmb = &drmem_info->lmbs[0]; lmb <=
> &drmem_info->lmbs[drmem_info->n_lmbs - 1]; lmb++)`. When drmem_info->lmbs
> is NULL, the loop would iterate through the whole address range if it
> weren't stopped by the NULL pointer dereference on the next line.
> 
> This patch aligns for_each_drmem_lmb and for_each_drmem_lmb_in_range macro
> behavior with the common C semantics, where the end marker does not belong
> to the scanned range, and alters get_lmb_range() semantics. As a side
> effect, the wraparound observed in the crash is prevented.
> 
> Fixes: 6c6ea53725b3 ("powerpc/mm: Separate ibm, dynamic-memory data from DT format")
> Cc: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.cz>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a83836dbc53e96f13fec248ecc201d18e1e3111d

cheers