linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: fix crash in iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2020 08:26:52 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:     johannes.berg@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Dieter Nützel 
        <Dieter@...tzel-hh.de>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: fix crash in iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger

Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz> wrote:

> The tlv passed to iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger comes from a loaded firmware
> file. The memory can be marked as read-only as firmware could be
> shared. In anyway, writing to this memory is not expected. So,
> iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger can crash now:
> 
>   BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffae2c01bfa794
>   PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
>   PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
>   PGD 107d51067 P4D 107d51067 PUD 107d52067 PMD 659ad2067 PTE 8000000662298161
>   CPU: 2 PID: 161 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 5.7.0-3.gad96a07-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed (unreleased)
>   RIP: 0010:iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger+0x25/0x60 [iwlwifi]
>   Code: eb f2 0f 1f 00 66 66 66 66 90 83 7e 04 33 48 89 f8 44 8b 46 10 48 89 f7 76 40 41 8d 50 ff 83 fa 19 77 23 8b 56 20 85 d2 75 07 <c7> 46 20 ff ff ff ff 4b 8d 14 40 48 c1 e2 04 48 8d b4 10 00 05 00
>   RSP: 0018:ffffae2c00417ce8 EFLAGS: 00010246
>   RAX: ffff8f0522334018 RBX: ffff8f0522334018 RCX: ffffffffc0fc26c0
>   RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffae2c01bfa774 RDI: ffffae2c01bfa774
>   RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000001
>   R10: 0000000000000034 R11: ffffae2c01bfa77c R12: ffff8f0522334230
>   R13: 0000000001000009 R14: ffff8f0523fdbc00 R15: ffff8f051f395800
>   FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8f0527c80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>   CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>   CR2: ffffae2c01bfa794 CR3: 0000000389eba000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
>   Call Trace:
>    iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc+0x79/0x120 [iwlwifi]
>    iwl_parse_tlv_firmware.isra.0+0x57d/0x1550 [iwlwifi]
>    iwl_req_fw_callback+0x3f8/0x6a0 [iwlwifi]
>    request_firmware_work_func+0x47/0x90
>    process_one_work+0x1e3/0x3b0
>    worker_thread+0x46/0x340
>    kthread+0x115/0x140
>    ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
> 
> As can be seen, write bit is not set in the PTE. Read of
> trig->occurrences succeeds in iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger, but
> trig->occurrences = cpu_to_le32(-1); fails there, obviously.
> 
> This is likely because we (at SUSE) use compressed firmware and that is
> marked as RO after decompression (see fw_map_paged_buf).
> 
> Fix it by creating a temporary buffer in case we need to change the
> memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
> Reported-by: Dieter Nützel <Dieter@...tzel-hh.de>
> Tested-by: Dieter Nützel <Dieter@...tzel-hh.de>
> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
> Cc: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
> Cc: Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org

Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.

ea0cca61d628 iwlwifi: fix crash in iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11601365/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches