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Message-ID: <dd30b476f0378a4ae4639ffff635e55093bd070c.camel@pengutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:07:58 +0100
From: Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>
To: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@...adex.com>,
Richard Zhu <hongxing.zhu@....com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
Krzysztof WilczyĆski <kw@...ux.com>,
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
Jason Liu <jason.hui.liu@....com>
Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI: imx6: Handle the abort from user-space
Am Freitag, dem 28.01.2022 um 09:29 +0100 schrieb Francesco Dolcini:
> From: Jason Liu <jason.hui.liu@....com>
>
> The driver install one hook to handle the external abort, but issue
> is that if the abort introduced from user space code, the following
> code unsigned long instr = *(unsigned long *)pc; which will created
> another data-abort(page domain fault) if CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN.
>
> The patch does not intent to use copy_from_user and then do the hack
> due to the security consideration. In fact, we can just return and
> report the external abort to user-space.
>
I'm not sure how userspace would be able to trigger this abort. Maybe
invalid access to a device cfg space via sysfs?
However the patch seems to do the right thing in that case.
Acked-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Liu <jason.hui.liu@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Zhu <hongxing.zhu@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@...adex.com>
> ---
> We have this patch from NXP downstream kernel [1] in our kernel branch [2]
> since a long time, to me it would make sense to upstream it. Any concern?
>
> [1] https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imxsupport/linux-imx/commit/?id=62dfb2fb953463dd1b6710567c9e174672a98f24
> [2] https://git.toradex.com/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=2b42547cf659f979be2defdff6a99f921b33d0f1
> ---
> drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c
> index 6974bd5aa116..6b178a29e253 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
> #include <linux/resource.h>
> #include <linux/signal.h>
> #include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <linux/uaccess.h>
> #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> #include <linux/reset.h>
> #include <linux/phy/phy.h>
> @@ -297,8 +298,15 @@ static int imx6q_pcie_abort_handler(unsigned long addr,
> unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> unsigned long pc = instruction_pointer(regs);
> - unsigned long instr = *(unsigned long *)pc;
> - int reg = (instr >> 12) & 15;
> + unsigned long instr;
> + int reg;
> +
> + /* if the abort from user-space, just return and report it */
> + if (user_mode(regs))
> + return 1;
> +
> + instr = *(unsigned long *)pc;
> + reg = (instr >> 12) & 15;
>
> /*
> * If the instruction being executed was a read,
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