linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 02/25] powerpc/pseries: Fix alignment of PLPKS structures and buffers

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:39:05 +1100
From:   Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     ruscur@...sell.cc, bgray@...ux.ibm.com, nayna@...ux.ibm.com,
        gcwilson@...ux.ibm.com, gjoyce@...ux.ibm.com, brking@...ux.ibm.com,
        stefanb@...ux.ibm.com, sudhakar@...ux.ibm.com,
        erichte@...ux.ibm.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zohar@...ux.ibm.com, joel@....id.au,
        npiggin@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH v5 02/25] powerpc/pseries: Fix alignment of PLPKS structures and buffers

A number of structures and buffers passed to PKS hcalls have alignment
requirements, which could on occasion cause problems:

- Authorisation structures must be 16-byte aligned and must not cross a
  page boundary

- Label structures must not cross page boundaries

- Password output buffers must not cross page boundaries

To ensure correct alignment, we adjust the allocation size of each of
these structures/buffers to be the closest power of 2 that is at least the
size of the structure/buffer (since kmalloc() guarantees that an
allocation of a power of 2 size will be aligned to at least that size).

Reported-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@...ux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 2454a7af0f2a ("powerpc/pseries: define driver for Platform KeyStore")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>

---

v3: Merge plpks fixes and signed update series with secvar series

v4: Fix typo in commit message

    Move up in series (npiggin)

v5: Reword commit message to better explain alignment guarantee (mpe)
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
index 9e85b6d85b0b..a01cf2ff140a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ static int plpks_gen_password(void)
 	u8 *password, consumer = PKS_OS_OWNER;
 	int rc;
 
-	password = kzalloc(maxpwsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+	// The password must not cross a page boundary, so we align to the next power of 2
+	password = kzalloc(roundup_pow_of_two(maxpwsize), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!password)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -162,7 +163,9 @@ static struct plpks_auth *construct_auth(u8 consumer)
 	if (consumer > PKS_OS_OWNER)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
-	auth = kzalloc(struct_size(auth, password, maxpwsize), GFP_KERNEL);
+	// The auth structure must not cross a page boundary and must be
+	// 16 byte aligned. We align to the next largest power of 2
+	auth = kzalloc(roundup_pow_of_two(struct_size(auth, password, maxpwsize)), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!auth)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
@@ -196,7 +199,8 @@ static struct label *construct_label(char *component, u8 varos, u8 *name,
 	if (component && slen > sizeof(label->attr.prefix))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
-	label = kzalloc(sizeof(*label), GFP_KERNEL);
+	// The label structure must not cross a page boundary, so we align to the next power of 2
+	label = kzalloc(roundup_pow_of_two(sizeof(*label)), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!label)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-- 
2.39.1