netdev - Re: [PATCH] iwl: fix crash in iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc

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Message-ID: <11fc5db81237fb3383b1df327d2cd2e308c0e525.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:18:08 +0300
From:   Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:     johannes.berg@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dieter Nützel <Dieter@...tzel-hh.de>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...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] iwl: fix crash in iwl_dbg_tlv_alloc_trigger

On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 10:55 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz> writes:
> 
> > 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
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-dbg-tlv.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> 
> The prefix should be "iwlwifi: ", I can fix that.
> 
> Luca, should I take this to wireless-drivers?

Yeah, this looks good.  Thanks, Jiri!

And yes, Kalle, please apply it directly to w-d.  Thank you!

--
Cheers,
Luca.