[PATCH] ath10k: prevent debugfs mmio access crash kernel

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Tue Jun 16 03:11:41 PDT 2015


Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> writes:

> It was possible to force an out of bounds MMIO
> read/write via debugfs. E.g. on QCA988X this could
> be triggered with:
>
>  echo 0x2080e0 | tee /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/*/ath10k/reg_addr
>  cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/*/ath10k/reg_value
>
>  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90001e080e0
>  IP: [<ffffffff8135c860>] ioread32+0x40/0x50
>  ...
>  Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffffa00d0c7f>] ? ath10k_pci_read32+0x4f/0x70 [ath10k_pci]
>   [<ffffffffa0080f50>] ath10k_reg_value_read+0x90/0xf0 [ath10k_core]
>   [<ffffffff8115c2c1>] ? handle_mm_fault+0xa91/0x1050
>   [<ffffffff81189758>] __vfs_read+0x28/0xe0
>   [<ffffffff812e4694>] ? security_file_permission+0x84/0xa0
>   [<ffffffff81189ce3>] ? rw_verify_area+0x53/0x100
>   [<ffffffff81189e1a>] vfs_read+0x8a/0x140
>   [<ffffffff8118acb9>] SyS_read+0x49/0xb0
>   [<ffffffff8104e39c>] ? trace_do_page_fault+0x3c/0xc0
>   [<ffffffff8196596e>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x71
>
> Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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