[PATCH 2/2] arm64: fixmap: check idx is definitely valid

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Wed Mar 4 05:27:35 PST 2015


Fixmap indices are in the interval (FIX_HOLE, __end_of_fixed_addresses),
but in __set_fixmap we only check idx <= __end_of_fixed_addresses, and
therefore indices <= FIX_HOLE are erroneously accepted. If called with
such an idx, __set_fixmap may corrupt page tables outside of the fixmap
region.

This patch ensures that we validate the idx against both endpoints of
the interval.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index c6daaf6..c9267ac 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -627,10 +627,7 @@ void __set_fixmap(enum fixed_addresses idx,
 	unsigned long addr = __fix_to_virt(idx);
 	pte_t *pte;
 
-	if (idx >= __end_of_fixed_addresses) {
-		BUG();
-		return;
-	}
+	BUG_ON(idx <= FIX_HOLE || idx >= __end_of_fixed_addresses);
 
 	pte = fixmap_pte(addr);
 
-- 
1.9.1




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