[PATCH v2 2/2] riscv/mm: Prevent kernel module to access user memory without uaccess routines
Eric Lin
tesheng at andestech.com
Thu Dec 3 01:48:26 EST 2020
We found this issue in an legacy out-of-tree kernel module
which didn't properly access user space pointer by get/put_user().
Such an illegal access loops in the page fault handler.
To resolve this, let it die here.
Signed-off-by: Eric Lin <tesheng at andestech.com>
Cc: Alan Kao <alankao at andestech.com>
---
arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
index 0bcfd0e1b39e..00884c1bac28 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -245,6 +245,11 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (user_mode(regs))
flags |= FAULT_FLAG_USER;
+ if (!user_mode(regs) && addr < TASK_SIZE &&
+ unlikely(!(regs->status & SR_SUM)))
+ die_kernel_fault("access to user memory without uaccess routines",
+ addr, regs);
+
perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, addr);
if (cause == EXC_STORE_PAGE_FAULT)
--
2.17.0
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