[PATCH] arm64: add sentinel to kpti_safe_list

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Apr 24 03:19:55 PDT 2018


On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 05:19:38PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 23/04/18 11:41, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > We're missing a sentinel entry in kpti_safe_list. Thus is_midr_in_range_list()
> > can walk past the end of kpti_safe_list. Depending on the contents of memory,
> > this could erroneously match a CPU's MIDR, cause a data abort, or other bad
> > outcomes.
> > 
> > Add the sentinel entry to avoid this.
> > 
> > Fixes: be5b299830c63ed7 ("arm64: capabilities: Add support for checks based on a list of MIDRs")
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> > Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
> > Tested-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> > ---
> >   arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 1 +
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > As discussesd in [1].
> > 
> > Mark.
> > 
> > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/97d99ad9-c5cf-a4d2-126a-2b39ffead0b3@web.de
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > index 536d572e5596..9d1b06d67c53 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > @@ -868,6 +868,7 @@ static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
> >   	static const struct midr_range kpti_safe_list[] = {
> >   		MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CAVIUM_THUNDERX2),
> >   		MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_BRCM_VULCAN),
> > +		{ /* sentinel */ }
> >   	};
> >   	char const *str = "command line option";
> 
> Thanks for the report and the fix.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>

Cheers!

Catalin, are you happy to pick this up as a fix for -rc3?

Thanks,
Mark.



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