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arm64: kernel: restrict /dev/mem read() calls to linear region
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When running lscpu on an AArch64 system that has SMBIOS version 2.0
tables, it will segfault in the following way:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff8000bfff0000
  pgd = ffff8000f9615000
  [ffff8000bfff0000] *pgd=0000000000000000
  Internal error: Oops: 96000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1284 Comm: lscpu Not tainted 4.11.0-rc3+ torvalds#103
  Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  task: ffff8000fa78e800 task.stack: ffff8000f9780000
  PC is at __arch_copy_to_user+0x90/0x220
  LR is at read_mem+0xcc/0x140

This is caused by the fact that lspci issues a read() on /dev/mem at the
offset where it expects to find the SMBIOS structure array. However, this
region is classified as EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICE_DATA (as per the UEFI spec),
and so it is omitted from the linear mapping.

So let's restrict /dev/mem read/write access to those areas that are
covered by the linear region.

Reported-by: Alexander Graf <[email protected]>
Fixes: 4dffbfc ("arm64/efi: mark UEFI reserved regions as MEMBLOCK_NOMAP")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored and gregkh committed Apr 13, 2018
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19 changes: 13 additions & 6 deletions arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c
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#include <linux/elf.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mman.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
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*/
int valid_phys_addr_range(phys_addr_t addr, size_t size)
{
if (addr < PHYS_OFFSET)
return 0;
if (addr + size > __pa(high_memory - 1) + 1)
return 0;

return 1;
/*
* Check whether addr is covered by a memory region without the
* MEMBLOCK_NOMAP attribute, and whether that region covers the
* entire range. In theory, this could lead to false negatives
* if the range is covered by distinct but adjacent memory regions
* that only differ in other attributes. However, few of such
* attributes have been defined, and it is debatable whether it
* follows that /dev/mem read() calls should be able traverse
* such boundaries.
*/
return memblock_is_region_memory(addr, size) &&
memblock_is_map_memory(addr);
}

/*
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