Re: [RFC PATCH] arm64: don't vmap() invalid page

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Wed Jan 19 2022 - 04:55:26 EST


On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:53:54AM -0800, Yury Norov wrote:
> vmap() takes struct page *pages as one of arguments, and user may provide
> an invalid pointer, which would lead to DABT at address translation later.
> Currently, kernel checks the pages against NULL. In my case, however, the
> address was not NULL, and was big enough so that the hardware generated
> Address Size Abort.

Can you give an example of when this might happen? It sounds like you're
actually hitting this, so a backtrace would be nice.

I'm a bit confused as to when why we'd try to vmap() pages that we
didn't have a legitimate struct page for -- where did these addresses
come from?

It sounds like this is going wrong at a higher level, and we're passing
entirely bogus struct page pointers around. This seems like the sort of
thing DEBUG_VIRTUAL or similar should check when we initially generate
the struct page pointer.

Thanks,
Mark.

> Interestingly, this abort happens even if copy_from_kernel_nofault() is used,
> which is quite inconvenient for debugging purposes.
>
> This patch adds an arch_vmap_page_valid() helper into vmap() path, so that
> architectures may add arch-specific checks of the pointer passed into vmap.
>
> For arm64, if the page passed to vmap() corresponds to a physical address
> greater than maximum possible value as described in TCR_EL1.IPS register, the
> following table walk would generate Address Size Abort. Instead of creating
> the invalid mapping, kernel will return ERANGE in such situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/vmalloc.h | 7 ++++++
> mm/vmalloc.c | 8 +++++--
> 3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h
> index b9185503feae..e9d43ee019ad 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h
> @@ -4,6 +4,47 @@
> #include <asm/page.h>
> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>
> +static inline u64 pa_size(u64 ips)
> +{
> + switch (ips) {
> + case 0b000:
> + return 1UL << 32;
> + case 0b001:
> + return 1UL << 36;
> + case 0b010:
> + return 1UL << 40;
> + case 0b011:
> + return 1UL << 42;
> + case 0b100:
> + return 1UL << 44;
> + case 0b101:
> + return 1UL << 48;
> + case 0b110:
> + return 1UL << 52;
> + /* All other values */
> + default:
> + return 1UL << 52;
> + }
> +}
> +
> +#define arch_vmap_page_valid arch_vmap_page_valid
> +static inline int arch_vmap_page_valid(struct page *page)
> +{
> + u64 tcr, ips, paddr_size;
> +
> + if (!page)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + tcr = read_sysreg_s(SYS_TCR_EL1);
> + ips = (tcr & TCR_IPS_MASK) >> TCR_IPS_SHIFT;
> +
> + paddr_size = pa_size(ips);
> + if (page_to_phys(page) >= paddr_size)
> + return -ERANGE;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
>
> #define arch_vmap_pud_supported arch_vmap_pud_supported
> diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> index 6e022cc712e6..08b567d8bafc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
> @@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ static inline int arch_vmap_pte_supported_shift(unsigned long size)
> }
> #endif
>
> +#ifndef arch_vmap_page_valid
> +static inline int arch_vmap_page_valid(struct page *page)
> +{
> + return page ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> /*
> * Highlevel APIs for driver use
> */
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index d2a00ad4e1dd..ee0384405cdd 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -472,11 +472,15 @@ static int vmap_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> return -ENOMEM;
> do {
> struct page *page = pages[*nr];
> + int ret;
>
> if (WARN_ON(!pte_none(*pte)))
> return -EBUSY;
> - if (WARN_ON(!page))
> - return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + ret = arch_vmap_page_valid(page);
> + if (WARN_ON(ret))
> + return ret;
> +
> set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, mk_pte(page, prot));
> (*nr)++;
> } while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
> --
> 2.30.2
>