MIPS: uaccess: Take EVA into account in __copy_from_user()
authorJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Wed, 5 Aug 2015 15:41:38 +0000 (16:41 +0100)
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:55:24 +0000 (11:55 +0100)
commit6f06a2c45d8d714ea3b11a360b4a7191e52acaa4
treec3c55fe07e3a54127d4afa3a51643a8278da7585
parent5dc62fdd8383afbd2faca6b6e6ea1052b45b0124
MIPS: uaccess: Take EVA into account in __copy_from_user()

When EVA is in use, __copy_from_user() was unconditionally using the EVA
instructions to read the user address space, however this can also be
used for kernel access. If the address isn't a valid user address it
will cause an address error or TLB exception, and if it is then user
memory may be read instead of kernel memory.

For example in the following stack trace from Linux v3.10 (changes since
then will prevent this particular one still happening) kernel_sendmsg()
set the user address limit to KERNEL_DS, and tcp_sendmsg() goes on to
use __copy_from_user() with a kernel address in KSeg0.

[<8002d434>] __copy_fromuser_common+0x10c/0x254
[<805710e0>] tcp_sendmsg+0x5f4/0xf00
[<804e8e3c>] sock_sendmsg+0x78/0xa0
[<804e8f28>] kernel_sendmsg+0x24/0x38
[<804ee0f8>] sock_no_sendpage+0x70/0x7c
[<8017c820>] pipe_to_sendpage+0x80/0x98
[<8017c6b0>] splice_from_pipe_feed+0xa8/0x198
[<8017cc54>] __splice_from_pipe+0x4c/0x8c
[<8017e844>] splice_from_pipe+0x58/0x78
[<8017e884>] generic_splice_sendpage+0x20/0x2c
[<8017d690>] do_splice_from+0xb4/0x110
[<8017d710>] direct_splice_actor+0x24/0x30
[<8017d394>] splice_direct_to_actor+0xd8/0x208
[<8017d51c>] do_splice_direct+0x58/0x7c
[<8014eaf4>] do_sendfile+0x1dc/0x39c
[<8014f82c>] SyS_sendfile+0x90/0xf8

Add the eva_kernel_access() check in __copy_from_user() like the one in
copy_from_user().

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10843/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h