[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 169/206] cxl: Fix DAR check & use REGION_ID instead of opencoding

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Jun 9 21:16:18 UTC 2016


4.2.8-ckt12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 3b1dbfa14f97188ec33fdfc7acb66bea59a3bb21 upstream.

The current code will set _PAGE_USER to the access flags for any
fault address, because the ~ operation will be true for all address we
take a fault on. But setting _PAGE_USER also means that the fault will
be handled only if the page table have _PAGE_USER set. Hence there is
no security hole with the current code.

Now if it is an user space access, then the change in this patch really
don't have an impact because we have (!ctx->kernel) set true
and we take the if condition true.

Now kernel context created fault on an address in the kernel range
will result in a fault loop because we will not insert the
hash pte due to access and pte permission mismatch. This patch fix
the above issue.

Fixes: f204e0b8cedd ("cxl: Driver code for powernv PCIe based cards for userspace access")
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie at au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c
index 25a5418..e4080ce 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static void cxl_handle_page_fault(struct cxl_context *ctx,
 	access = _PAGE_PRESENT;
 	if (dsisr & CXL_PSL_DSISR_An_S)
 		access |= _PAGE_RW;
-	if ((!ctx->kernel) || ~(dar & (1ULL << 63)))
+	if ((!ctx->kernel) || (REGION_ID(dar) == USER_REGION_ID))
 		access |= _PAGE_USER;
 
 	if (dsisr & DSISR_NOHPTE)
-- 
2.7.4





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