cxgb4: do not dma memory off of the stack

PATCH Superseded Greg KH 3 participants 4 messages Oct 1, 2019 – Oct 4, 2019

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InfiniBand CXGB4 iWARP RNIC driver (IW_CXGB4)

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Greg KH

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2019-10-01 15:39 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 cxgb4: do not dma memory off of the stack

Nicolas pointed out that the cxgb4 driver is doing dma off of the stack, which is generally considered a very bad thing. On some architectures it could be a security problem, but odds are none of them actually run this driver, so it's just a "normal" bug.

Resolve this by allocating the memory for a message off of the heap instead of the stack. kmalloc() always will give us a proper memory location that DMA will work correctly from.

Reported-by Nicolas Waisman <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---

Note, test-built only, I don't have this hardware to actually run this code at all.

drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c +16 ~~-11~~

index aa772ee0706f..b2bd3de81dcd 100644
@@ -275,13 +275,17 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 			   struct sk_buff *skb, struct c4iw_wr_wait *wr_waitp)
 {
 	int err;
-	struct fw_ri_tpte tpt;
+	struct fw_ri_tpte *tpt;
 	u32 stag_idx;
 	static atomic_t key;
 
 	if (c4iw_fatal_error(rdev))
 		return -EIO;
 
+	tpt = kmalloc(sizeof(*tpt), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!tpt)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	stag_state = stag_state > 0;
 	stag_idx = (*stag) >> 8;

@@ -305,28 +309,28 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 
 	/* write TPT entry */
 	if (reset_tpt_entry)
-		memset(&tpt, 0, sizeof(tpt));
+		memset(tpt, 0, sizeof(*tpt));
 	else {
-		tpt.valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
+		tpt->valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_V((*stag & FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_M)) |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGSTATE_V(stag_state) |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGTYPE_V(type) | FW_RI_TPTE_PDID_V(pdid));
-		tpt.locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
+		tpt->locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
 			(bind_enabled ? FW_RI_TPTE_MWBINDEN_F : 0) |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_ADDRTYPE_V((zbva ? FW_RI_ZERO_BASED_TO :
 						      FW_RI_VA_BASED_TO))|
 			FW_RI_TPTE_PS_V(page_size));
-		tpt.nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
+		tpt->nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
 			FW_RI_TPTE_PBLADDR_V(PBL_OFF(rdev, pbl_addr)>>3));
-		tpt.len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
-		tpt.va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
-		tpt.va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
-		tpt.dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
-		tpt.len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
+		tpt->len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
+		tpt->va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
+		tpt->va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
+		tpt->dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
+		tpt->len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
 	}
 	err = write_adapter_mem(rdev, stag_idx +
 				(rdev->lldi.vr->stag.start >> 5),
-				sizeof(tpt), &tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
+				sizeof(*tpt), tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
 
 	if (reset_tpt_entry) {
 		c4iw_put_resource(&rdev->resource.tpt_table, stag_idx);

@@ -334,6 +338,7 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 		rdev->stats.stag.cur -= 32;
 		mutex_unlock(&rdev->stats.lock);
 	}
+	kfree(tpt);
 	return err;
 }

Greg KH

author

2019-10-01 16:56 UTC #1 lore raw

PATCH v2 1/1 cxgb4: do not dma memory off of the stack

Resolve this by allocating the memory for a message off of the heap instead of the stack. kmalloc() always will give us a proper memory location that DMA will work correctly from.

Reported-by Nicolas Waisman <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
v2: clean up memory on error case, pointed out by Nicolas
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Test-built only, I don't have this hardware to actually run this code at all.

drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c +17 ~~-11~~

index aa772ee0706f..35c284af574d 100644
@@ -275,13 +275,17 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 			   struct sk_buff *skb, struct c4iw_wr_wait *wr_waitp)
 {
 	int err;
-	struct fw_ri_tpte tpt;
+	struct fw_ri_tpte *tpt;
 	u32 stag_idx;
 	static atomic_t key;
 
 	if (c4iw_fatal_error(rdev))
 		return -EIO;
 
+	tpt = kmalloc(sizeof(*tpt), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!tpt)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	stag_state = stag_state > 0;
 	stag_idx = (*stag) >> 8;

@@ -291,6 +295,7 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 			mutex_lock(&rdev->stats.lock);
 			rdev->stats.stag.fail++;
 			mutex_unlock(&rdev->stats.lock);
+			kfree(tpt);
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 		mutex_lock(&rdev->stats.lock);

@@ -305,28 +310,28 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 
 	/* write TPT entry */
 	if (reset_tpt_entry)
-		memset(&tpt, 0, sizeof(tpt));
+		memset(tpt, 0, sizeof(*tpt));
 	else {
-		tpt.valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
+		tpt->valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_V((*stag & FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_M)) |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGSTATE_V(stag_state) |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGTYPE_V(type) | FW_RI_TPTE_PDID_V(pdid));
-		tpt.locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
+		tpt->locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
 			(bind_enabled ? FW_RI_TPTE_MWBINDEN_F : 0) |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_ADDRTYPE_V((zbva ? FW_RI_ZERO_BASED_TO :
 						      FW_RI_VA_BASED_TO))|
 			FW_RI_TPTE_PS_V(page_size));
-		tpt.nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
+		tpt->nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
 			FW_RI_TPTE_PBLADDR_V(PBL_OFF(rdev, pbl_addr)>>3));
-		tpt.len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
-		tpt.va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
-		tpt.va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
-		tpt.dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
-		tpt.len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
+		tpt->len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
+		tpt->va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
+		tpt->va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
+		tpt->dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
+		tpt->len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
 	}
 	err = write_adapter_mem(rdev, stag_idx +
 				(rdev->lldi.vr->stag.start >> 5),
-				sizeof(tpt), &tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
+				sizeof(*tpt), tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
 
 	if (reset_tpt_entry) {
 		c4iw_put_resource(&rdev->resource.tpt_table, stag_idx);

@@ -334,6 +339,7 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 		rdev->stats.stag.cur -= 32;
 		mutex_unlock(&rdev->stats.lock);
 	}
+	kfree(tpt);
 	return err;
 }

Jason Gunthorpe

Applied

2019-10-04 18:16 UTC #2 lore raw

Quoted 11 lines · Greg KH

Nicolas pointed out that the cxgb4 driver is doing dma off of the stack, which is generally considered a very bad thing. On some architectures it could be a security problem, but odds are none of them actually run this driver, so it's just a "normal" bug.
Resolve this by allocating the memory for a message off of the heap instead of the stack. kmalloc() always will give us a proper memory location that DMA will work correctly from.
Reported-by Nicolas Waisman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Applied to for-rc, thanks

Jason

Potnuri Bharat Teja

maintainer Tested-by on v1 1/1

2019-10-03 17:04 UTC #3 lore raw

In reply to Greg KH

Quoted 9 lines · Greg KH

Nicolas pointed out that the cxgb4 driver is doing dma off of the stack, which is generally considered a very bad thing. On some architectures it could be a security problem, but odds are none of them actually run this driver, so it's just a "normal" bug.
Resolve this by allocating the memory for a message off of the heap instead of the stack. kmalloc() always will give us a proper memory location that DMA will work correctly from.

Quoted 7 lines

Reported-by Nicolas Waisman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
Note, test-built only, I don't have this hardware to actually run this code at all.

Thanks for the patch.
Tests with HW ran fine.

Tested-by Potnuri Bharat Teja <[email protected]>

Quoted 71 lines

drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c +16 ~~-11~~

index aa772ee0706f..b2bd3de81dcd 100644
@@ -275,13 +275,17 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 			   struct sk_buff *skb, struct c4iw_wr_wait *wr_waitp)
 {
 	int err;
-	struct fw_ri_tpte tpt;
+	struct fw_ri_tpte *tpt;
 	u32 stag_idx;
 	static atomic_t key;
 
 	if (c4iw_fatal_error(rdev))
 		return -EIO;
 
+	tpt = kmalloc(sizeof(*tpt), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!tpt)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	stag_state = stag_state > 0;
 	stag_idx = (*stag) >> 8;

@@ -305,28 +309,28 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 
 	/* write TPT entry */
 	if (reset_tpt_entry)
-		memset(&tpt, 0, sizeof(tpt));
+		memset(tpt, 0, sizeof(*tpt));
 	else {
-		tpt.valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
+		tpt->valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_V((*stag & FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_M)) |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGSTATE_V(stag_state) |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGTYPE_V(type) | FW_RI_TPTE_PDID_V(pdid));
-		tpt.locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
+		tpt->locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
 			(bind_enabled ? FW_RI_TPTE_MWBINDEN_F : 0) |
 			FW_RI_TPTE_ADDRTYPE_V((zbva ? FW_RI_ZERO_BASED_TO :
 						      FW_RI_VA_BASED_TO))|
 			FW_RI_TPTE_PS_V(page_size));
-		tpt.nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
+		tpt->nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
 			FW_RI_TPTE_PBLADDR_V(PBL_OFF(rdev, pbl_addr)>>3));
-		tpt.len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
-		tpt.va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
-		tpt.va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
-		tpt.dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
-		tpt.len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
+		tpt->len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
+		tpt->va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
+		tpt->va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
+		tpt->dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
+		tpt->len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
 	}
 	err = write_adapter_mem(rdev, stag_idx +
 				(rdev->lldi.vr->stag.start >> 5),
-				sizeof(tpt), &tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
+				sizeof(*tpt), tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
 
 	if (reset_tpt_entry) {
 		c4iw_put_resource(&rdev->resource.tpt_table, stag_idx);

@@ -334,6 +338,7 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 		rdev->stats.stag.cur -= 32;
 		mutex_unlock(&rdev->stats.lock);
 	}
+	kfree(tpt);
 	return err;
 }