riscv/mm: Prevent kernel module to access user memory without uaccess routines
authorEric Lin <tesheng@andestech.com>
Fri, 4 Dec 2020 05:42:59 +0000 (13:42 +0800)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Fri, 8 Jan 2021 01:19:19 +0000 (17:19 -0800)
We found this issue in an legacy out-of-tree kernel module
which didn't properly access user space pointer by get/put_user().
Such an illegal access loops in the page fault handler.
To resolve this, let it die here.

Signed-off-by: Eric Lin <tesheng@andestech.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
arch/riscv/mm/fault.c

index 0d5f06d..33d2841 100644 (file)
@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
        if (user_mode(regs))
                flags |= FAULT_FLAG_USER;
 
+       if (!user_mode(regs) && addr < TASK_SIZE &&
+                       unlikely(!(regs->status & SR_SUM)))
+               die_kernel_fault("access to user memory without uaccess routines",
+                               addr, regs);
+
        perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, addr);
 
        if (cause == EXC_STORE_PAGE_FAULT)