To clear a user buffer we cannot simply use memset, we have to use
clear_user(). With a virtio-mem device that registers a vmcore_cb and
has some logically unplugged memory inside an added Linux memory block,
I can easily trigger a BUG by copying the vmcore via "cp":
systemd[1]: Starting Kdump Vmcore Save Service...
kdump[420]: Kdump is using the default log level(3).
kdump[453]: saving to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/
kdump[458]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/
kdump[465]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt complete
kdump[467]: saving vmcore
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address:
00007f2374e01000
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
PGD
7a523067 P4D
7a523067 PUD
7a528067 PMD
7a525067 PTE
800000007048f867
Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 PID: 468 Comm: cp Not tainted 5.15.0+ #6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.14.0-27-g64f37cc530f1-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:read_from_oldmem.part.0.cold+0x1d/0x86
Code: ff ff ff e8 05 ff fe ff e9 b9 e9 7f ff 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 38 3b 60 82 e8 f1 fe fe ff 83 fd 08 72 3c 49 8d 7d 08 4c 89 e9 89 e8 <49> c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 49 c7 44 05 f8 00 00 00 00 48 83 e7 f81
RSP: 0018:
ffffc9000073be08 EFLAGS:
00010212
RAX:
0000000000001000 RBX:
00000000002fd000 RCX:
00007f2374e01000
RDX:
0000000000000001 RSI:
00000000ffffdfff RDI:
00007f2374e01008
RBP:
0000000000001000 R08:
0000000000000000 R09:
ffffc9000073bc50
R10:
ffffc9000073bc48 R11:
ffffffff829461a8 R12:
000000000000f000
R13:
00007f2374e01000 R14:
0000000000000000 R15:
ffff88807bd421e8
FS:
00007f2374e12140(0000) GS:
ffff88807f000000(0000) knlGS:
0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
0000000080050033
CR2:
00007f2374e01000 CR3:
000000007a4aa000 CR4:
0000000000350eb0
Call Trace:
read_vmcore+0x236/0x2c0
proc_reg_read+0x55/0xa0
vfs_read+0x95/0x190
ksys_read+0x4f/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Some x86-64 CPUs have a CPU feature called "Supervisor Mode Access
Prevention (SMAP)", which is used to detect wrong access from the kernel
to user buffers like this: SMAP triggers a permissions violation on
wrong access. In the x86-64 variant of clear_user(), SMAP is properly
handled via clac()+stac().
To fix, properly use clear_user() when we're dealing with a user buffer.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211112092750.6921-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes:
997c136f518c ("fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
nr_bytes = count;
/* If pfn is not ram, return zeros for sparse dump files */
- if (!pfn_is_ram(pfn))
- memset(buf, 0, nr_bytes);
- else {
+ if (!pfn_is_ram(pfn)) {
+ tmp = 0;
+ if (!userbuf)
+ memset(buf, 0, nr_bytes);
+ else if (clear_user(buf, nr_bytes))
+ tmp = -EFAULT;
+ } else {
if (encrypted)
tmp = copy_oldmem_page_encrypted(pfn, buf,
nr_bytes,
else
tmp = copy_oldmem_page(pfn, buf, nr_bytes,
offset, userbuf);
-
- if (tmp < 0) {
- up_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
- return tmp;
- }
}
+ if (tmp < 0) {
+ up_read(&vmcore_cb_rwsem);
+ return tmp;
+ }
+
*ppos += nr_bytes;
count -= nr_bytes;
buf += nr_bytes;