On 04/01/17 09:22, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 09:50:52PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> This reverts commit 148a1bc84398039e2b96ff78678c4d9a67f81452.
>>
>> This commit was intended to fix a problem, but it did not do so
>> correctly, resulting in /dev/kmem being entirely broken. So, revert this
>> commit until a different solution is found. The following PoC shows
>> breakage bisecting to this commit. On working systems, it returns 0 and
>> prints the last message. On broken systems containing this commit, it
>> exits returning EIO.
>>
>> #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
>> #include <unistd.h>
>> #include <fcntl.h>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <string.h>
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>> #include <errno.h>
>> #include <sys/types.h>
>> #include <sys/socket.h>
>> #include <netinet/in.h>
>>
>> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>> {
>> int fd, sock;
>> FILE *f;
>> char line[256], *ptr;
>> unsigned long addr = 0;
>> struct sockaddr_in saddr = { .sin_family = AF_INET, .sin_port = 55193 };
>>
>> sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
>> if (sock < 0) {
>> perror("socket");
>> return errno;
>> }
>> if (bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&saddr, sizeof(saddr)) < 0) {
>> perror("bind");
>> return errno;
>> }
>> f = fopen("/proc/net/udp", "r");
>> if (!f) {
>> perror("fopen(/proc/net/udp)");
>> return errno;
>> }
>> if (!fgets(line, 256, f) || !fgets(line, 256, f)) {
>> perror("fgets");
>> return errno;
>> }
>> fclose(f);
>> ptr = line + strlen(line) - 1;
>> while (*--ptr == ' ');
>> while (*--ptr != ' ');
>> while (*(--ptr - 1) != ' ');
>> addr = strtoul(ptr, NULL, 16);
>>
>> printf("Attempting to read from skbuff at 0x%lx\n", addr);
>>
>> fd = open("/dev/kmem", O_RDONLY);
>> if (fd < 0) {
>> perror("open(/dev/kmem)");
>> return errno;
>> }
>> if (lseek(fd, addr, SEEK_SET) == (off_t)-1) {
>> perror("lseek");
>> return errno;
>> }
>> if (read(fd, &addr, sizeof(addr)) != sizeof(addr)) {
>> perror("read");
>> return errno;
>> }
>>
>> printf("It worked, reading the value %lx!\n", addr);
>> close(fd);
>> close(sock);
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Robin Murphy <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Kefeng Wang <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> drivers/char/mem.c | 6 ------
>> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
>> index 5bb1985ec484..a33163dbb913 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/mem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
>> @@ -381,9 +381,6 @@ static ssize_t read_kmem(struct file *file, char __user
>> *buf,
>> char *kbuf; /* k-addr because vread() takes vmlist_lock rwlock */
>> int err = 0;
>>
>> - if (!pfn_valid(PFN_DOWN(p)))
>> - return -EIO;
>> -
>> read = 0;
>> if (p < (unsigned long) high_memory) {
>> low_count = count;
>> @@ -512,9 +509,6 @@ static ssize_t write_kmem(struct file *file, const char
>> __user *buf,
>> char *kbuf; /* k-addr because vwrite() takes vmlist_lock rwlock */
>> int err = 0;
>>
>> - if (!pfn_valid(PFN_DOWN(p)))
>> - return -EIO;
>> -
>> if (p < (unsigned long) high_memory) {
>> unsigned long to_write = min_t(unsigned long, count,
>> (unsigned long)high_memory - p);
>
> Ick, I hate /dev/kmem...
>
> Robin and Kefeng, any comments? Reverting seems correct at this point
> in time, any objection?
Having spotted the (embarassingly obvious) problem, the real fix is an
even simpler two-liner. Patch incoming...
Robin.
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
