On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:37:49AM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> When borrowing the pfn_valid() check from mmap_kmem(), somebody managed

"sombody"?  :)

> to get physical and virtual addresses spectacularly muddled up, such
> that we've ended up with checks for one being the other. Whilst this
> does indeed prevent out-of-bounds accesses crashing, on most systems it
> also prevents the more desirable use-case of working at all ever.
> 
> Check the *virtual* offset correctly for what it is.
> 
> Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> Fixes: 148a1bc84398 ("drivers: char: mem: Check {read,write}_kmem() 
> addresses")
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/char/mem.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
> index 5bb1985ec484..bdc6a4018604 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/mem.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
> @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ 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)))
> +     if (!virt_addr_valid(p))
>               return -EIO;
>  
>       read = 0;
> @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ 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)))
> +     if (!virt_addr_valid(p))
>               return -EIO;
>  
>       if (p < (unsigned long) high_memory) {

Jason, can you verify this fixes your test case?

thanks,

greg k-h

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