On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 12:45:32PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

Well, it fails kbuild testing, so can you try it again?

thanks,

greg k-h

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