From: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
commit 39380b80d72723282f0ea1d1bbf2294eae45013e upstream.
Currently it's possible for broken (or malicious) userspace to flood a
kernel log indefinitely with messages a-la
Program dmidecode tried to access /dev/mem between f0000->100000
because range_is_allowed() is case of CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM being turned on
dumps this information each and every time devmem_is_allowed() fails.
Reportedly userspace that is able to trigger contignuous flow of these
messages exists.
It would be possible to rate limit this message, but that'd have a
questionable value; the administrator wouldn't get information about all
the failing accessess, so then the information would be both superfluous
and incomplete at the same time :)
Returning EPERM (which is what is actually happening) is enough indication
for userspace what has happened; no need to log this particular error as
some sort of special condition.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 5 +----
drivers/char/mem.c | 6 +-----
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index 6574388..7f0c8da 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -505,11 +505,8 @@ static inline int range_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn,
unsigned long size)
return 1;
while (cursor < to) {
- if (!devmem_is_allowed(pfn)) {
- printk(KERN_INFO "Program %s tried to access /dev/mem
between [mem %#010Lx-%#010Lx]\n",
- current->comm, from, to - 1);
+ if (!devmem_is_allowed(pfn))
return 0;
- }
cursor += PAGE_SIZE;
pfn++;
}
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 1ccbe94..598ece7 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -68,12 +68,8 @@ static inline int range_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn,
unsigned long size)
u64 cursor = from;
while (cursor < to) {
- if (!devmem_is_allowed(pfn)) {
- printk(KERN_INFO
- "Program %s tried to access /dev/mem between %Lx->%Lx.\n",
- current->comm, from, to);
+ if (!devmem_is_allowed(pfn))
return 0;
- }
cursor += PAGE_SIZE;
pfn++;
}
--
2.8.0.rc2.1.gbe9624a
