Patch "arm64: mm: avoid fdt_check_header() before the FDT is fully mapped" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "arm64: mm: avoid fdt_check_header() before the FDT is fully mapped" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm64: mm: avoid fdt_check_header() before the FDT is fully mapped

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm64-mm-avoid-fdt_check_header-before-the-fdt-is-fully-mapped.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 04a848106193b134741672f7e4e444b50c70b631 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 13:29:31 +0200
Subject: arm64: mm: avoid fdt_check_header() before the FDT is fully mapped

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

commit 04a848106193b134741672f7e4e444b50c70b631 upstream.

As reported by Zijun, the fdt_check_header() call in __fixmap_remap_fdt()
is not safe since it is not guaranteed that the FDT header is mapped
completely. Due to the minimum alignment of 8 bytes, the only fields we
can assume to be mapped are 'magic' and 'totalsize'.

Since the OF layer is in charge of validating the FDT image, and we are
only interested in making reasonably sure that the size field contains
a meaningful value, replace the fdt_check_header() call with an explicit
comparison of the magic field's value against the expected value.

Reported-by: Zijun Hu <zijun_hu@htc.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -652,9 +652,9 @@ void *__init fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_
 	/*
 	 * Check whether the physical FDT address is set and meets the minimum
 	 * alignment requirement. Since we are relying on MIN_FDT_ALIGN to be
-	 * at least 8 bytes so that we can always access the size field of the
-	 * FDT header after mapping the first chunk, double check here if that
-	 * is indeed the case.
+	 * at least 8 bytes so that we can always access the magic and size
+	 * fields of the FDT header after mapping the first chunk, double check
+	 * here if that is indeed the case.
 	 */
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(MIN_FDT_ALIGN < 8);
 	if (!dt_phys || dt_phys % MIN_FDT_ALIGN)
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ void *__init fixmap_remap_fdt(phys_addr_
 	create_mapping(round_down(dt_phys, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE), dt_virt_base,
 		       SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE, prot);
 
-	if (fdt_check_header(dt_virt) != 0)
+	if (fdt_magic(dt_virt) != FDT_MAGIC)
 		return NULL;
 
 	size = fdt_totalsize(dt_virt);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org are

queue-4.4/arm64-mm-avoid-fdt_check_header-before-the-fdt-is-fully-mapped.patch