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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: [1/2] ras: fix an off-by-one error in __find_elem()
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:28:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190416232833.GA17372@agluck-desk> (raw)

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:18:57PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> > The problem case occurs when we've seen enough distinct
> > errors that we have filled every entry, then we try to
> > look up a pfn that is larger that any seen before.
> >
> > The loop:
> >
> >         while (min < max) {
> >                 ...
> >         }
> >
> > will terminate with "min" set to MAX_ELEMS. Then we
> > execute:
> >
> >         this_pfn = PFN(ca->array[min]);
> >
> > which references beyond the end of the space allocated
> > for ca->array.
> 
> Exactly.

Hmmm. But can we ever really have this happen?  The call
sequence to get here looks like:


        mutex_lock(&ce_mutex);

        if (ca->n == MAX_ELEMS)
                WARN_ON(!del_lru_elem_unlocked(ca));

        ret = find_elem(ca, pfn, &to);

I.e. if the array was all the way full, we delete one element
before calling find_elem().  So when we get here:

static int __find_elem(struct ce_array *ca, u64 pfn, unsigned int *to)
{
        u64 this_pfn;
        int min = 0, max = ca->n;

The biggest value "max" can have is MAX_ELEMS-1


-Tony

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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ras: fix an off-by-one error in __find_elem()
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:28:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190416232833.GA17372@agluck-desk> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190416232833.QHlWjqU9OvQQdtAmPPIc2N0kCMglsf5JYyV9YczPyfY@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpWit6gHTEFPB5cN3XuHQjeR4mBSb03wRc1F44WEQfNH_w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:18:57PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> > The problem case occurs when we've seen enough distinct
> > errors that we have filled every entry, then we try to
> > look up a pfn that is larger that any seen before.
> >
> > The loop:
> >
> >         while (min < max) {
> >                 ...
> >         }
> >
> > will terminate with "min" set to MAX_ELEMS. Then we
> > execute:
> >
> >         this_pfn = PFN(ca->array[min]);
> >
> > which references beyond the end of the space allocated
> > for ca->array.
> 
> Exactly.

Hmmm. But can we ever really have this happen?  The call
sequence to get here looks like:


        mutex_lock(&ce_mutex);

        if (ca->n == MAX_ELEMS)
                WARN_ON(!del_lru_elem_unlocked(ca));

        ret = find_elem(ca, pfn, &to);

I.e. if the array was all the way full, we delete one element
before calling find_elem().  So when we get here:

static int __find_elem(struct ce_array *ca, u64 pfn, unsigned int *to)
{
        u64 this_pfn;
        int min = 0, max = ca->n;

The biggest value "max" can have is MAX_ELEMS-1


-Tony

             reply	other threads:[~2019-04-16 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-16 23:28 Luck, Tony [this message]
2019-04-16 23:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] ras: fix an off-by-one error in __find_elem() Luck, Tony
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-04-18 22:54 [1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-18 22:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-17 21:15 [1/2] " Luck, Tony
2019-04-17 21:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Luck, Tony
2019-04-17  2:37 [1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-17  2:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-17  2:31 [1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-17  2:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-17  1:53 [1/2] " Luck, Tony
2019-04-17  1:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Luck, Tony
2019-04-16 23:47 [1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16 23:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16 23:18 [1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16 23:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16 22:18 [1/2] " Luck, Tony
2019-04-16 22:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Luck, Tony
2019-04-16 18:06 [2/2] ras: close the race condition with timer Cong Wang
2019-04-16 18:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16 18:00 [2/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16 18:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16 17:42 [2/2] " Borislav Petkov
2019-04-16 17:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Borislav Petkov
2019-04-16 17:09 [2/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16 17:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16 17:01 [1/2] ras: fix an off-by-one error in __find_elem() Cong Wang
2019-04-16 17:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16  9:58 [2/2] ras: close the race condition with timer Borislav Petkov
2019-04-16  9:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Borislav Petkov
2019-04-16  9:07 [1/2] ras: fix an off-by-one error in __find_elem() Borislav Petkov
2019-04-16  9:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Borislav Petkov
2019-04-16  1:20 [2/2] ras: close the race condition with timer Cong Wang
2019-04-16  1:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Cong Wang
2019-04-16  1:20 [1/2] ras: fix an off-by-one error in __find_elem() Cong Wang
2019-04-16  1:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Cong Wang

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