Re: [PATCH] cxgb4: do not dma memory off of the stack

[Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>]

On Tuesday, October 10/01/19, 2019 at 21:09:17 +0530, Greg KH wrote:
> Nicolas pointed out that the cxgb4 driver is doing dma off of the stack,
> which is generally considered a very bad thing.  On some architectures
> it could be a security problem, but odds are none of them actually run
> this driver, so it's just a "normal" bug.
> 
> Resolve this by allocating the memory for a message off of the heap
> instead of the stack.  kmalloc() always will give us a proper memory
> location that DMA will work correctly from.
> 
> Reported-by: Nicolas Waisman <nico@semmle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
> 
> Note, test-built only, I don't have this hardware to actually run this
> code at all.
Thanks for the patch.
Tests with HW ran fine.
Tested-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
> index aa772ee0706f..b2bd3de81dcd 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
> @@ -275,13 +275,17 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
>  			   struct sk_buff *skb, struct c4iw_wr_wait *wr_waitp)
>  {
>  	int err;
> -	struct fw_ri_tpte tpt;
> +	struct fw_ri_tpte *tpt;
>  	u32 stag_idx;
>  	static atomic_t key;
>  
>  	if (c4iw_fatal_error(rdev))
>  		return -EIO;
>  
> +	tpt = kmalloc(sizeof(*tpt), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!tpt)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
>  	stag_state = stag_state > 0;
>  	stag_idx = (*stag) >> 8;
>  
> @@ -305,28 +309,28 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
>  
>  	/* write TPT entry */
>  	if (reset_tpt_entry)
> -		memset(&tpt, 0, sizeof(tpt));
> +		memset(tpt, 0, sizeof(*tpt));
>  	else {
> -		tpt.valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
> +		tpt->valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
>  			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_V((*stag & FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_M)) |
>  			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGSTATE_V(stag_state) |
>  			FW_RI_TPTE_STAGTYPE_V(type) | FW_RI_TPTE_PDID_V(pdid));
> -		tpt.locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
> +		tpt->locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
>  			(bind_enabled ? FW_RI_TPTE_MWBINDEN_F : 0) |
>  			FW_RI_TPTE_ADDRTYPE_V((zbva ? FW_RI_ZERO_BASED_TO :
>  						      FW_RI_VA_BASED_TO))|
>  			FW_RI_TPTE_PS_V(page_size));
> -		tpt.nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
> +		tpt->nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
>  			FW_RI_TPTE_PBLADDR_V(PBL_OFF(rdev, pbl_addr)>>3));
> -		tpt.len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
> -		tpt.va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
> -		tpt.va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
> -		tpt.dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
> -		tpt.len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
> +		tpt->len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
> +		tpt->va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
> +		tpt->va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
> +		tpt->dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
> +		tpt->len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
>  	}
>  	err = write_adapter_mem(rdev, stag_idx +
>  				(rdev->lldi.vr->stag.start >> 5),
> -				sizeof(tpt), &tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
> +				sizeof(*tpt), tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
>  
>  	if (reset_tpt_entry) {
>  		c4iw_put_resource(&rdev->resource.tpt_table, stag_idx);
> @@ -334,6 +338,7 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
>  		rdev->stats.stag.cur -= 32;
>  		mutex_unlock(&rdev->stats.lock);
>  	}
> +	kfree(tpt);
>  	return err;
>  }
>