From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reinette.chatre@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 3/3] x86/sgx: Add xa_store_range() return value check in sgx_setup_epc_section()
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 01:21:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yzyx5333eIuX0zaT@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c02b60d3b92469a2ccfc0780e974d29da578be73.1664834225.git.kai.huang@intel.com>
On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 11:04:29AM +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
> In sgx_setup_epc_section(), xa_store_range() is called to store EPC
> pages' owner section to an Xarray using physical addresses of those EPC
> pages as index. Currently, the return value of xa_store_range() is not
> checked, but actually it can fail (i.e. due to -ENOMEM).
>
> Not checking the return value of xa_store_range() would result in the
> EPC section being used by SGX driver (and KVM SGX guests), but part or
> all of its EPC pages not being handled by the memory failure handling of
> EPC page. Such inconsistency should be avoided, even at the cost that
> this section won't be used by the kernel.
>
> Add the missing check of the return value of xa_store_range(), and when
> it fails, clean up and fail to initialize the EPC section.
>
> Fixes: 40e0e7843e23 ("x86/sgx: Add infrastructure to identify SGX EPC pages")
> Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
This needs:
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.17+
Dave, can you pick this independently of rest of the patch set
(unless ofc you have change suggestions)?
BR, Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-04 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-03 22:04 [PATCH 0/3] Minor improvements to sgx_init() Kai Huang
2022-10-03 22:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/sgx: Start the ksgxd() at the end of sgx_init() Kai Huang
2022-10-03 22:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/sgx: Only run the reclaimer when the native SGX driver is enabled Kai Huang
2022-10-03 22:04 ` [RESEND PATCH 3/3] x86/sgx: Add xa_store_range() return value check in sgx_setup_epc_section() Kai Huang
2022-10-04 22:21 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2022-10-04 22:42 ` Huang, Kai
2022-11-01 2:41 ` Huang, Kai
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