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* [PATCH] arm64: add sentinel to kpti_safe_list
@ 2018-04-23 10:41 Mark Rutland
  2018-04-23 16:19 ` Suzuki K Poulose
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mark Rutland @ 2018-04-23 10:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

We're missing a sentinel entry in kpti_safe_list. Thus is_midr_in_range_list()
can walk past the end of kpti_safe_list. Depending on the contents of memory,
this could erroneously match a CPU's MIDR, cause a data abort, or other bad
outcomes.

Add the sentinel entry to avoid this.

Fixes: be5b299830c63ed7 ("arm64: capabilities: Add support for checks based on a list of MIDRs")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Tested-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

As discussesd in [1].

Mark.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/97d99ad9-c5cf-a4d2-126a-2b39ffead0b3 at web.de

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 536d572e5596..9d1b06d67c53 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -868,6 +868,7 @@ static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
 	static const struct midr_range kpti_safe_list[] = {
 		MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CAVIUM_THUNDERX2),
 		MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_BRCM_VULCAN),
+		{ /* sentinel */ }
 	};
 	char const *str = "command line option";
 
-- 
2.11.0

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