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From: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@redhat.com>
To: kay@vrfy.org
Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com,
	alex.williamson@redhat.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	yuxiangl@marvell.com, yxlraid@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] udevadm-info: Don't access sysfs 'resource<N>' files
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:35:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130316213519.2974.38954.stgit@amt.stowe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130316213512.2974.17303.stgit@amt.stowe>

Sysfs includes entries to memory that backs a PCI device's BARs, both I/O
Port space and MMIO.  This memory regions correspond to the device's
internal status and control registers used to drive the device.

Accessing these registers from userspace such as "udevadm info
--attribute-walk --path=/sys/devices/..." does can not be allowed as
such accesses outside of the driver, even just reading, can yield
catastrophic consequences.

Udevadm-info skips parsing a specific set of sysfs entries including
'resource'.  This patch extends the set to include the additional
'resource<N>' entries that correspond to a PCI device's BARs.

Reported-by: Xiangliang Yu <yuxiangl@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@redhat.com>
---

 src/udevadm-info.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/udevadm-info.c b/src/udevadm-info.c
index ee9b59f..298acb5 100644
--- a/src/udevadm-info.c
+++ b/src/udevadm-info.c
@@ -37,13 +37,18 @@ static bool skip_attribute(const char *name)
                 "uevent",
                 "dev",
                 "modalias",
-                "resource",
                 "driver",
                 "subsystem",
                 "module",
         };
         unsigned int i;
 
+        /*
+         * Skip any sysfs 'resource' entries, including 'resource<N>' entries
+         * that correspond to a device's I/O Port or MMIO space backed BARs.
+         */
+        if (strncmp((const char *)name, "resource", sizeof("resource")-1) = 0)
+                return true;
         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(skip); i++)
                 if (strcmp(name, skip[i]) = 0)
                         return true;


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-16 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-16 21:35 [PATCH] udevadm-info: Don't access sysfs entries backing device I/O port space Myron Stowe
2013-03-16 21:35 ` Myron Stowe [this message]
2013-03-16 22:11   ` [PATCH] udevadm-info: Don't access sysfs 'resource<N>' files Greg KH
2013-03-16 22:55     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-03-16 23:50     ` Myron Stowe
2013-03-17  1:03       ` Greg KH
2013-03-17  4:11         ` Alex Williamson
2013-03-17  5:36           ` Greg KH
2013-03-17 13:38             ` Alex Williamson
2013-03-17 14:00               ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-17 14:20                 ` Myron Stowe
2013-03-17 14:29                   ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-17 14:36                     ` Myron Stowe
2013-03-17 14:43                       ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-18 16:24                 ` Alex Williamson
2013-03-18 16:41                   ` Greg KH
2013-03-18 16:51                     ` Alex Williamson
2013-03-18 17:20                       ` Bjørn Mork
2013-03-18 17:54                         ` Alex Williamson
2013-03-18 18:02                           ` Robert Brown
2013-03-18 18:25                           ` Bjørn Mork
2013-03-18 18:59                             ` Alex Williamson
2013-03-19 16:57                               ` Myron Stowe
2013-03-19 17:06                                 ` Myron Stowe
2013-03-17 14:33               ` Myron Stowe
2013-03-17 22:28                 ` Alex Williamson
2013-03-18 14:50                   ` Don Dutile
2013-03-18 16:34                     ` Alex Williamson
2013-03-17 14:12         ` Myron Stowe
2013-03-19  1:54         ` Robert Hancock
2013-03-19  2:03           ` Greg KH
2013-03-19  2:09             ` Robert Hancock
2013-03-19  2:35               ` Greg KH
2013-03-19  3:08                 ` Robert Hancock

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