Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: Do not break early boot with probing addresses

Martin Schwidefsky
2019-05-10T16:45:48Z

On Fri, 10 May 2019 12:40:58 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 May 2019 18:32:58 +0200
> Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 May 2019 12:24:01 -0400
> > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 10 May 2019 10:42:13 +0200
> > > Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > static const char *check_pointer_msg(const void *ptr)
> > > > {
> > > > - char byte;
> > > > -
> > > > if (!ptr)
> > > > return "(null)";
> > > >
> > > > - if (probe_kernel_address(ptr, byte))
> > > > + if ((unsigned long)ptr < PAGE_SIZE || IS_ERR_VALUE(ptr))
> > > > return "(efault)";
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > < PAGE_SIZE ?
> > >
> > > do you mean: < TASK_SIZE ?
> >
> > The check with < TASK_SIZE would break on s390. The 'ptr' is
> > in the kernel address space, *not* in the user address space.
> > Remember s390 has two separate address spaces for kernel/user
> > the check < TASK_SIZE only makes sense with a __user pointer.
> >
>
> So we allow this to read user addresses? Can't that cause a fault?
>
> If the condition is true, we return "(efault)".

On x86 this would allow a user space access as kernel and user live
in the same address space, on s390 it would not.
h
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