Patch "drivers: char: mem: Fix thinkos in kmem address checks" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drivers: char: mem: Fix thinkos in kmem address checks

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drivers-char-mem-fix-thinkos-in-kmem-address-checks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 488debb9971bc7d0edd6d8080ba78ca02a04f6c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 17:15:01 +0000
Subject: drivers: char: mem: Fix thinkos in kmem address checks

From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>

commit 488debb9971bc7d0edd6d8080ba78ca02a04f6c4 upstream.

When borrowing the pfn_valid() check from mmap_kmem(), somebody managed
to get physical and virtual addresses spectacularly muddled up, such
that we've ended up with checks for one being the other. Whilst this
does indeed prevent out-of-bounds accesses crashing, on most systems
it also prevents the more desirable use-case of working at all ever.

Check the *virtual* offset correctly for what it is. Furthermore, do
so in the right place - a read or write may span multiple pages, so a
single up-front check is insufficient. High memory accesses already
have a similar validity check just before the copy_to_user() call, so
just make the low memory path fully consistent with that.

Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Fixes: 148a1bc84398 ("drivers: char: mem: Check {read,write}_kmem() addresses")
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/char/mem.c |   10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -381,9 +381,6 @@ static ssize_t read_kmem(struct file *fi
 	char *kbuf; /* k-addr because vread() takes vmlist_lock rwlock */
 	int err = 0;
 
-	if (!pfn_valid(PFN_DOWN(p)))
-		return -EIO;
-
 	read = 0;
 	if (p < (unsigned long) high_memory) {
 		low_count = count;
@@ -412,6 +409,8 @@ static ssize_t read_kmem(struct file *fi
 			 * by the kernel or data corruption may occur
 			 */
 			kbuf = xlate_dev_kmem_ptr((void *)p);
+			if (!virt_addr_valid(kbuf))
+				return -ENXIO;
 
 			if (copy_to_user(buf, kbuf, sz))
 				return -EFAULT;
@@ -482,6 +481,8 @@ static ssize_t do_write_kmem(unsigned lo
 		 * corruption may occur.
 		 */
 		ptr = xlate_dev_kmem_ptr((void *)p);
+		if (!virt_addr_valid(ptr))
+			return -ENXIO;
 
 		copied = copy_from_user(ptr, buf, sz);
 		if (copied) {
@@ -512,9 +513,6 @@ static ssize_t write_kmem(struct file *f
 	char *kbuf; /* k-addr because vwrite() takes vmlist_lock rwlock */
 	int err = 0;
 
-	if (!pfn_valid(PFN_DOWN(p)))
-		return -EIO;
-
 	if (p < (unsigned long) high_memory) {
 		unsigned long to_write = min_t(unsigned long, count,
 					       (unsigned long)high_memory - p);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from robin.murphy@arm.com are

queue-4.9/drivers-char-mem-fix-thinkos-in-kmem-address-checks.patch