Patch "s390/decompressor: fix initrd corruption caused by bss clear" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    s390/decompressor: fix initrd corruption caused by bss clear

to the 3.18-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:
     s390-decompressor-fix-initrd-corruption-caused-by-bss-clear.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 d82c0d12c92705ef468683c9b7a8298dd61ed191 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:14:58 -0300
Subject: s390/decompressor: fix initrd corruption caused by bss clear

From: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>

commit d82c0d12c92705ef468683c9b7a8298dd61ed191 upstream.

Reorder the operations in decompress_kernel() to ensure initrd is moved
to a safe location before the bss section is zeroed.

During decompression bss can overlap with the initrd and this can
corrupt the initrd contents depending on the size of the compressed
kernel (which affects where the initrd is placed by the bootloader) and
the size of the bss section of the decompressor.

Also use the correct initrd size when checking for overlaps with
parmblock.

Fixes: 06c0dd72aea3 ([S390] fix boot failures with compressed kernels)
Reviewed-by: Joy Latten <joy.latten@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Vineetha HariPai <vineetha.hari.pai@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c |   35 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -142,31 +142,34 @@ static void check_ipl_parmblock(void *st
 
 unsigned long decompress_kernel(void)
 {
-	unsigned long output_addr;
-	unsigned char *output;
+	void *output, *kernel_end;
 
-	output_addr = ((unsigned long) &_end + HEAP_SIZE + 4095UL) & -4096UL;
-	check_ipl_parmblock((void *) 0, output_addr + SZ__bss_start);
-	memset(&_bss, 0, &_ebss - &_bss);
-	free_mem_ptr = (unsigned long)&_end;
-	free_mem_end_ptr = free_mem_ptr + HEAP_SIZE;
-	output = (unsigned char *) output_addr;
+	output = (void *) ALIGN((unsigned long) &_end + HEAP_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
+	kernel_end = output + SZ__bss_start;
+	check_ipl_parmblock((void *) 0, (unsigned long) kernel_end);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
 	/*
 	 * Move the initrd right behind the end of the decompressed
-	 * kernel image.
+	 * kernel image. This also prevents initrd corruption caused by
+	 * bss clearing since kernel_end will always be located behind the
+	 * current bss section..
 	 */
-	if (INITRD_START && INITRD_SIZE &&
-	    INITRD_START < (unsigned long) output + SZ__bss_start) {
-		check_ipl_parmblock(output + SZ__bss_start,
-				    INITRD_START + INITRD_SIZE);
-		memmove(output + SZ__bss_start,
-			(void *) INITRD_START, INITRD_SIZE);
-		INITRD_START = (unsigned long) output + SZ__bss_start;
+	if (INITRD_START && INITRD_SIZE && kernel_end > (void *) INITRD_START) {
+		check_ipl_parmblock(kernel_end, INITRD_SIZE);
+		memmove(kernel_end, (void *) INITRD_START, INITRD_SIZE);
+		INITRD_START = (unsigned long) kernel_end;
 	}
 #endif
 
+	/*
+	 * Clear bss section. free_mem_ptr and free_mem_end_ptr need to be
+	 * initialized afterwards since they reside in bss.
+	 */
+	memset(&_bss, 0, &_ebss - &_bss);
+	free_mem_ptr = (unsigned long) &_end;
+	free_mem_end_ptr = free_mem_ptr + HEAP_SIZE;
+
 	puts("Uncompressing Linux... ");
 	decompress(input_data, input_len, NULL, NULL, output, NULL, error);
 	puts("Ok, booting the kernel.\n");


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marcelo.cerri@canonical.com are

queue-3.18/s390-decompressor-fix-initrd-corruption-caused-by-bss-clear.patch