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Commit 01e346ff authored by Nathan Lynch's avatar Nathan Lynch Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/rtas: Avoid warning on invalid token argument to sys_rtas()



rtas_token_to_function() WARNs when passed an invalid token; it's
meant to catch bugs in kernel-based users of RTAS functions. However,
user space controls the token value passed to rtas_token_to_function()
by block_rtas_call(), so user space with sufficient privilege to use
sys_rtas() can trigger the warnings at will:

  unexpected failed lookup for token 2048
  WARNING: CPU: 20 PID: 2247 at arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:556
    rtas_token_to_function+0xfc/0x110
  ...
  NIP rtas_token_to_function+0xfc/0x110
  LR  rtas_token_to_function+0xf8/0x110
  Call Trace:
    rtas_token_to_function+0xf8/0x110 (unreliable)
    sys_rtas+0x188/0x880
    system_call_exception+0x268/0x530
    system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4

It's desirable to continue warning on bogus tokens in
rtas_token_to_function(). Currently it is used to look up RTAS
function descriptors when tracing, where we know there has to have
been a successful descriptor lookup by different means already, and it
would be a serious inconsistency for the reverse lookup to fail.

So instead of weakening rtas_token_to_function()'s contract by
removing the warnings, introduce rtas_token_to_function_untrusted(),
which has no opinion on failed lookups. Convert block_rtas_call() and
rtas_token_to_function() to use it.

Fixes: 8252b882 ("powerpc/rtas: improve function information lookups")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20231212-papr-sys_rtas-vs-lockdown-v6-1-e9eafd0c8c6c@linux.ibm.com
parent 070b71f4
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