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Commit 348c7134 authored by Kajol Jain's avatar Kajol Jain Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/papr_scm: Fix buffer overflow issue with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE

With CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE enabled, string functions will also perform
dynamic checks for string size which can panic the kernel, like incase
of overflow detection.

In papr_scm, papr_scm_pmu_check_events function uses stat->stat_id with
string operations, to populate the nvdimm_events_map array. Since
stat_id variable is not NULL terminated, the kernel panics with
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE enabled at boot time.

Below are the logs of kernel panic:

  detected buffer overflow in __fortify_strlen
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:980!
  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
  NIP [c00000000077dad0] fortify_panic+0x28/0x38
  LR [c00000000077dacc] fortify_panic+0x24/0x38
  Call Trace:
  [c0000022d77836e0] [c00000000077dacc] fortify_panic+0x24/0x38 (unreliable)
  [c00800000deb2660] papr_scm_pmu_check_events.constprop.0+0x118/0x220 [papr_scm]
  [c00800000deb2cb0] papr_scm_probe+0x288/0x62c [papr_scm]
  [c0000000009b46a8] platform_probe+0x98/0x150

Fix this issue by using kmemdup_nul() to copy the content of
stat->stat_id directly to the nvdimm_events_map array.

mpe: stat->stat_id comes from the hypervisor, not userspace, so there is
no security exposure.

Fixes: 4c08d4bb

 ("powerpc/papr_scm: Add perf interface support")
Signed-off-by: default avatarKajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220505153451.35503-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
parent 6d65028e
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