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Commit 1151f838 authored by Ard Biesheuvel's avatar Ard Biesheuvel Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: kernel: restrict /dev/mem read() calls to linear region



When running lscpu on an AArch64 system that has SMBIOS version 2.0
tables, it will segfault in the following way:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff8000bfff0000
  pgd = ffff8000f9615000
  [ffff8000bfff0000] *pgd=0000000000000000
  Internal error: Oops: 96000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1284 Comm: lscpu Not tainted 4.11.0-rc3+ #103
  Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  task: ffff8000fa78e800 task.stack: ffff8000f9780000
  PC is at __arch_copy_to_user+0x90/0x220
  LR is at read_mem+0xcc/0x140

This is caused by the fact that lspci issues a read() on /dev/mem at the
offset where it expects to find the SMBIOS structure array. However, this
region is classified as EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICE_DATA (as per the UEFI spec),
and so it is omitted from the linear mapping.

So let's restrict /dev/mem read/write access to those areas that are
covered by the linear region.

Reported-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Fixes: 4dffbfc4

 ("arm64/efi: mark UEFI reserved regions as MEMBLOCK_NOMAP")
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
parent db46a72b
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