Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in init_resources()

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Wed Mar 17 2021 - 00:54:20 EST


On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:46:34 PST (-0800), geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
init_resources() allocates an array of resources, based on the current
total number of memory regions and reserved memory regions. However,
allocating this array using memblock_alloc() might increase the number
of reserved memory regions. If that happens, populating the array later
based on the new number of regions will cause out-of-bounds writes
beyond the end of the allocated array.

Fix this by allocating one more entry, which may or may not be used.

Fixes: 797f0375dd2ef5cd ("RISC-V: Do not allocate memblock while iterating reserved memblocks")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Tested on vexriscv, which works now using L1_CACHE_SHIFT = 6, too.

This issue may show up during early boot as:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c8000008
Oops [#1]
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.11.0-orangecrab-00023-g7c4fc8e3e982-dirty #137
epc: c04d6660 ra : c04d6560 sp : c05ddf70
gp : c0678bc0 tp : c05e5b40 t0 : c8000000
t1 : 00030000 t2 : ffffffff s0 : c05ddfc0
s1 : c8000000 a0 : 00000000 a1 : c7ffffe0
a2 : 00000005 a3 : 00000001 a4 : 0000000c
a5 : 00000000 a6 : c04fe000 a7 : 0000000c
s2 : c04fe098 s3 : 000000a0 s4 : c7ffff60
s5 : c04fe0dc s6 : 80000200 s7 : c059f1d4
s8 : 81000200 s9 : c059f1f0 s10: 80000200
s11: c059f1d4 t3 : 405dbb60 t4 : c05e6f08
t5 : 81000200 t6 : 40501000
status: 00000100 badaddr: c8000008 cause: 0000000f
random: get_random_bytes called from print_oops_end_marker+0x38/0x7c with crng_init=0
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

or much later as:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 69726573
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arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
index e85bacff1b5075ee..f8f15332caa20263 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ static void __init init_resources(void)
bss_res.end = __pa_symbol(__bss_stop) - 1;
bss_res.flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;

- mem_res_sz = (memblock.memory.cnt + memblock.reserved.cnt) * sizeof(*mem_res);
+ /* + 1 as memblock_alloc() might increase memblock.reserved.cnt */
+ mem_res_sz = (memblock.memory.cnt + memblock.reserved.cnt + 1) * sizeof(*mem_res);
mem_res = memblock_alloc(mem_res_sz, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
if (!mem_res)
panic("%s: Failed to allocate %zu bytes\n", __func__, mem_res_sz);

Thanks, this is on fixes.