Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau/secboot/acr: Remove VLA usage

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Jun 22 2018 - 17:34:18 EST


On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:24 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
>> allocates the working buffers before starting the writing so it won't
>> abort in the middle. This needs an initial walk of the lists to figure
>> out how large the buffer should be.
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> .../nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/acr_r352.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---
>> .../nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/acr_r367.c | 16 +++++++++++-
>> 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/acr_r352.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/acr_r352.c
>> index a721354249ce..d02e183717dc 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/acr_r352.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/acr_r352.c
>> @@ -414,6 +414,20 @@ acr_r352_ls_write_wpr(struct acr_r352 *acr, struct list_head *imgs,
>> {
>> struct ls_ucode_img *_img;
>> u32 pos = 0;
>> + u32 max_desc_size = 0;
>> + u8 *gdesc;
>> +
>> + /* Figure out how large we need gdesc to be. */
>> + list_for_each_entry(_img, imgs, node) {
>> + const struct acr_r352_ls_func *ls_func =
>> + acr->func->ls_func[_img->falcon_id];
>> +
>> + max_desc_size = max(max_desc_size, ls_func->bl_desc_size);
>> + }
>> +
>> + gdesc = kmalloc(max_desc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + if (!gdesc)
>> + return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> nvkm_kmap(wpr_blob);
>>
>> @@ -421,7 +435,6 @@ acr_r352_ls_write_wpr(struct acr_r352 *acr, struct list_head *imgs,
>> struct ls_ucode_img_r352 *img = ls_ucode_img_r352(_img);
>> const struct acr_r352_ls_func *ls_func =
>> acr->func->ls_func[_img->falcon_id];
>> - u8 gdesc[ls_func->bl_desc_size];
>>
>
> if there are no guarantees that (ls_func->bl_desc_size & 0x4 == 0),
> then we need to memset a bit more, because 4 bytes at the time are
> actually copied inside nvkm_gpuobj_memcpy_to later in that code, but
> the last 4 bytes are only partly memset to 0.

I think this is unchanged from the original code, yes? The memset() is
always against bl_desc_size; I haven't changed that.

> If ls_func->bl_desc_size is always a multiple of 0x4, then it isn't as
> important, but still better to be fixed. Or maybe
> nvkm_gpuobj_memcpy_to should do that handling and check if the size is
> a multiple of 0x4 and otherwise handle that case?
>
> Same is valid for the changes in the r367 file.

Should I resend with both the allocation and the memset getting
rounded up to the next multiple of 4?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security