summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorAli Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>2026-08-21 01:45:27 +0000
committerStafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>2026-08-29 07:32:26 +0100
commit78004e9a87f240df03e2f73120d291763c32e0a7 (patch)
tree137c22dd795222931b9d2bf2501d37cd766741aa /Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace
downloadlinux-stable-78004e9a87f240df03e2f73120d291763c32e0a7.tar.gz
linux-stable-78004e9a87f240df03e2f73120d291763c32e0a7.zip
openrisc: fix arbitrary kernel memory access via or1k_atomic syscallgrafted
sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the "or1k" ABI) takes two user pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written assembly. l.lwz r29,0(r4) l.lwz r27,0(r5) l.sw 0(r4),r27 l.sw 0(r5),r29 The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory accesses also have no exception table entries. A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall reads from and writes to it directly. This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code execution in kernel context. Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user addresses return -EFAULT. [shorne@gmail.com: fix comment style] Fixes: 9d02a4283e9c ("OpenRISC: Boot code") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com> Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace46
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace b/Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9606aed33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This folder contains the relevant debugfs files for the
+ hardware trace macro to use. CONFIG_PPC64_HARDWARE_TRACING
+ must be set.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/enable
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: Write an integer containing the size in bytes of the memory
+ you want removed from each NUMA node to this file - it must be
+ aligned to the memblock size. This amount of RAM will be removed
+ from each NUMA node in the kernel mappings and the following
+ debugfs files will be created. Once memory is successfully
+ removed from each node, the following files are created. To
+ re-add memory to the kernel, echo 0 into this file (it will be
+ automatically onlined).
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This directory contains information about the removed memory
+ from the specific NUMA node.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/size
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This contains the size of the memory removed from the node.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/start
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This contains the start address of the removed memory.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/trace
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This is where the hardware trace macro will output the trace
+ it generates.