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| author | Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com> | 2026-08-21 01:45:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> | 2026-08-29 07:32:26 +0100 |
| commit | 78004e9a87f240df03e2f73120d291763c32e0a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 137c22dd795222931b9d2bf2501d37cd766741aa /Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa | |
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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/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa')
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa new file mode 100644 index 000000000..90e375ff5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-numa @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/mm/numa/ +Date: June 2021 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: Interface for NUMA + +What: /sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled +Date: June 2021 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> +Description: Enable/disable demoting pages during reclaim + + Page migration during reclaim is intended for systems + with tiered memory configurations. These systems have + multiple types of memory with varied performance + characteristics instead of plain NUMA systems where + the same kind of memory is found at varied distances. + Allowing page migration during reclaim enables these + systems to migrate pages from fast tiers to slow tiers + when the fast tier is under pressure. This migration + is performed before swap if an eligible numa node is + present in cpuset.mems for the cgroup (or if cpuset v1 + is being used). If cpusets.mems changes at runtime, it + may move data to a NUMA node that does not fall into the + cpuset of the new cpusets.mems, which might be construed + to violate the guarantees of cpusets. Shared memory, + such as libraries, owned by another cgroup may still be + demoted and result in memory use on a node not present + in cpusets.mem. This should not be enabled on systems + which need strict cpuset location guarantees. |
