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authorAli Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>2026-08-21 01:45:27 +0000
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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>
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+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ (X = CPU number)
+
+ Machine checks report internal hardware error conditions
+ detected by the CPU. Uncorrected errors typically cause a
+ machine check (often with panic), corrected ones cause a
+ machine check log entry.
+
+ For more details about the x86 machine check architecture
+ see the Intel and AMD architecture manuals from their
+ developer websites.
+
+ For more details about the architecture
+ see http://one.firstfloor.org/~andi/mce.pdf
+
+ Each CPU has its own directory.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/bank<Y>
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ (Y bank number)
+
+ 64bit Hex bitmask enabling/disabling specific subevents for
+ bank Y.
+
+ When a bit in the bitmask is zero then the respective
+ subevent will not be reported.
+
+ By default all events are enabled.
+
+ Note that BIOS maintain another mask to disable specific events
+ per bank. This is not visible here
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/check_interval
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ The entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared
+ between all CPUs.
+
+ How often to poll for corrected machine check errors, in
+ seconds (Note output is hexadecimal). Default 5 minutes.
+ When the poller finds MCEs it triggers an exponential speedup
+ (poll more often) on the polling interval. When the poller
+ stops finding MCEs, it triggers an exponential backoff
+ (poll less often) on the polling interval. The check_interval
+ variable is both the initial and maximum polling interval.
+ 0 means no polling for corrected machine check errors
+ (but some corrected errors might be still reported
+ in other ways)
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/trigger
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ The entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared
+ between all CPUs.
+
+ Program to run when a machine check event is detected.
+ This is an alternative to running mcelog regularly from cron
+ and allows to detect events faster.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/monarch_timeout
+Contact: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Feb, 2007
+Description:
+ How long to wait for the other CPUs to machine check too on a
+ exception. 0 to disable waiting for other CPUs.
+
+ Unit: us
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/ignore_ce
+Contact: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
+Date: Jun 2009
+Description:
+ Disables polling and CMCI for corrected errors.
+ All corrected events are not cleared and kept in bank MSRs.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/dont_log_ce
+Contact: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
+Date: Jun 2009
+Description:
+ Disables logging for corrected errors.
+ All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently.
+
+ This option will be useful if you never care about corrected
+ errors.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckX/cmci_disabled
+Contact: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
+Date: Jun 2009
+Description:
+ Disables the CMCI feature.