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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/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-ebs.rst | |
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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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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-ebs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-ebs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c09f66db5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-ebs.rst @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +====== +dm-ebs +====== + + +This target is similar to the linear target except that it emulates +a smaller logical block size on a device with a larger logical block +size. Its main purpose is to provide emulation of 512 byte sectors on +devices that do not provide this emulation (i.e. 4K native disks). + +Supported emulated logical block sizes 512, 1024, 2048 and 4096. + +Underlying block size can be set to > 4K to test buffering larger units. + + +Table parameters +---------------- + <dev path> <offset> <emulated sectors> [<underlying sectors>] + +Mandatory parameters: + + <dev path>: + Full pathname to the underlying block-device, + or a "major:minor" device-number. + <offset>: + Starting sector within the device; + has to be a multiple of <emulated sectors>. + <emulated sectors>: + Number of sectors defining the logical block size to be emulated; + 1, 2, 4, 8 sectors of 512 bytes supported. + +Optional parameter: + + <underlying sectors>: + Number of sectors defining the logical block size of <dev path>. + 2^N supported, e.g. 8 = emulate 8 sectors of 512 bytes = 4KiB. + If not provided, the logical block size of <dev path> will be used. + + +Examples: + +Emulate 1 sector = 512 bytes logical block size on /dev/sda starting at +offset 1024 sectors with underlying devices block size automatically set: + +ebs /dev/sda 1024 1 + +Emulate 2 sector = 1KiB logical block size on /dev/sda starting at +offset 128 sectors, enforce 2KiB underlying device block size. +This presumes 2KiB logical blocksize on /dev/sda or less to work: + +ebs /dev/sda 128 2 4 |
