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authorAli Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>2026-08-21 01:45:27 +0000
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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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+================================
+Development tools for the kernel
+================================
+
+This document is a collection of documents about development tools that can
+be used to work on the kernel. For now, the documents have been pulled
+together without any significant effort to integrate them into a coherent
+whole; patches welcome!
+
+A brief overview of testing-specific tools can be found in
+Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
+
+Tools that are specific to debugging can be found in
+Documentation/process/debugging/index.rst
+
+.. toctree::
+ :caption: Table of contents
+ :maxdepth: 2
+
+ testing-overview
+ checkpatch
+ clang-format
+ coccinelle
+ context-analysis
+ sparse
+ kcov
+ gcov
+ kasan
+ kmsan
+ ubsan
+ kmemleak
+ kcsan
+ lkmm/index
+ kfence
+ kselftest
+ kunit/index
+ ktap
+ checkuapi
+ gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer
+ autofdo
+ propeller
+ container