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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
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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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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/pmem-region.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+maintainers:
+ - Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
+
+title: Persistent Memory Regions
+
+description: |
+ Persistent memory refers to a class of memory devices that are:
+
+ a) Usable as main system memory (i.e. cacheable), and
+ b) Retain their contents across power failure.
+
+ Given b) it is best to think of persistent memory as a kind of memory mapped
+ storage device. To ensure data integrity the operating system needs to manage
+ persistent regions separately to the normal memory pool. To aid with that this
+ binding provides a standardised interface for discovering where persistent
+ memory regions exist inside the physical address space.
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ const: pmem-region
+
+ reg:
+ maxItems: 1
+
+ volatile:
+ description:
+ Indicates the region is volatile (non-persistent) and the OS can skip
+ cache flushes for writes
+ type: boolean
+
+required:
+ - compatible
+ - reg
+
+additionalProperties: false
+
+examples:
+ - |
+ pmem@5000 {
+ compatible = "pmem-region";
+ reg = <0x00005000 0x00001000>;
+ };