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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/driver-api/infrastructure.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/driver-api/infrastructure.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..35e36fee4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +Device drivers infrastructure +============================= + +The Basic Device Driver-Model Structures +---------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device.h + :internal: + :no-identifiers: device_link_state + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/bus.h + :identifiers: bus_type bus_notifier_event + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/class.h + :identifiers: class + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/driver.h + :identifiers: probe_type device_driver + +Device Drivers Base +------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/init.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/driver.h + :no-identifiers: probe_type device_driver + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/driver.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/core.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/syscore.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/class.h + :no-identifiers: class + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/class.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/faux.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/faux.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/node.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/transport_class.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/dd.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/platform_device.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/platform.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device/bus.h + :no-identifiers: bus_type bus_notifier_event + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/bus.c + :export: + +Device Drivers DMA Management +----------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/dma/mapping.c + :export: + +Device drivers PnP support +-------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/core.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/card.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/driver.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/manager.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/pnp/support.c + :export: + +Userspace IO devices +-------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/uio/uio.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/uio_driver.h + :internal: + |
