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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/networking/netif-msg.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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/netif-msg.rst')
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1 files changed, 95 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netif-msg.rst b/Documentation/networking/netif-msg.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b20d265a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/netif-msg.rst @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=============== +NETIF Msg Level +=============== + +The design of the network interface message level setting. + +History +------- + + The design of the debugging message interface was guided and + constrained by backwards compatibility previous practice. It is useful + to understand the history and evolution in order to understand current + practice and relate it to older driver source code. + + From the beginning of Linux, each network device driver has had a local + integer variable that controls the debug message level. The message + level ranged from 0 to 7, and monotonically increased in verbosity. + + The message level was not precisely defined past level 3, but were + always implemented within +-1 of the specified level. Drivers tended + to shed the more verbose level messages as they matured. + + - 0 Minimal messages, only essential information on fatal errors. + - 1 Standard messages, initialization status. No run-time messages + - 2 Special media selection messages, generally timer-driver. + - 3 Interface starts and stops, including normal status messages + - 4 Tx and Rx frame error messages, and abnormal driver operation + - 5 Tx packet queue information, interrupt events. + - 6 Status on each completed Tx packet and received Rx packets + - 7 Initial contents of Tx and Rx packets + + Initially this message level variable was uniquely named in each driver + e.g. "lance_debug", so that a kernel symbolic debugger could locate and + modify the setting. When kernel modules became common, the variables + were consistently renamed to "debug" and allowed to be set as a module + parameter. + + This approach worked well. However there is always a demand for + additional features. Over the years the following emerged as + reasonable and easily implemented enhancements + + - Using an ioctl() call to modify the level. + - Per-interface rather than per-driver message level setting. + - More selective control over the type of messages emitted. + + The netif_msg recommendation adds these features with only a minor + complexity and code size increase. + + The recommendation is the following points + + - Retaining the per-driver integer variable "debug" as a module + parameter with a default level of '1'. + + - Adding a per-interface private variable named "msg_enable". The + variable is a bit map rather than a level, and is initialized as:: + + 1 << debug + + Or more precisely:: + + debug < 0 ? 0 : 1 << min(sizeof(int)-1, debug) + + Messages should changes from:: + + if (debug > 1) + printk(MSG_DEBUG "%s: ... + + to:: + + if (np->msg_enable & NETIF_MSG_LINK) + printk(MSG_DEBUG "%s: ... + + +The set of message levels is named + + + ========= =================== ============ + Old level Name Bit position + ========= =================== ============ + 0 NETIF_MSG_DRV 0x0001 + 1 NETIF_MSG_PROBE 0x0002 + 2 NETIF_MSG_LINK 0x0004 + 2 NETIF_MSG_TIMER 0x0004 + 3 NETIF_MSG_IFDOWN 0x0008 + 3 NETIF_MSG_IFUP 0x0008 + 4 NETIF_MSG_RX_ERR 0x0010 + 4 NETIF_MSG_TX_ERR 0x0010 + 5 NETIF_MSG_TX_QUEUED 0x0020 + 5 NETIF_MSG_INTR 0x0020 + 6 NETIF_MSG_TX_DONE 0x0040 + 6 NETIF_MSG_RX_STATUS 0x0040 + 7 NETIF_MSG_PKTDATA 0x0080 + ========= =================== ============ |
