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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
+
+eBPF Userspace API
+==================
+
+eBPF is a kernel mechanism to provide a sandboxed runtime environment in the
+Linux kernel for runtime extension and instrumentation without changing kernel
+source code or loading kernel modules. eBPF programs can be attached to various
+kernel subsystems, including networking, tracing and Linux security modules
+(LSM).
+
+For internal kernel documentation on eBPF, see Documentation/bpf/index.rst.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ syscall
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+eBPF Syscall
+------------
+
+:Authors: - Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
+ - Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
+ - Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+
+The primary info for the bpf syscall is available in the `man-pages`_
+for `bpf(2)`_.
+
+bpf() subcommand reference
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+ :doc: eBPF Syscall Preamble
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+ :doc: eBPF Syscall Commands
+
+.. Links:
+.. _man-pages: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
+.. _bpf(2): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/bpf.2.html