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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
+/*
+ * Implement the manual drop-all-pagecache function
+ */
+
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
+#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+#include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/swap.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
+/* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */
+static int sysctl_drop_caches;
+
+static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
+{
+ struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;
+
+ spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
+ list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
+ spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+ /*
+ * We must skip inodes in unusual state. We may also skip
+ * inodes without pages but we deliberately won't in case
+ * we need to reschedule to avoid softlockups.
+ */
+ if ((inode_state_read(inode) & (I_FREEING | I_WILL_FREE | I_NEW)) ||
+ (mapping_empty(inode->i_mapping) && !need_resched())) {
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+ continue;
+ }
+ __iget(inode);
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
+
+ invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
+ iput(toput_inode);
+ toput_inode = inode;
+
+ cond_resched();
+ spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
+ iput(toput_inode);
+}
+
+static int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(const struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ if (write) {
+ static int stfu;
+
+ if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) {
+ lru_add_drain_all();
+ iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
+ count_vm_event(DROP_PAGECACHE);
+ }
+ if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2) {
+ drop_slab();
+ count_vm_event(DROP_SLAB);
+ }
+ if (!stfu) {
+ pr_info("%s (%d): drop_caches: %d\n",
+ current->comm, task_pid_nr(current),
+ sysctl_drop_caches);
+ }
+ stfu |= sysctl_drop_caches & 4;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct ctl_table drop_caches_table[] = {
+ {
+ .procname = "drop_caches",
+ .data = &sysctl_drop_caches,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0200,
+ .proc_handler = drop_caches_sysctl_handler,
+ .extra1 = SYSCTL_ONE,
+ .extra2 = SYSCTL_FOUR,
+ },
+};
+
+static int __init init_vm_drop_caches_sysctls(void)
+{
+ register_sysctl_init("vm", drop_caches_table);
+ return 0;
+}
+fs_initcall(init_vm_drop_caches_sysctls);