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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
+/*
+ * Helper function for splitting a string into an argv-like array.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
+
+static int count_argc(const char *str)
+{
+ int count = 0;
+ bool was_space;
+
+ for (was_space = true; *str; str++) {
+ if (isspace(*str)) {
+ was_space = true;
+ } else if (was_space) {
+ was_space = false;
+ count++;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+/**
+ * argv_free - free an argv
+ * @argv: the argument vector to be freed
+ *
+ * Frees an argv and the strings it points to.
+ */
+void argv_free(char **argv)
+{
+ argv--;
+ kfree(argv[0]);
+ kfree(argv);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(argv_free);
+
+/**
+ * argv_split - split a string at whitespace, returning an argv
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used to allocate memory
+ * @str: the string to be split
+ * @argcp: returned argument count
+ *
+ * Returns: an array of pointers to strings which are split out from
+ * @str. This is performed by strictly splitting on white-space; no
+ * quote processing is performed. Multiple whitespace characters are
+ * considered to be a single argument separator. The returned array
+ * is always NULL-terminated. Returns NULL on memory allocation
+ * failure.
+ *
+ * The source string at `str' may be undergoing concurrent alteration via
+ * userspace sysctl activity (at least). The argv_split() implementation
+ * attempts to handle this gracefully by taking a local copy to work on.
+ */
+char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp)
+{
+ char *argv_str;
+ bool was_space;
+ char **argv, **argv_ret;
+ int argc;
+
+ argv_str = kstrndup(str, KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE - 1, gfp);
+ if (!argv_str)
+ return NULL;
+
+ argc = count_argc(argv_str);
+ argv = kmalloc_array(argc + 2, sizeof(*argv), gfp);
+ if (!argv) {
+ kfree(argv_str);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ *argv = argv_str;
+ argv_ret = ++argv;
+ for (was_space = true; *argv_str; argv_str++) {
+ if (isspace(*argv_str)) {
+ was_space = true;
+ *argv_str = 0;
+ } else if (was_space) {
+ was_space = false;
+ *argv++ = argv_str;
+ }
+ }
+ *argv = NULL;
+
+ if (argcp)
+ *argcp = argc;
+ return argv_ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(argv_split);