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authorEric Lin2020-12-04 13:42:59 +0800
committerPalmer Dabbelt2021-01-07 17:19:19 -0800
commit21855cac82d3264aa660deafa9c26b8eef548b7a (patch)
tree394a5c31efdb214467a3988bb9292cd46ff69b36 /arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
parent21733cb51847132567e0f5f568f126de08669842 (diff)
riscv/mm: Prevent kernel module to access user memory without uaccess routines
We found this issue in an legacy out-of-tree kernel module which didn't properly access user space pointer by get/put_user(). Such an illegal access loops in the page fault handler. To resolve this, let it die here. Signed-off-by: Eric Lin <tesheng@andestech.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv/mm/fault.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/mm/fault.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
index 0d5f06d6e3c7..33d284188f9a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (user_mode(regs))
flags |= FAULT_FLAG_USER;
+ if (!user_mode(regs) && addr < TASK_SIZE &&
+ unlikely(!(regs->status & SR_SUM)))
+ die_kernel_fault("access to user memory without uaccess routines",
+ addr, regs);
+
perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, addr);
if (cause == EXC_STORE_PAGE_FAULT)