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    proc/vmcore: fix clearing user buffer by properly using clear_user() · c1e63117
    David Hildenbrand authored
    To clear a user buffer we cannot simply use memset, we have to use
    clear_user().  With a virtio-mem device that registers a vmcore_cb and
    has some logically unplugged memory inside an added Linux memory block,
    I can easily trigger a BUG by copying the vmcore via "cp":
    
      systemd[1]: Starting Kdump Vmcore Save Service...
      kdump[420]: Kdump is using the default log level(3).
      kdump[453]: saving to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/
      kdump[458]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt to /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/
      kdump[465]: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt complete
      kdump[467]: saving vmcore
      BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f2374e01000
      #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
      #PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
      PGD 7a523067 P4D 7a523067 PUD 7a528067 PMD 7a525067 PTE 800000007048f867
      Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
      CPU: 0 PID: 468 Comm: cp Not tainted 5.15.0+ #6
      Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.14.0-27-g64f37cc530f1-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
      RIP: 0010:read_from_oldmem.part.0.cold+0x1d/0x86
      Code: ff ff ff e8 05 ff fe ff e9 b9 e9 7f ff 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 38 3b 60 82 e8 f1 fe fe ff 83 fd 08 72 3c 49 8d 7d 08 4c 89 e9 89 e8 <49> c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 49 c7 44 05 f8 00 00 00 00 48 83 e7 f81
      RSP: 0018:ffffc9000073be08 EFLAGS: 00010212
      RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 00000000002fd000 RCX: 00007f2374e01000
      RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000ffffdfff RDI: 00007f2374e01008
      RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000073bc50
      R10: ffffc9000073bc48 R11: ffffffff829461a8 R12: 000000000000f000
      R13: 00007f2374e01000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88807bd421e8
      FS:  00007f2374e12140(0000) GS:ffff88807f000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
      CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
      CR2: 00007f2374e01000 CR3: 000000007a4aa000 CR4: 0000000000350eb0
      Call Trace:
       read_vmcore+0x236/0x2c0
       proc_reg_read+0x55/0xa0
       vfs_read+0x95/0x190
       ksys_read+0x4f/0xc0
       do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
    
    Some x86-64 CPUs have a CPU feature called "Supervisor Mode Access
    Prevention (SMAP)", which is used to detect wrong access from the kernel
    to user buffers like this: SMAP triggers a permissions violation on
    wrong access.  In the x86-64 variant of clear_user(), SMAP is properly
    handled via clac()+stac().
    
    To fix, properly use clear_user() when we're dealing with a user buffer.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211112092750.6921-1-david@redhat.com
    Fixes: 997c136f ("fs/proc/vmcore.c: add hook to read_from_oldmem() to check for non-ram pages")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
    Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
    Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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