[PATCH] cxgb4: do not dma memory off of the stack

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Oct 01 2019 - 11:39:24 EST


Nicolas pointed out that the cxgb4 driver is doing dma off of the stack,
which is generally considered a very bad thing. On some architectures
it could be a security problem, but odds are none of them actually run
this driver, so it's just a "normal" bug.

Resolve this by allocating the memory for a message off of the heap
instead of the stack. kmalloc() always will give us a proper memory
location that DMA will work correctly from.

Reported-by: Nicolas Waisman <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

Note, test-built only, I don't have this hardware to actually run this
code at all.

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
index aa772ee0706f..b2bd3de81dcd 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
@@ -275,13 +275,17 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
struct sk_buff *skb, struct c4iw_wr_wait *wr_waitp)
{
int err;
- struct fw_ri_tpte tpt;
+ struct fw_ri_tpte *tpt;
u32 stag_idx;
static atomic_t key;

if (c4iw_fatal_error(rdev))
return -EIO;

+ tpt = kmalloc(sizeof(*tpt), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!tpt)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
stag_state = stag_state > 0;
stag_idx = (*stag) >> 8;

@@ -305,28 +309,28 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,

/* write TPT entry */
if (reset_tpt_entry)
- memset(&tpt, 0, sizeof(tpt));
+ memset(tpt, 0, sizeof(*tpt));
else {
- tpt.valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
+ tpt->valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_V((*stag & FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_M)) |
FW_RI_TPTE_STAGSTATE_V(stag_state) |
FW_RI_TPTE_STAGTYPE_V(type) | FW_RI_TPTE_PDID_V(pdid));
- tpt.locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
+ tpt->locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
(bind_enabled ? FW_RI_TPTE_MWBINDEN_F : 0) |
FW_RI_TPTE_ADDRTYPE_V((zbva ? FW_RI_ZERO_BASED_TO :
FW_RI_VA_BASED_TO))|
FW_RI_TPTE_PS_V(page_size));
- tpt.nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
+ tpt->nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
FW_RI_TPTE_PBLADDR_V(PBL_OFF(rdev, pbl_addr)>>3));
- tpt.len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
- tpt.va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
- tpt.va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
- tpt.dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
- tpt.len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
+ tpt->len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
+ tpt->va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
+ tpt->va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
+ tpt->dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
+ tpt->len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
}
err = write_adapter_mem(rdev, stag_idx +
(rdev->lldi.vr->stag.start >> 5),
- sizeof(tpt), &tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
+ sizeof(*tpt), tpt, skb, wr_waitp);

if (reset_tpt_entry) {
c4iw_put_resource(&rdev->resource.tpt_table, stag_idx);
@@ -334,6 +338,7 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
rdev->stats.stag.cur -= 32;
mutex_unlock(&rdev->stats.lock);
}
+ kfree(tpt);
return err;
}