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Halil Pasic d4d975e792 swiotlb: fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE
commit ddbd89deb7 upstream.

The problem I'm addressing was discovered by the LTP test covering
cve-2018-1000204.

A short description of what happens follows:
1) The test case issues a command code 00 (TEST UNIT READY) via the SG_IO
   interface with: dxfer_len == 524288, dxdfer_dir == SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV
   and a corresponding dxferp. The peculiar thing about this is that TUR
   is not reading from the device.
2) In sg_start_req() the invocation of blk_rq_map_user() effectively
   bounces the user-space buffer. As if the device was to transfer into
   it. Since commit a45b599ad8 ("scsi: sg: allocate with __GFP_ZERO in
   sg_build_indirect()") we make sure this first bounce buffer is
   allocated with GFP_ZERO.
3) For the rest of the story we keep ignoring that we have a TUR, so the
   device won't touch the buffer we prepare as if the we had a
   DMA_FROM_DEVICE type of situation. My setup uses a virtio-scsi device
   and the  buffer allocated by SG is mapped by the function
   virtqueue_add_split() which uses DMA_FROM_DEVICE for the "in" sgs (here
   scatter-gather and not scsi generics). This mapping involves bouncing
   via the swiotlb (we need swiotlb to do virtio in protected guest like
   s390 Secure Execution, or AMD SEV).
4) When the SCSI TUR is done, we first copy back the content of the second
   (that is swiotlb) bounce buffer (which most likely contains some
   previous IO data), to the first bounce buffer, which contains all
   zeros.  Then we copy back the content of the first bounce buffer to
   the user-space buffer.
5) The test case detects that the buffer, which it zero-initialized,
  ain't all zeros and fails.

One can argue that this is an swiotlb problem, because without swiotlb
we leak all zeros, and the swiotlb should be transparent in a sense that
it does not affect the outcome (if all other participants are well
behaved).

Copying the content of the original buffer into the swiotlb buffer is
the only way I can think of to make swiotlb transparent in such
scenarios. So let's do just that if in doubt, but allow the driver
to tell us that the whole mapped buffer is going to be overwritten,
in which case we can preserve the old behavior and avoid the performance
impact of the extra bounce.

Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-04-08 14:39:46 +02:00
arch nds32: fix access_ok() checks in get/put_user 2022-03-28 09:57:10 +02:00
block block/wbt: fix negative inflight counter when remove scsi device 2022-02-23 12:01:04 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: api - Move cryptomgr soft dependency into algapi 2022-02-11 09:09:03 +01:00
Documentation swiotlb: fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE 2022-04-08 14:39:46 +02:00
drivers wcn36xx: Differentiate wcn3660 from wcn3620 2022-03-28 09:57:10 +02:00
fs exfat: avoid incorrectly releasing for root inode 2022-03-28 09:57:07 +02:00
include swiotlb: fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE 2022-04-08 14:39:46 +02:00
init bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default 2022-01-05 12:40:34 +01:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:19:10 +01:00
kernel swiotlb: fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE 2022-04-08 14:39:46 +02:00
lib ARM: 9178/1: fix unmet dependency on BITREVERSE for HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE 2022-03-19 13:44:44 +01:00
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mm mm: swap: get rid of livelock in swapin readahead 2022-03-23 09:13:27 +01:00
net llc: only change llc->dev when bind() succeeds 2022-03-28 09:57:10 +02:00
samples ftrace/samples: Add missing prototypes direct functions 2022-01-11 15:25:00 +01:00
scripts kconfig: fix failing to generate auto.conf 2022-02-23 12:01:07 +01:00
security ima: Do not print policy rule with inactive LSM labels 2022-02-16 12:54:16 +01:00
sound ALSA: pci: fix reading of swapped values from pcmreg in AC97 codec 2022-03-28 09:57:09 +02:00
tools Revert "selftests/bpf: Add test for bpf_timer overwriting crash" 2022-03-23 09:13:30 +01:00
usr usr/include/Makefile: add linux/nfc.h to the compile-test coverage 2022-02-01 17:25:48 +01:00
virt KVM: eventfd: Fix false positive RCU usage warning 2022-02-16 12:54:20 +01:00
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