On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:00:04 +0000, Leon Romanovsky leon@kernel.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 07:06:32PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
A malicious device can change its MSIX table size between the table ioremap() and subsequent accesses, resulting in a kernel page fault in pci_write_msg_msix().
To avoid this, cache the table size observed at the moment of table ioremap() and use the cached value. This, however, does not help drivers that peek at the PCIE_MSIX_FLAGS register directly.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
drivers/pci/msi/api.c | 7 ++++++- drivers/pci/msi/msi.c | 2 +- include/linux/pci.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
I'm not security expert here, but not sure that this protects from anything.
- Kernel relies on working and not-malicious HW. There are gazillion ways
to cause crashes other than changing MSI-X. 2. Device can report large table size, kernel will cache it and malicious device will reduce it back. It is not handled and will cause to kernel crash too.
Indeed, this was my exact reaction reading this patch. This only makes sure the same (potentially wrong) value is used at all times. So while this results in a consistent use, this doesn't give much guarantee.
The only way to deal with this is to actually handle the resulting fault, similar to what the kernel does when accessing userspace. Not sure how possible this is with something like PCIe.
M.