James Hogan 9d7f29cdb4 MIPS: cevt-r4k: Fix out-of-bounds array access
calculate_min_delta() may incorrectly access a 4th element of buf2[]
which only has 3 elements. This may trigger undefined behaviour and has
been reported to cause strange crashes in start_kernel() sometime after
timer initialization when built with GCC 5.3, possibly due to
register/stack corruption:

sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 10737418237ns
CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffb0aa, epc == 8067daa8, ra == 8067da84
Oops[#1]:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.18 #51
task: 8065e3e0 task.stack: 80644000
$ 0   : 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000
$ 4   : 8065b4d0 00000000 805d0000 00000010
$ 8   : 00000010 80321400 fffff000 812de408
$12   : 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff
$16   : 00000002 ffffffff 80660000 806a666c
$20   : 806c0000 00000000 00000000 00000000
$24   : 00000000 00000010
$28   : 80644000 80645ed0 00000000 8067da84
Hi    : 00000000
Lo    : 00000000
epc   : 8067daa8 start_kernel+0x33c/0x500
ra    : 8067da84 start_kernel+0x318/0x500
Status: 11000402 KERNEL EXL
Cause : 4080040c (ExcCode 03)
BadVA : ffffb0aa
PrId  : 0501992c (MIPS 1004Kc)
Modules linked in:
Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, threadinfo=80644000, task=8065e3e0, tls=00000000)
Call Trace:
[<8067daa8>] start_kernel+0x33c/0x500
Code: 24050240  0c0131f9  24849c64 <a200b0a8> 41606020  000000c0  0c1a45e6 00000000  0c1a5f44

UBSAN also detects the same issue:

================================================================
UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c:85:41
load of address 80647e4c with insufficient space
for an object of type 'unsigned int'
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.18 #47
Call Trace:
[<80028f70>] show_stack+0x88/0xa4
[<80312654>] dump_stack+0x84/0xc0
[<8034163c>] ubsan_epilogue+0x14/0x50
[<803417d8>] __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch+0x160/0x168
[<8002dab0>] r4k_clockevent_init+0x544/0x764
[<80684d34>] time_init+0x18/0x90
[<8067fa5c>] start_kernel+0x2f0/0x500
=================================================================

buf2[] is intentionally only 3 elements so that the last element is the
median once 5 samples have been inserted, so explicitly prevent the
possibility of comparing against the 4th element rather than extending
the array.

Fixes: 1fa405552e ("MIPS: cevt-r4k: Dynamically calculate min_delta_ns")
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.7.x-
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15892/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2017-04-10 13:31:12 +02:00
2017-02-13 12:24:56 -05:00
2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
2017-04-09 09:49:44 -07:00

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