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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm64: extable: fix null deref in load_unaligned_zeropad.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 7:50 AM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:23:20PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:34:47PM -0800, Evgenii Stepanov wrote:
> > > ex_handler_load_unaligned_zeropad extracts the source and data register
> > > numbers from the wrong field of the exception table.
> >
> > Ouch. Did you find this by inspection, or did this show up in testing?
> >
> > Sorry about this.
> >
> > I think we should be a little more explicit as to exactly what goes wrong. How
> > about:
> >
> > | In ex_handler_load_unaligned_zeropad() we erroneously extract the data and
> > | addr register indices from ex->type rather than ex->data. As ex->type will
> > | contain EX_TYPE_LOAD_UNALIGNED_ZEROPAD (i.e. 4):
> > |
> > | * We'll always treat X0 as the address register, since EX_DATA_REG_ADDR is
> > | extracted from bits [9:5]. Thus, we may attempt to dereference an arbitrary
> > | address as X0 may hold an arbitary value.
> > |
> > | * We'll always treat X4 as the data register, since EX_DATA_REG_DATA is
> > | extracted from bits [4:0]. Thus we will corrupt X4 and cause arbitrary
> > | behaviour within load_unaligned_zeropad() and its caller.
> > |
> > | Fix this by extracting both values from ex->data as originally intended.
> >
> > > Fixes: 753b3236
> >
> > That should be expanded, e.g.
> >
> > Fixes: 753b32368705c396 ("arm64: extable: add load_unaligned_zeropad() handler")
> >
> > With those changes:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
>
> Looking again, sicne this isn't jsut a null-deref, can we also rework the
> title, something like:
>
> | arm64: extable: fix load_unaligned_zeropad() reg indices

That's a much better commit message, thank you! I'll upload v2 shortly.

This was found by updating to a newer QEMU that correctly delivers MTE
faults from unaligned memory accesses, and triggers this bug reliably
during Android boot. I'll add a stack trace to v2.

>
> Thanks,
> Mark.

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