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Accessing the disabled memory space of a PCI device would typically result in a master abort response on conventional PCI, or an unsupported request on PCI express. The user would generally see these as a -1 response for the read return data and the write would be silently discarded, possibly with an uncorrected, non-fatal AER error triggered on the host. Some systems however take it upon themselves to bring down the entire system when they see something that might indicate a loss of data, such as this discarded write to a disabled memory space. To avoid this, we want to try to block the user from accessing memory spaces while they're disabled. We start with a semaphore around the memory enable bit, where writers modify the memory enable state and must be serialized, while readers make use of the memory region and can access in parallel. Writers include both direct manipulation via the command register, as well as any reset path where the internal mechanics of the reset may both explicitly and implicitly disable memory access, and manipulation of the MSI-X configuration, where the MSI-X vector table resides in MMIO space of the device. Readers include the read and write file ops to access the vfio device fd offsets as well as memory mapped access. In the latter case, we make use of our new vma list support to zap, or invalidate, those memory mappings in order to force them to be faulted back in on access. Our semaphore usage will stall user access to MMIO spaces across internal operations like reset, but the user might experience new behavior when trying to access the MMIO space while disabled via the PCI command register. Access via read or write while disabled will return -EIO and access via memory maps will result in a SIGBUS. This is expected to be compatible with known use cases and potentially provides better error handling capabilities than present in the hardware, while avoiding the more readily accessible and severe platform error responses that might otherwise occur. Fixes: CVE-2020-12888 Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.