From 1921822026a68b2739a97e6da454219f0b16e085 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Thompson Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:40:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] kdb: Fix the putarea helper function Currently kdb_putarea_size() uses copy_from_kernel_nofault() to write *to* arbitrary kernel memory. This is obviously wrong and means the memory modify ('mm') command is a serious risk to debugger stability: if we poke to a bad address we'll double-fault and lose our debug session. Fix this the (very) obvious way. Note that there are two Fixes: tags because the API was renamed and this patch will only trivially backport as far as the rename (and this is probably enough). Nevertheless Christoph's rename did not introduce this problem so I wanted to record that! Fixes: be8c573178a2 ("maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault") Fixes: 48335b87aa24 ("kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)") Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220128144055.207267-1-daniel.thompson@linaro.org --- kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c index df2bface866ef..85cb51c4a17e6 100644 --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c +++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ int kdb_getarea_size(void *res, unsigned long addr, size_t size) */ int kdb_putarea_size(unsigned long addr, void *res, size_t size) { - int ret = copy_from_kernel_nofault((char *)addr, (char *)res, size); + int ret = copy_to_kernel_nofault((char *)addr, (char *)res, size); if (ret) { if (!KDB_STATE(SUPPRESS)) { kdb_func_printf("Bad address 0x%lx\n", addr); -- 2.39.5