RDMA/cxgb4: Do not dma memory off of the stack

Nicolas pointed out that the cxgb4 driver is doing dma off of the stack,
which is generally considered a very bad thing.  On some architectures it
could be a security problem, but odds are none of them actually run this
driver, so it's just a "normal" bug.

Resolve this by allocating the memory for a message off of the heap
instead of the stack.  kmalloc() always will give us a proper memory
location that DMA will work correctly from.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001165611.GA3542072@kroah.com
Reported-by: Nicolas Waisman <nico@semmle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tested-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
index aa772ee0706f9991ced0a0f6644e15f916d9151c..35c284af574dadaee494f71e5381f0462c6bb3f1 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c
@@ -275,13 +275,17 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
                           struct sk_buff *skb, struct c4iw_wr_wait *wr_waitp)
 {
        int err;
-       struct fw_ri_tpte tpt;
+       struct fw_ri_tpte *tpt;
        u32 stag_idx;
        static atomic_t key;
 
        if (c4iw_fatal_error(rdev))
                return -EIO;
 
+       tpt = kmalloc(sizeof(*tpt), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!tpt)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        stag_state = stag_state > 0;
        stag_idx = (*stag) >> 8;
 
@@ -291,6 +295,7 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
                        mutex_lock(&rdev->stats.lock);
                        rdev->stats.stag.fail++;
                        mutex_unlock(&rdev->stats.lock);
+                       kfree(tpt);
                        return -ENOMEM;
                }
                mutex_lock(&rdev->stats.lock);
@@ -305,28 +310,28 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
 
        /* write TPT entry */
        if (reset_tpt_entry)
-               memset(&tpt, 0, sizeof(tpt));
+               memset(tpt, 0, sizeof(*tpt));
        else {
-               tpt.valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
+               tpt->valid_to_pdid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_VALID_F |
                        FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_V((*stag & FW_RI_TPTE_STAGKEY_M)) |
                        FW_RI_TPTE_STAGSTATE_V(stag_state) |
                        FW_RI_TPTE_STAGTYPE_V(type) | FW_RI_TPTE_PDID_V(pdid));
-               tpt.locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
+               tpt->locread_to_qpid = cpu_to_be32(FW_RI_TPTE_PERM_V(perm) |
                        (bind_enabled ? FW_RI_TPTE_MWBINDEN_F : 0) |
                        FW_RI_TPTE_ADDRTYPE_V((zbva ? FW_RI_ZERO_BASED_TO :
                                                      FW_RI_VA_BASED_TO))|
                        FW_RI_TPTE_PS_V(page_size));
-               tpt.nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
+               tpt->nosnoop_pbladdr = !pbl_size ? 0 : cpu_to_be32(
                        FW_RI_TPTE_PBLADDR_V(PBL_OFF(rdev, pbl_addr)>>3));
-               tpt.len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
-               tpt.va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
-               tpt.va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
-               tpt.dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
-               tpt.len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
+               tpt->len_lo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len & 0xffffffffUL));
+               tpt->va_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to >> 32));
+               tpt->va_lo_fbo = cpu_to_be32((u32)(to & 0xffffffffUL));
+               tpt->dca_mwbcnt_pstag = cpu_to_be32(0);
+               tpt->len_hi = cpu_to_be32((u32)(len >> 32));
        }
        err = write_adapter_mem(rdev, stag_idx +
                                (rdev->lldi.vr->stag.start >> 5),
-                               sizeof(tpt), &tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
+                               sizeof(*tpt), tpt, skb, wr_waitp);
 
        if (reset_tpt_entry) {
                c4iw_put_resource(&rdev->resource.tpt_table, stag_idx);
@@ -334,6 +339,7 @@ static int write_tpt_entry(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev, u32 reset_tpt_entry,
                rdev->stats.stag.cur -= 32;
                mutex_unlock(&rdev->stats.lock);
        }
+       kfree(tpt);
        return err;
 }