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powerpc/le: Big endian arguments for ppc_rtas()

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The ppc_rtas() syscall allows userspace to interact directly with RTAS.
For the moment, it assumes every thing is big endian and returns either
EINVAL or EFAULT when called in a little endian environment.

As suggested by Benjamin, to avoid bugs when userspace wants to pass
a non 32 bit value to RTAS, it is far better to stick with a simple
rationale: ppc_rtas() should be called with a big endian rtas_args
structure.

With this patch, it is now up to userspace to forge big endian arguments,
as expected by RTAS.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Greg Kurz 2014-03-19 17:02:51 +01:00 committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent e45fbae515
commit 599d287042
1 changed files with 13 additions and 9 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
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@ -1013,12 +1013,13 @@ struct pseries_errorlog *get_pseries_errorlog(struct rtas_error_log *log,
return NULL;
}
/* We assume to be passed big endian arguments */
asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args __user *uargs)
{
struct rtas_args args;
unsigned long flags;
char *buff_copy, *errbuf = NULL;
int nargs;
int nargs, nret, token;
int rc;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
@ -1027,10 +1028,13 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args __user *uargs)
if (copy_from_user(&args, uargs, 3 * sizeof(u32)) != 0)
return -EFAULT;
nargs = args.nargs;
nargs = be32_to_cpu(args.nargs);
nret = be32_to_cpu(args.nret);
token = be32_to_cpu(args.token);
if (nargs > ARRAY_SIZE(args.args)
|| args.nret > ARRAY_SIZE(args.args)
|| nargs + args.nret > ARRAY_SIZE(args.args))
|| nret > ARRAY_SIZE(args.args)
|| nargs + nret > ARRAY_SIZE(args.args))
return -EINVAL;
/* Copy in args. */
@ -1038,14 +1042,14 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args __user *uargs)
nargs * sizeof(rtas_arg_t)) != 0)
return -EFAULT;
if (args.token == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE)
if (token == RTAS_UNKNOWN_SERVICE)
return -EINVAL;
args.rets = &args.args[nargs];
memset(args.rets, 0, args.nret * sizeof(rtas_arg_t));
memset(args.rets, 0, nret * sizeof(rtas_arg_t));
/* Need to handle ibm,suspend_me call specially */
if (args.token == ibm_suspend_me_token) {
if (token == ibm_suspend_me_token) {
rc = rtas_ibm_suspend_me(&args);
if (rc)
return rc;
@ -1062,7 +1066,7 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args __user *uargs)
/* A -1 return code indicates that the last command couldn't
be completed due to a hardware error. */
if (args.rets[0] == -1)
if (be32_to_cpu(args.rets[0]) == -1)
errbuf = __fetch_rtas_last_error(buff_copy);
unlock_rtas(flags);
@ -1077,7 +1081,7 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args __user *uargs)
/* Copy out args. */
if (copy_to_user(uargs->args + nargs,
args.args + nargs,
args.nret * sizeof(rtas_arg_t)) != 0)
nret * sizeof(rtas_arg_t)) != 0)
return -EFAULT;
return 0;