From 7e3e888dfc138089f4c15a81b418e88f0978f744 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:58:36 -0700 Subject: libnvdimm/pfn: fix fsdax-mode namespace info-block zero-fields MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit At namespace creation time there is the potential for the "expected to be zero" fields of a 'pfn' info-block to be filled with indeterminate data. While the kernel buffer is zeroed on allocation it is immediately overwritten by nd_pfn_validate() filling it with the current contents of the on-media info-block location. For fields like, 'flags' and the 'padding' it potentially means that future implementations can not rely on those fields being zero. In preparation to stop using the 'start_pad' and 'end_trunc' fields for section alignment, arrange for fields that are not explicitly initialized to be guaranteed zero. Bump the minor version to indicate it is safe to assume the 'padding' and 'flags' are zero. Otherwise, this corruption is expected to benign since all other critical fields are explicitly initialized. Note The cc: stable is about spreading this new policy to as many kernels as possible not fixing an issue in those kernels. It is not until the change titled "libnvdimm/pfn: Stop padding pmem namespaces to section alignment" where this improper initialization becomes a problem. So if someone decides to backport "libnvdimm/pfn: Stop padding pmem namespaces to section alignment" (which is not tagged for stable), make sure this pre-requisite is flagged. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156092356065.979959.6681003754765958296.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Fixes: 32ab0a3f5170 ("libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V [ppc64] Cc: Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h') diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h index f58b849e455b..dfb2bcda8f5a 100644 --- a/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pfn.h @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct nd_pfn_sb { __le32 end_trunc; /* minor-version-2 record the base alignment of the mapping */ __le32 align; + /* minor-version-3 guarantee the padding and flags are zero */ u8 padding[4000]; __le64 checksum; }; -- cgit