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lib/bch: fix possible stack overrun
The previous patch introduced very large kernel stack usage and a Makefile change to hide the warning about it. From what I can tell, a number of things went wrong here: - The BCH_MAX_T constant was set to the maximum value for 'n', not the maximum for 't', which is much smaller. - The stack usage is actually larger than the entire kernel stack on some architectures that can use 4KB stacks (m68k, sh, c6x), which leads to an immediate overrun. - The justification in the patch description claimed that nothing changed, however that is not the case even without the two points above: the configuration is machine specific, and most boards never use the maximum BCH_ECC_WORDS() length but instead have something much smaller. That maximum would only apply to machines that use both the maximum block size and the maximum ECC strength. The largest value for 't' that I could find is '32', which in turn leads to a 60 byte array instead of 2048 bytes. Making it '64' for future extension seems also worthwhile, with 120 bytes for the array. Anything larger won't fit into the OOB area on NAND flash. With that changed, the warning can be enabled again. Only linux-4.19+ contains the breakage, so this is only needed as a stable backport if it does not make it into the release. Fixes: 02361bc ("lib/bch: Remove VLA usage") Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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lib/Makefile

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@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE) += zlib_inflate/
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obj-$(CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE) += zlib_deflate/
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obj-$(CONFIG_REED_SOLOMON) += reed_solomon/
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obj-$(CONFIG_BCH) += bch.o
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CFLAGS_bch.o := $(call cc-option,-Wframe-larger-than=4500)
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obj-$(CONFIG_LZO_COMPRESS) += lzo/
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obj-$(CONFIG_LZO_DECOMPRESS) += lzo/
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obj-$(CONFIG_LZ4_COMPRESS) += lz4/

lib/bch.c

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#define GF_T(_p) (CONFIG_BCH_CONST_T)
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#define GF_N(_p) ((1 << (CONFIG_BCH_CONST_M))-1)
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#define BCH_MAX_M (CONFIG_BCH_CONST_M)
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#define BCH_MAX_T (CONFIG_BCH_CONST_T)
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#else
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#define GF_M(_p) ((_p)->m)
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#define GF_T(_p) ((_p)->t)
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#define GF_N(_p) ((_p)->n)
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#define BCH_MAX_M 15
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#define BCH_MAX_M 15 /* 2KB */
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#define BCH_MAX_T 64 /* 64 bit correction */
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#endif
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#define BCH_MAX_T (((1 << BCH_MAX_M) - 1) / BCH_MAX_M)
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#define BCH_ECC_WORDS(_p) DIV_ROUND_UP(GF_M(_p)*GF_T(_p), 32)
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#define BCH_ECC_BYTES(_p) DIV_ROUND_UP(GF_M(_p)*GF_T(_p), 8)
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#define BCH_ECC_MAX_WORDS DIV_ROUND_UP(BCH_MAX_M * BCH_MAX_T, 32)
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#define BCH_ECC_MAX_BYTES DIV_ROUND_UP(BCH_MAX_M * BCH_MAX_T, 8)
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#ifndef dbg
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#define dbg(_fmt, args...) do {} while (0)
@@ -202,6 +201,9 @@ void encode_bch(struct bch_control *bch, const uint8_t *data,
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const uint32_t * const tab3 = tab2 + 256*(l+1);
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const uint32_t *pdata, *p0, *p1, *p2, *p3;
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if (WARN_ON(r_bytes > sizeof(r)))
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return;
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if (ecc) {
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/* load ecc parity bytes into internal 32-bit buffer */
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load_ecc8(bch, bch->ecc_buf, ecc);
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*/
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goto fail;
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if (t > BCH_MAX_T)
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/*
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* we can support larger than 64 bits if necessary, at the
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* cost of higher stack usage.
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*/
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goto fail;
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/* sanity checks */
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if ((t < 1) || (m*t >= ((1 << m)-1)))
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/* invalid t value */

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