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@mhei mhei commented Nov 13, 2024

The MAC addresses for the Control Pilot host interface and for the PLC firmware are stored in the EEPROM on the SoM.

Add the nvmem cells and register it for the Vertexcom driver, so that it automatically uses the stored MAC address.
(If the EEPROM is still empty, a random MAC is used as fallback.)

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Just for understanding the EEPROMs currently delivered from Phytec are considers as "empty" at this place but contains vendor data in other areas? I just want to understand the levels of emptyness.

The MAC addresses for the Control Pilot host interface
and for the PLC firmware are stored in the EEPROM on the SoM.

Add the nvmem cells and register it for the Vertexcom driver,
so that it automatically uses the stored MAC address.
(If the EEPROM is still empty, a random MAC is used as fallback.)

Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@chargebyte.com>
@mhei mhei force-pushed the v6.6.23-2.0.0-phy-cb-macs branch from 9567a14 to b983ddd Compare November 13, 2024 10:23
@lategoodbye lategoodbye self-requested a review November 13, 2024 11:07
@mhei mhei merged commit 29ed727 into v6.6.23-2.0.0-phy-cb Nov 13, 2024
@mhei mhei deleted the v6.6.23-2.0.0-phy-cb-macs branch November 13, 2024 14:32
lategoodbye pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 7, 2025
[ Upstream commit 88f7f56 ]

When a bio with REQ_PREFLUSH is submitted to dm, __send_empty_flush()
generates a flush_bio with REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH | REQ_SYNC,
which causes the flush_bio to be throttled by wbt_wait().

An example from v5.4, similar problem also exists in upstream:

    crash> bt 2091206
    PID: 2091206  TASK: ffff2050df92a300  CPU: 109  COMMAND: "kworker/u260:0"
     #0 [ffff800084a2f7f0] __switch_to at ffff80004008aeb8
     #1 [ffff800084a2f820] __schedule at ffff800040bfa0c4
     #2 [ffff800084a2f880] schedule at ffff800040bfa4b4
     #3 [ffff800084a2f8a0] io_schedule at ffff800040bfa9c4
     #4 [ffff800084a2f8c0] rq_qos_wait at ffff8000405925bc
     #5 [ffff800084a2f940] wbt_wait at ffff8000405bb3a0
     #6 [ffff800084a2f9a0] __rq_qos_throttle at ffff800040592254
     #7 [ffff800084a2f9c0] blk_mq_make_request at ffff80004057cf38
     #8 [ffff800084a2fa60] generic_make_request at ffff800040570138
     #9 [ffff800084a2fae0] submit_bio at ffff8000405703b4
    #10 [ffff800084a2fb50] xlog_write_iclog at ffff800001280834 [xfs]
    #11 [ffff800084a2fbb0] xlog_sync at ffff800001280c3c [xfs]
    #12 [ffff800084a2fbf0] xlog_state_release_iclog at ffff800001280df4 [xfs]
    #13 [ffff800084a2fc10] xlog_write at ffff80000128203c [xfs]
    #14 [ffff800084a2fcd0] xlog_cil_push at ffff8000012846dc [xfs]
    #15 [ffff800084a2fda0] xlog_cil_push_work at ffff800001284a2c [xfs]
    #16 [ffff800084a2fdb0] process_one_work at ffff800040111d08
    #17 [ffff800084a2fe00] worker_thread at ffff8000401121cc
    #18 [ffff800084a2fe70] kthread at ffff800040118de4

After commit 2def284 ("xfs: don't allow log IO to be throttled"),
the metadata submitted by xlog_write_iclog() should not be throttled.
But due to the existence of the dm layer, throttling flush_bio indirectly
causes the metadata bio to be throttled.

Fix this by conditionally adding REQ_IDLE to flush_bio.bi_opf, which makes
wbt_should_throttle() return false to avoid wbt_wait().

Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Tianxiang Peng <txpeng@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Hao Peng <flyingpeng@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
lategoodbye pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 7, 2025
[ Upstream commit ee684de ]

As shown in [1], it is possible to corrupt a BPF ELF file such that
arbitrary BPF instructions are loaded by libbpf. This can be done by
setting a symbol (BPF program) section offset to a large (unsigned)
number such that <section start + symbol offset> overflows and points
before the section data in the memory.

Consider the situation below where:
- prog_start = sec_start + symbol_offset    <-- size_t overflow here
- prog_end   = prog_start + prog_size

    prog_start        sec_start        prog_end        sec_end
        |                |                 |              |
        v                v                 v              v
    .....................|################################|............

The report in [1] also provides a corrupted BPF ELF which can be used as
a reproducer:

    $ readelf -S crash
    Section Headers:
      [Nr] Name              Type             Address           Offset
           Size              EntSize          Flags  Link  Info  Align
    ...
      [ 2] uretprobe.mu[...] PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000040
           0000000000000068  0000000000000000  AX       0     0     8

    $ readelf -s crash
    Symbol table '.symtab' contains 8 entries:
       Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
    ...
         6: ffffffffffffffb8   104 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 handle_tp

Here, the handle_tp prog has section offset ffffffffffffffb8, i.e. will
point before the actual memory where section 2 is allocated.

This is also reported by AddressSanitizer:

    =================================================================
    ==1232==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x7c7302fe0000 at pc 0x7fc3046e4b77 bp 0x7ffe64677cd0 sp 0x7ffe64677490
    READ of size 104 at 0x7c7302fe0000 thread T0
        #0 0x7fc3046e4b76 in memcpy (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xe4b76)
        #1 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__init_prog /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:856
        #2 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__add_programs /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:928
        #3 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__elf_collect /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:3930
        #4 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object_open /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:8067
        #5 0x00000040f176 in bpf_object__open_file /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:8090
        #6 0x000000400c16 in main /poc/poc.c:8
        #7 0x7fc3043d25b4 in __libc_start_call_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x35b4)
        #8 0x7fc3043d2667 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x3667)
        #9 0x000000400b34 in _start (/poc/poc+0x400b34)

    0x7c7302fe0000 is located 64 bytes before 104-byte region [0x7c7302fe0040,0x7c7302fe00a8)
    allocated by thread T0 here:
        #0 0x7fc3046e716b in malloc (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xe716b)
        #1 0x7fc3045ee600 in __libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0xb600)
        #2 0x7fc3045ef018 in __elf_getdata_rdlock (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0xc018)
        #3 0x00000040642f in elf_sec_data /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:3740

The problem here is that currently, libbpf only checks that the program
end is within the section bounds. There used to be a check
`while (sec_off < sec_sz)` in bpf_object__add_programs, however, it was
removed by commit 6245947 ("libbpf: Allow gaps in BPF program
sections to support overriden weak functions").

Add a check for detecting the overflow of `sec_off + prog_sz` to
bpf_object__init_prog to fix this issue.

[1] https://github.com/lmarch2/poc/blob/main/libbpf/libbpf.md

Fixes: 6245947 ("libbpf: Allow gaps in BPF program sections to support overriden weak functions")
Reported-by: lmarch2 <2524158037@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
Link: https://github.com/lmarch2/poc/blob/main/libbpf/libbpf.md
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250415155014.397603-1-vmalik@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
lategoodbye pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 7, 2025
[ Upstream commit bed18f0 ]

ACPICA commit 8829e70e1360c81e7a5a901b5d4f48330e021ea5

I'm Seunghun Han, and I work for National Security Research Institute of
South Korea.

I have been doing a research on ACPI and found an ACPI cache leak in ACPI
early abort cases.

Boot log of ACPI cache leak is as follows:
[    0.352414] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
[    0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
[    0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
[    0.353182] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
[    0.356028] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
[    0.356799] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)
[    0.360215] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-State: Slab cache still has objects
[    0.360648] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #10
[    0.361273] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
[    0.361873] Call Trace:
[    0.362243]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
[    0.362591]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
[    0.362944]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.363296]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
[    0.363646]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b
[    0.364000]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
[    0.364000]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f
[    0.364000]  ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
[    0.364000]  ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f
[    0.364000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.364000]  ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0
[    0.364000]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a
[    0.364000]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
[    0.364000]  ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
[    0.364000]  ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

I analyzed this memory leak in detail. I found that “Acpi-State” cache and
“Acpi-Parse” cache were merged because the size of cache objects was same
slab cache size.

I finally found “Acpi-Parse” cache and “Acpi-parse_ext” cache were leaked
using SLAB_NEVER_MERGE flag in kmem_cache_create() function.

Real ACPI cache leak point is as follows:
[    0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
[    0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
[    0.360101] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
[    0.361043] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
[    0.364016] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
[    0.365061] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)
[    0.368174] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-Parse: Slab cache still has objects
[    0.369332] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8
[    0.371256] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
[    0.372000] Call Trace:
[    0.372000]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
[    0.372000]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x56/0x7b
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f
[    0.372000]  ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
[    0.372000]  ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f
[    0.372000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.372000]  ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0
[    0.372000]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a
[    0.372000]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
[    0.372000]  ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
[    0.372000]  ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
[    0.388039] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-parse_ext: Slab cache still has objects
[    0.389063] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W
4.12.0-rc4-next-20170608+ #8
[    0.390557] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS
virtual_box 12/01/2006
[    0.392000] Call Trace:
[    0.392000]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
[    0.392000]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x6d/0x7b
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f
[    0.392000]  ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
[    0.392000]  ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f
[    0.392000]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
[    0.392000]  ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0
[    0.392000]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x189/0x20a
[    0.392000]  ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0
[    0.392000]  ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
[    0.392000]  ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

When early abort is occurred due to invalid ACPI information, Linux kernel
terminates ACPI by calling acpi_terminate() function. The function calls
acpi_ut_delete_caches() function to delete local caches (acpi_gbl_namespace_
cache, state_cache, operand_cache, ps_node_cache, ps_node_ext_cache).

But the deletion codes in acpi_ut_delete_caches() function only delete
slab caches using kmem_cache_destroy() function, therefore the cache
objects should be flushed before acpi_ut_delete_caches() function.

"Acpi-Parse" cache and "Acpi-ParseExt" cache are used in an AML parse
function, acpi_ps_parse_loop(). The function should complete all ops
using acpi_ps_complete_final_op() when an error occurs due to invalid
AML codes.
However, the current implementation of acpi_ps_complete_final_op() does not
complete all ops when it meets some errors and this cause cache leak.

This cache leak has a security threat because an old kernel (<= 4.9) shows
memory locations of kernel functions in stack dump. Some malicious users
could use this information to neutralize kernel ASLR.

To fix ACPI cache leak for enhancing security, I made a patch to complete all
ops unconditionally for acpi_ps_complete_final_op() function.

I hope that this patch improves the security of Linux kernel.

Thank you.

Link: acpica/acpica@8829e70e
Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2363774.ElGaqSPkdT@rjwysocki.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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