From 39380b80d72723282f0ea1d1bbf2294eae45013e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Kosina Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 11:38:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm/pat, /dev/mem: Remove superfluous error message Currently it's possible for broken (or malicious) userspace to flood a kernel log indefinitely with messages a-la Program dmidecode tried to access /dev/mem between f0000->100000 because range_is_allowed() is case of CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM being turned on dumps this information each and every time devmem_is_allowed() fails. Reportedly userspace that is able to trigger contignuous flow of these messages exists. It would be possible to rate limit this message, but that'd have a questionable value; the administrator wouldn't get information about all the failing accessess, so then the information would be both superfluous and incomplete at the same time :) Returning EPERM (which is what is actually happening) is enough indication for userspace what has happened; no need to log this particular error as some sort of special condition. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Toshi Kani Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1607081137020.24757@cbobk.fhfr.pm Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 5 +---- drivers/char/mem.c | 6 +----- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c index fb0604f11eec..db00e3e2f3dc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c @@ -755,11 +755,8 @@ static inline int range_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size) return 1; while (cursor < to) { - if (!devmem_is_allowed(pfn)) { - pr_info("x86/PAT: Program %s tried to access /dev/mem between [mem %#010Lx-%#010Lx], PAT prevents it\n", - current->comm, from, to - 1); + if (!devmem_is_allowed(pfn)) return 0; - } cursor += PAGE_SIZE; pfn++; } diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c index 71025c2f6bbb..d633974e7f8b 100644 --- a/drivers/char/mem.c +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c @@ -66,12 +66,8 @@ static inline int range_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size) u64 cursor = from; while (cursor < to) { - if (!devmem_is_allowed(pfn)) { - printk(KERN_INFO - "Program %s tried to access /dev/mem between %Lx->%Lx.\n", - current->comm, from, to); + if (!devmem_is_allowed(pfn)) return 0; - } cursor += PAGE_SIZE; pfn++; }