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<title>firewire: ohci: fix race in AR split packet handling</title>
<updated>2011-04-17T20:15:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
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<published>2010-10-25T09:42:20+00:00</published>
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commit a1f805e5e73a8fe166b71c6592d3837df0cd5e2e upstream.

When handling an AR buffer that has been completely filled, we assumed
that its descriptor will not be read by the controller and can be
overwritten.  However, when the last received packet happens to end at
the end of the buffer, the controller might not yet have moved on to the
next buffer and might read the branch address later.  If we overwrite
and free the page before that, the DMA context will either go dead
because of an invalid Z value, or go off into some random memory.

To fix this, ensure that the descriptor does not get overwritten by
using only the actual buffer instead of the entire page for reassembling
the split packet.  Furthermore, to avoid freeing the page too early,
move on to the next buffer only when some data in it guarantees that the
controller has moved on.

This should eliminate the remaining firewire-net problems.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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commit a1f805e5e73a8fe166b71c6592d3837df0cd5e2e upstream.

When handling an AR buffer that has been completely filled, we assumed
that its descriptor will not be read by the controller and can be
overwritten.  However, when the last received packet happens to end at
the end of the buffer, the controller might not yet have moved on to the
next buffer and might read the branch address later.  If we overwrite
and free the page before that, the DMA context will either go dead
because of an invalid Z value, or go off into some random memory.

To fix this, ensure that the descriptor does not get overwritten by
using only the actual buffer instead of the entire page for reassembling
the split packet.  Furthermore, to avoid freeing the page too early,
move on to the next buffer only when some data in it guarantees that the
controller has moved on.

This should eliminate the remaining firewire-net problems.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: fix buffer overflow in AR split packet handling</title>
<updated>2011-04-17T20:15:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-25T09:41:53+00:00</published>
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commit 85f7ffd5d2b320f73912b15fe8cef34bae297daf upstream.

When the controller had to split a received asynchronous packet into two
buffers, the driver tries to reassemble it by copying both parts into
the first page.  However, if size + rest &gt; PAGE_SIZE, i.e., if the yet
unhandled packets before the split packet, the split packet itself, and
any received packets after the split packet are together larger than one
page, then the memory after the first page would get overwritten.

To fix this, do not try to copy the data of all unhandled packets at
once, but copy the possibly needed data every time when handling
a packet.

This gets rid of most of the infamous crashes and data corruptions when
using firewire-net.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt; (cast PAGE_SIZE to size_t)
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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commit 85f7ffd5d2b320f73912b15fe8cef34bae297daf upstream.

When the controller had to split a received asynchronous packet into two
buffers, the driver tries to reassemble it by copying both parts into
the first page.  However, if size + rest &gt; PAGE_SIZE, i.e., if the yet
unhandled packets before the split packet, the split packet itself, and
any received packets after the split packet are together larger than one
page, then the memory after the first page would get overwritten.

To fix this, do not try to copy the data of all unhandled packets at
once, but copy the possibly needed data every time when handling
a packet.

This gets rid of most of the infamous crashes and data corruptions when
using firewire-net.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt; (cast PAGE_SIZE to size_t)
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: check for 1394a compliant IRM, fix inaccessibility of Sony camcorder</title>
<updated>2010-07-05T18:22:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-30T17:43:52+00:00</published>
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commit 10389536742cefbedecb67a5b2906f155cf3a1c3 upstream.

Per IEEE 1394 clause 8.4.2.3, a contender for the IRM role shall check
whether the current IRM complies to 1394a-2000 or later.  If not force a
compliant node (e.g. itself) to become IRM.  This was implemented in the
older ieee1394 driver but not yet in firewire-core.

An older Sony camcorder (Sony DCR-TRV25) which implements 1394-1995 IRM
but neither 1394a-2000 IRM nor BM was now found to cause an
interoperability bug:
  - Camcorder becomes root node when plugged in, hence gets IRM role.
  - firewire-core successfully contends for BM role, proceeds to perform
    gap count optimization and resets the bus.
  - Sony camcorder ignores presence of a BM (against the spec, this is
    a firmware bug), performs its idea of gap count optimization and
    resets the bus.
  - Preceding two steps are repeated endlessly, bus never settles,
    regular I/O is practically impossible.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/3913

This is an interoperability regression from the old to the new drivers.
Fix it indirectly by adding the 1394a IRM check.  The spec suggests
three and a half methods to determine 1394a compliance of a remote IRM;
we choose the method of testing the Config_ROM.Bus_Info.generation
field.  This is data that firewire-core should have readily available at
this point, i.e. does not require extra I/O.

Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt; (missing 1394a check)
Reported-by: H. S. &lt;hs.samix@gmail.com&gt; (issue with Sony DCR-TRV25)
Tested-by: H. S. &lt;hs.samix@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 10389536742cefbedecb67a5b2906f155cf3a1c3 upstream.

Per IEEE 1394 clause 8.4.2.3, a contender for the IRM role shall check
whether the current IRM complies to 1394a-2000 or later.  If not force a
compliant node (e.g. itself) to become IRM.  This was implemented in the
older ieee1394 driver but not yet in firewire-core.

An older Sony camcorder (Sony DCR-TRV25) which implements 1394-1995 IRM
but neither 1394a-2000 IRM nor BM was now found to cause an
interoperability bug:
  - Camcorder becomes root node when plugged in, hence gets IRM role.
  - firewire-core successfully contends for BM role, proceeds to perform
    gap count optimization and resets the bus.
  - Sony camcorder ignores presence of a BM (against the spec, this is
    a firmware bug), performs its idea of gap count optimization and
    resets the bus.
  - Preceding two steps are repeated endlessly, bus never settles,
    regular I/O is practically impossible.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/3913

This is an interoperability regression from the old to the new drivers.
Fix it indirectly by adding the 1394a IRM check.  The spec suggests
three and a half methods to determine 1394a compliance of a remote IRM;
we choose the method of testing the Config_ROM.Bus_Info.generation
field.  This is data that firewire-core should have readily available at
this point, i.e. does not require extra I/O.

Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt; (missing 1394a check)
Reported-by: H. S. &lt;hs.samix@gmail.com&gt; (issue with Sony DCR-TRV25)
Tested-by: H. S. &lt;hs.samix@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-04-22T19:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-22T19:54:54+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: ohci: wait for local CSR lock access to finish
  firewire: ohci: prevent aliasing of locally handled register addresses
  firewire: core: fw_iso_resource_manage: return -EBUSY when out of resources
  firewire: core: fix retries calculation in iso manage_channel()
  firewire: cdev: fix cut+paste mistake in disclaimer
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: ohci: wait for local CSR lock access to finish
  firewire: ohci: prevent aliasing of locally handled register addresses
  firewire: core: fw_iso_resource_manage: return -EBUSY when out of resources
  firewire: core: fix retries calculation in iso manage_channel()
  firewire: cdev: fix cut+paste mistake in disclaimer
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<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: wait for local CSR lock access to finish</title>
<updated>2010-04-19T17:58:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-12T08:35:44+00:00</published>
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Add a loop to wait for the controller to finish a locally-initiated CSR
lock operation.  Google shows some occurrences of the "swap not done
yet" message which might indicate that some OHCI controllers are not
fast enough to do the lock/swap in the time needed for one PCI access.

This also correctly handles the case where the lock operation did not
finish, instead of silently returning an uninitialized value.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Add a loop to wait for the controller to finish a locally-initiated CSR
lock operation.  Google shows some occurrences of the "swap not done
yet" message which might indicate that some OHCI controllers are not
fast enough to do the lock/swap in the time needed for one PCI access.

This also correctly handles the case where the lock operation did not
finish, instead of silently returning an uninitialized value.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: prevent aliasing of locally handled register addresses</title>
<updated>2010-04-19T17:58:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-12T08:35:30+00:00</published>
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We must compute the offset from the CSR register base with the
full 48 address bits to prevent matching with addresses whose
lower 32 bits happen to be equal with one of the specially
handled registers.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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We must compute the offset from the CSR register base with the
full 48 address bits to prevent matching with addresses whose
lower 32 bits happen to be equal with one of the specially
handled registers.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<title>firewire: core: fw_iso_resource_manage: return -EBUSY when out of resources</title>
<updated>2010-04-19T17:58:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-12T08:35:18+00:00</published>
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Returning -EIO for all errors would not allow clients to determine if
the resource allocation process itself failed, or if the resources are
not available.  (The latter information is needed by CMP to synchronize
restoring of overlayed connections after a bus reset.)

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Returning -EIO for all errors would not allow clients to determine if
the resource allocation process itself failed, or if the resources are
not available.  (The latter information is needed by CMP to synchronize
restoring of overlayed connections after a bus reset.)

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: fix retries calculation in iso manage_channel()</title>
<updated>2010-04-19T17:58:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-12T08:35:05+00:00</published>
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If there is a permanent error condition when communicating with the IRM,
after the sixth error, the retry variable will be decremented to -1.
If, in this case, the bits in channels_mask are not yet exhausted, the
next channel is retried 2^32 times.

To fix this, check that retry is never decremented beyond zero.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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If there is a permanent error condition when communicating with the IRM,
after the sixth error, the retry variable will be decremented to -1.
If, in this case, the bits in channels_mask are not yet exhausted, the
next channel is retried 2^32 times.

To fix this, check that retry is never decremented beyond zero.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-04-15T18:56:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-15T18:56:20+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: cdev: change license of exported header files to MIT license
  firewire: cdev: comment fixlet
  firewire: cdev: iso packet documentation
  firewire: cdev: fix information leak
  firewire: cdev: require quadlet-aligned headers for transmit packets
  firewire: cdev: disallow receive packets without header
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: cdev: change license of exported header files to MIT license
  firewire: cdev: comment fixlet
  firewire: cdev: iso packet documentation
  firewire: cdev: fix information leak
  firewire: cdev: require quadlet-aligned headers for transmit packets
  firewire: cdev: disallow receive packets without header
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<entry>
<title>firewire: cdev: fix information leak</title>
<updated>2010-04-10T14:51:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-07T06:30:50+00:00</published>
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A userspace client got to see uninitialized stack-allocated memory if it
specified an _IOC_READ type of ioctl and an argument size larger than
expected by firewire-core's ioctl handlers (but not larger than the
core's union ioctl_arg).

Fix this by clearing the requested buffer size to zero, but only at _IOR
ioctls.  This way, there is almost no runtime penalty to legitimate
ioctls.  The only legitimate _IOR is FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_CYCLE_TIMER with 12
or 16 bytes to memset.

[Another way to fix this would be strict checking of argument size (and
possibly direction) vs. command number.  However, we then need a lookup
table, and we need to allow for slight size deviations in case of 32bit
userland on 64bit kernel.]

Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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A userspace client got to see uninitialized stack-allocated memory if it
specified an _IOC_READ type of ioctl and an argument size larger than
expected by firewire-core's ioctl handlers (but not larger than the
core's union ioctl_arg).

Fix this by clearing the requested buffer size to zero, but only at _IOR
ioctls.  This way, there is almost no runtime penalty to legitimate
ioctls.  The only legitimate _IOR is FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_CYCLE_TIMER with 12
or 16 bytes to memset.

[Another way to fix this would be strict checking of argument size (and
possibly direction) vs. command number.  However, we then need a lookup
table, and we need to allow for slight size deviations in case of 32bit
userland on 64bit kernel.]

Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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