Sashiko notes:
> if __snp_alloc_firmware_pages() returns NULL under memory pressure, is it
> safe to pass it directly to page_address()?
>
> On architectures without HASHED_PAGE_VIRTUAL, page_address(NULL) might
> compute a deterministic but invalid, non-zero virtual address. The
> subsequent if (tio_status) check would then evaluate to true, and
> sev_tsm_init_locked() would dereference the invalid pointer.
Indeed, page_address(NULL) will return non-NULL garbage here. Fix this by
checking the page allocation itself for NULL, not the resulting virtual
address.
Fixes: 4be423572da1 ("crypto/ccp: Implement SEV-TIO PCIe IDE (phase1)")
Reported-by: Sashiko
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260324161301.1353976-1-tycho%40kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen (AMD) <tycho@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
&snp_panic_notifier);
if (data.tio_en) {
+ struct page *page;
+
/*
* This executes with the sev_cmd_mutex held so down the stack
* snp_reclaim_pages(locked=false) might be needed (which is extremely
* Instead of exporting __snp_alloc_firmware_pages(), allocate a page
* for this one call here.
*/
- void *tio_status = page_address(__snp_alloc_firmware_pages(
- GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO, 0, true));
+ page = __snp_alloc_firmware_pages(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO,
+ 0, true);
+ if (page) {
+ void *tio_status = page_address(page);
- if (tio_status) {
sev_tsm_init_locked(sev, tio_status);
- __snp_free_firmware_pages(virt_to_page(tio_status), 0, true);
+
+ __snp_free_firmware_pages(page, 0, true);
}
}