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x86/MCE: Serialize sysfs changes
authorSeunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:21:43 +0000 (15:21 +0100)
committerBrian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Wed, 2 Jan 2019 17:49:24 +0000 (12:49 -0500)
commit3ff7b0556f711e6213735fb9bc8fa8068204ce7b
tree69cd1d430b2dd76d54bb0be75a5cde500119521e
parenta55d9576cde8739c995f273dbcf69ba197238231
x86/MCE: Serialize sysfs changes

The check_interval file in

  /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck<cpu number>

directory is a global timer value for MCE polling. If it is changed by one
CPU, mce_restart() broadcasts the event to other CPUs to delete and restart
the MCE polling timer and __mcheck_cpu_init_timer() reinitializes the
mce_timer variable.

If more than one CPU writes a specific value to the check_interval file
concurrently, mce_timer is not protected from such concurrent accesses and
all kinds of explosions happen. Since only root can write to those sysfs
variables, the issue is not a big deal security-wise.

However, concurrent writes to these configuration variables is void of
reason so the proper thing to do is to serialize the access with a mutex.

Boris:

 - Make store_int_with_restart() use device_store_ulong() to filter out
   negative intervals
 - Limit min interval to 1 second
 - Correct locking
 - Massage commit message

Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180302202706.9434-1-kkamagui@gmail.com
(cherry picked from commit b3b7c4795ccab5be71f080774c45bbbcc75c2aaf)

Orabug: 29149888
CVE: CVE-2018-7995

Reviewed-by: Somasundaram Krishnasamy <somasundaram.krishnasamy@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.pais@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c