[ Upstream commit edb64bca50cd736c6894cc6081d5263c007ce005 ]
In case of devboards we really often disable bootloader and load
Linux image in memory via JTAG. Even if kernel tries to verify
uboot_tag and uboot_arg there is sill a chance that we treat some
garbage in registers as valid u-boot arguments in JTAG case.
E.g. it is enough to have '1' in r0 to treat any value in r2 as
a boot command line.
So check that magic number passed from u-boot is correct and drop
u-boot arguments otherwise. That helps to reduce the possibility
of using garbage as u-boot arguments in JTAG case.
We can safely check U-boot magic value (0x0) in linux passed via
r1 register as U-boot pass it from the beginning. So there is no
backward-compatibility issues.
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <eugeniy.palt...@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org>
---
arch/arc/kernel/head.S | 1 +
arch/arc/kernel/setup.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/head.S b/arch/arc/kernel/head.S
index 1f945d0f40da..208bf2c9e7b0 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/head.S
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ ENTRY(stext)
; r2 = pointer to uboot provided cmdline or external DTB in mem
; These are handled later in handle_uboot_args()
st r0, [@uboot_tag]
+ st r1, [@uboot_magic]
st r2, [@uboot_arg]
#endif
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
index 9119bea503a7..9f96120eee6e 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/setup.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ unsigned int intr_to_DE_cnt;
/* Part of U-boot ABI: see head.S */
int __initdata uboot_tag;
+int __initdata uboot_magic;
char __initdata *uboot_arg;
const struct machine_desc *machine_desc;
@@ -400,6 +401,8 @@ static inline bool uboot_arg_invalid(unsigned long addr)
#define UBOOT_TAG_NONE 0
#define UBOOT_TAG_CMDLINE 1
#define UBOOT_TAG_DTB 2
+/* We always pass 0 as magic from U-boot */
+#define UBOOT_MAGIC_VALUE 0
void __init handle_uboot_args(void)
{
@@ -415,6 +418,11 @@ void __init handle_uboot_args(void)
goto ignore_uboot_args;
}
+ if (uboot_magic != UBOOT_MAGIC_VALUE) {
+ pr_warn(IGNORE_ARGS "non zero uboot magic\n");
+ goto ignore_uboot_args;
+ }
+
if (uboot_tag != UBOOT_TAG_NONE &&
uboot_arg_invalid((unsigned long)uboot_arg)) {
pr_warn(IGNORE_ARGS "invalid uboot arg: '%px'\n", uboot_arg);
--
2.19.1
