From: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
To: Aswin Karuvally <aswin@linux.ibm.com>,
Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
Cc: Julian Ruess <julianr@linux.ibm.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] s390/ism: Zerorize dmb at allocation
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:47:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928114741.4135978-1-wintera@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
Sashiko reported [1] that 'Missing __GFP_ZERO in folio_alloc() causes
uninitialized kernel memory to be exposed in the receive message buffer'.
An ism dmb is receive-only, so the data is not leaked to a remote peer. In
general the smc kernel module (dibs client) will only push newly received
data to userspace. We still should not have uninitialized data in a receive
buffer.
Since
commit 750afb08ca71 ("cross-tree: phase out dma_zalloc_coherent()")
dma_alloc_coherent no longer required the __GFP_ZERO flag, but when
commit 83781384a96b ("s390/ism: Properly fix receive message buffer allocation")
switched to folio_alloc(), it should have added back the __GFP_ZERO flag.
Add __GFP_ZERO flag and state in dibs.h that register_dbm() provides
a zerorized buffer (dibs_lo already does).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-s390/20260903143746.A5CC41F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org/ [1]
Fixes: 83781384a96b ("s390/ism: Properly fix receive message buffer allocation")
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julian Ruess <julianr@linux.ibm.com>
---
drivers/s390/net/ism_drv.c | 3 ++-
include/linux/dibs.h | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/ism_drv.c b/drivers/s390/net/ism_drv.c
index 035b233abb4e..405abd99c820 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/ism_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/ism_drv.c
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ static int ism_alloc_dmb(struct ism_dev *ism, struct dibs_dmb *dmb)
return -EINVAL;
folio = folio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC |
- __GFP_NORETRY, get_order(dmb->dmb_len));
+ __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_ZERO,
+ get_order(dmb->dmb_len));
if (!folio) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/include/linux/dibs.h b/include/linux/dibs.h
index d3e0777f25ae..0c10c224bcca 100644
--- a/include/linux/dibs.h
+++ b/include/linux/dibs.h
@@ -261,12 +261,12 @@ struct dibs_dev_ops {
* @vlan_id: deprecated, ignored if device does not support vlan
* Upon return in addition the following fields will be valid:
* @dmb_tok: for usage by remote and local devices and clients
- * @cpu_addr: allocated buffer
+ * @cpu_addr: allocated, zerorized buffer
* @idx: dmb index, unique per dibs device
* @dma_addr: to be used by device driver,if applicable
*
- * Allocate a dmb buffer and register it with this device and for this
- * client.
+ * Allocate and zerorize a dmb buffer and register it with this device
+ * and for this client.
* Return: zero on success
*/
int (*register_dmb)(struct dibs_dev *dev, struct dibs_dmb *dmb,
--
2.53.0
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