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QEMU allows to create SD card with unrealistic sizes. This could
work, but some guests (at least Linux) consider sizes that are not
a power of 2 as a firmware bug and fix the card size to the next
power of 2.
While the possibility to use small SD card images has been seen as
a feature, it became a bug with CVE-2020-13253, where the guest is
able to do OOB read/write accesses past the image size end.
In a pair of commits we will fix CVE-2020-13253 as:
Read command is rejected if BLOCK_LEN_ERROR or ADDRESS_ERROR
occurred and no data transfer is performed.
Write command is rejected if BLOCK_LEN_ERROR or ADDRESS_ERROR
occurred and no data transfer is performed.
WP_VIOLATION errors are not modified: the error bit is set, we
stay in receive-data state, wait for a stop command. All further
data transfer is ignored. See the check on sd->card_status at the
beginning of sd_read_data() and sd_write_data().
While this is the correct behavior, in case QEMU create smaller SD
cards, guests still try to access past the image size end, and QEMU
considers this is an invalid address, thus "all further data transfer
is ignored". This is wrong and make the guest looping until
eventually timeouts.
Fix by not allowing invalid SD card sizes (suggesting the expected
size as a hint):
$ qemu-system-arm -M orangepi-pc -drive file=rootfs.ext2,if=sd,format=raw
qemu-system-arm: Invalid SD card size: 60 MiB
SD card size has to be a power of 2, e.g. 64 MiB.
You can resize disk images with 'qemu-img resize <imagefile> <new-size>'
(note that this will lose data if you make the image smaller than it currently is).
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200713183209.26308-8-f4bug@amsat.org>
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