linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 07/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES

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Message-ID: <5723C33E.1020303@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:25:34 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
	"Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/10] x86/xsaves: Fix PTRACE frames for XSAVES

On 03/04/2016 10:12 AM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> +	for (i = 0; i < XFEATURE_MAX; i++) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Copy only in-use xstates.
> +		 */
> +		if (((header.xfeatures >> i) & 1) && xfeature_enabled(i)) {
> +			void *src = get_xsave_addr_no_check(xsave, i);

How could a bit in header.xfeatures get set if it is not set in
xfeature_enabled() aka xfeatures_mask aka XCR0?

...
> +int copyin_to_xsaves(const void *kbuf, const void __user *ubuf,
> +		     struct xregs_state *xsave)
> +{
> +	unsigned int offset, size;
> +	int i;
> +	u64 xfeatures;
> +
> +	offset = offsetof(struct xregs_state, header);
> +	size = sizeof(xfeatures);
> +
> +	if (kbuf)
> +		memcpy(&xfeatures, kbuf + offset, size);
> +	else if (__copy_from_user(&xfeatures, ubuf + offset, size))
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Reject if the user tries to set any supervisor xstates.
> +	 */
> +	if (xfeatures & XFEATURE_MASK_SUPERVISOR)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < XFEATURE_MAX; i++) {
> +		u64 mask = ((u64)1 << i);
> +
> +		if ((xfeatures & mask) && xfeature_enabled(i)) {
> +			void *dst = get_xsave_addr_no_check(xsave, i);
> +
> +			offset = xstate_offsets[i];
> +			size = xstate_sizes[i];
> +
> +			if (kbuf)
> +				memcpy(dst, kbuf + offset, size);
> +			else if (__copy_from_user(dst, ubuf + offset, size))
> +				return -EFAULT;
> +		}
> +	}

If a caller tries to pass a non-enabled xfeature in, we appear to just
silently drop it and return success.  Is that really what we want to do
or do we want to error out?