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Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2016 15:36:29 -0500
From:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
	Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 50/51] x86/mm: move arch_within_stack_frames() to
 usercopy.c

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 01:06:41PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:36:21AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
> >> > When I tried to port arch_within_stack_frames() to use the new unwinder,
> >> > I got a nightmare include file "header soup" scenario when unwind.h was
> >> > included from thread_info.h.  And anyway, I think thread_info.h isn't
> >> > really an appropriate place for this function.  So move it to usercopy.c
> >> > instead.
> >> >
> >> > Since it relies on its parent's stack pointer, and the function is no
> >> > longer inlined, the arguments to the __builtin_frame_address() calls
> >> > have been incremented.
> >>
> >> Cool, looks good (minor change noted below). This patch might be a
> >> good place to drop this from mm/Makefile too:
> >>
> >> # Since __builtin_frame_address does work as used, disable the warning.
> >> CFLAGS_usercopy.o += $(call cc-disable-warning, frame-address)
> >>
> >> Since frame-address warnings have been disabled globally now since
> >> commit 124a3d88fa20 ("Disable "frame-address" warning").
> >
> > Ok, I'll do that with the next patch (51/51) which removes the
> > __builtin_frame_address() calls.
> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
> >> > ---
> >> >  arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 46 ++++++++------------------------------
> >> >  arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c            | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> >  2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> >> > index 8b7c8d8e..fd849e6 100644
> >> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> >> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> >> > @@ -176,49 +176,21 @@ static inline unsigned long current_stack_pointer(void)
> >> >         return sp;
> >> >  }
> >> >
> >> > -/*
> >> > - * Walks up the stack frames to make sure that the specified object is
> >> > - * entirely contained by a single stack frame.
> >> > - *
> >> > - * Returns:
> >> > - *              1 if within a frame
> >> > - *             -1 if placed across a frame boundary (or outside stack)
> >> > - *              0 unable to determine (no frame pointers, etc)
> >> > - */
> >> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY
> >>
> >> This ifdef shouldn't be needed: the arch_within_stack_frames wasn't
> >> designed to depend on it.
> >>
> >> > +#ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
> >> > +int arch_within_stack_frames(const void * const stack,
> >> > +                            const void * const stackend,
> >> > +                            const void *obj, unsigned long len);
> >> > +#else
> >> >  static inline int arch_within_stack_frames(const void * const stack,
> >> >                                            const void * const stackend,
> >> >                                            const void *obj, unsigned long len)
> >> >  {
> >> > -#if defined(CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER)
> >> > -       const void *frame = NULL;
> >> > -       const void *oldframe;
> >> > -
> >> > -       oldframe = __builtin_frame_address(1);
> >> > -       if (oldframe)
> >> > -               frame = __builtin_frame_address(2);
> >> > -       /*
> >> > -        * low ----------------------------------------------> high
> >> > -        * [saved bp][saved ip][args][local vars][saved bp][saved ip]
> >> > -        *                     ^----------------^
> >> > -        *               allow copies only within here
> >> > -        */
> >> > -       while (stack <= frame && frame < stackend) {
> >> > -               /*
> >> > -                * If obj + len extends past the last frame, this
> >> > -                * check won't pass and the next frame will be 0,
> >> > -                * causing us to bail out and correctly report
> >> > -                * the copy as invalid.
> >> > -                */
> >> > -               if (obj + len <= frame)
> >> > -                       return obj >= oldframe + 2 * sizeof(void *) ? 1 : -1;
> >> > -               oldframe = frame;
> >> > -               frame = *(const void * const *)frame;
> >> > -       }
> >> > -       return -1;
> >> > -#else
> >> >         return 0;
> >> > -#endif
> >> >  }
> >> > +#endif /* CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER */
> >> > +#endif /* CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY */
> >> > +
> >> >
> >> >  #else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
> >> > index b490878..96ce151 100644
> >> > --- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
> >> > +++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
> >> > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
> >> >
> >> >  #include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
> >> >  #include <linux/sched.h>
> >> > +#include <asm/unwind.h>
> >> >
> >> >  /*
> >> >   * We rely on the nested NMI work to allow atomic faults from the NMI path; the
> >> > @@ -34,3 +35,45 @@ copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
> >> >         return ret;
> >> >  }
> >> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi);
> >> > +
> >> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY
> >>
> >> Same thing: no need to check CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY here: it should
> >> be checking CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER instead.
> >
> > Now that this function is no longer inlined and is instead compiled in
> > its own .c file, I was thinking that the tinyconfig folks would
> > appreciate not growing the text size if there's no reason to do so.
> > Keeping this #ifdef won't break anything, right?
> 
> Hrm, well, I guess not, but it means if anyone else wants to use it
> they have to remove the ifdef. I guess I don't object that much. :P

Ah.  Do you expect other uses for it?

> > Also I moved the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER check to the header file so it
> > doesn't pollute the .c code.
> 
> Right, but if FRAME_POINTER=n and HARDENED_USERCOPY=y you'll get a
> build error about it being both in the .h and the .c file, if I'm
> reading that correctly.

Oh, right.

-- 
Josh

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