linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel

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Message-ID: <20180419093306.rn5bz264nxsn7d7c@node.shutemov.name>
Date:   Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:33:06 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:53:09PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> arm64 has a feature called Top Byte Ignore, which allows to embed pointer
> tags into the top byte of each pointer. Userspace programs (such as
> HWASan, a memory debugging tool [1]) might use this feature and pass
> tagged user pointers to the kernel through syscalls or other interfaces.
> 
> This patch makes a few of the kernel interfaces accept tagged user
> pointers. The kernel is already able to handle user faults with tagged
> pointers and has the untagged_addr macro, which this patchset reuses.
> 
> We're not trying to cover all possible ways the kernel accepts user
> pointers in one patchset, so this one should be considered as a start.

How many changes do you anticipate?

This patchset looks small and reasonable, but I see a potential to become a
boilerplate. Would we need to change every driver which implements ioctl()
to strip these bits?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov