linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sg, bsg: mitigate read/write abuse, block uaccess in release

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Date:   Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:40:09 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
        Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sg, bsg: mitigate read/write abuse, block uaccess in
 release

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 05:23:35PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:

> I've mostly copypasted ib_safe_file_access() over as
> scsi_safe_file_access() because I couldn't find a good common header -
> please tell me if you know a better way.
> The duplicate pr_err_once() calls are so that each of them fires once;
> otherwise, this would probably have to be a macro.
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
> ---

WTF do you mean, in ->release()?  That makes no sense whatsoever -
what kind of copy_{to,from}_user() would be possible in there?