linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:30:16 +0200
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
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        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chintan Pandya <cpandya@...eaurora.org>,
        Jacob Bramley <Jacob.Bramley@....com>,
        Ruben Ayrapetyan <Ruben.Ayrapetyan@....com>,
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        Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Ramana Radhakrishnan <Ramana.Radhakrishnan@....com>,
        Evgeniy Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
>> While I support this work, as a maintainer I'd like to understand
>> whether we'd be in a continuous chase of ABI breaks with every kernel
>> release or we have a better way to identify potential issues. Is there
>> any way to statically analyse conversions from __user ptr to long for
>> example? Or, could we get the compiler to do this for us?
>
>
> OK, got it, I'll try to figure out a way to find these conversions.

I've prototyped a checker on top of clang static analyzer (initially
looked at sparse, but couldn't find any documentation or examples).
The results are here [1], search for "warning: user pointer cast".
Sharing in case anybody wants to take a look, will look at them myself
tomorrow.

[1] https://gist.github.com/xairy/433edd5c86456a64026247cb2fef2115