linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 58/59] ARM: spectre-v1: use get_user() for __get

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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:07:13 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David A. Long" <dave.long@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 58/59] ARM: spectre-v1: use get_user() for __get_user()

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Commit b1cd0a14806321721aae45f5446ed83a3647c914 upstream.

Fixing __get_user() for spectre variant 1 is not sane: we would have to
add address space bounds checking in order to validate that the location
should be accessed, and then zero the address if found to be invalid.

Since __get_user() is supposed to avoid the bounds check, and this is
exactly what get_user() does, there's no point having two different
implementations that are doing the same thing.  So, when the Spectre
workarounds are required, make __get_user() an alias of get_user().

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h |   17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -280,6 +280,16 @@ static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t f
 #define user_addr_max() \
 	(segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS) ? ~0UL : get_fs())
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SPECTRE
+/*
+ * When mitigating Spectre variant 1, it is not worth fixing the non-
+ * verifying accessors, because we need to add verification of the
+ * address space there.  Force these to use the standard get_user()
+ * version instead.
+ */
+#define __get_user(x, ptr) get_user(x, ptr)
+#else
+
 /*
  * The "__xxx" versions of the user access functions do not verify the
  * address space - it must have been done previously with a separate
@@ -296,12 +306,6 @@ static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t f
 	__gu_err;							\
 })
 
-#define __get_user_error(x, ptr, err)					\
-({									\
-	__get_user_err((x), (ptr), err);				\
-	(void) 0;							\
-})
-
 #define __get_user_err(x, ptr, err)					\
 do {									\
 	unsigned long __gu_addr = (unsigned long)(ptr);			\
@@ -361,6 +365,7 @@ do {									\
 
 #define __get_user_asm_word(x, addr, err)			\
 	__get_user_asm(x, addr, err, ldr)
+#endif
 
 
 #define __put_user_switch(x, ptr, __err, __fn)				\