linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 04/12] mm, arm64: untag user pointers passed to memory syscalls

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Message-ID: <81ea4e77-90a4-4fd9-2bc8-135e0da30044@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:07:45 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 04/12] mm, arm64: untag user pointers passed to memory
 syscalls

On 2/22/19 4:53 AM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> --- a/mm/mprotect.c
> +++ b/mm/mprotect.c
> @@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ static int do_mprotect_pkey(unsigned long start, size_t len,
>  SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mprotect, unsigned long, start, size_t, len,
>  		unsigned long, prot)
>  {
> +	start = untagged_addr(start);
>  	return do_mprotect_pkey(start, len, prot, -1);
>  }
>  
> @@ -586,6 +587,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mprotect, unsigned long, start, size_t, len,
>  SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pkey_mprotect, unsigned long, start, size_t, len,
>  		unsigned long, prot, int, pkey)
>  {
> +	start = untagged_addr(start);
>  	return do_mprotect_pkey(start, len, prot, pkey);
>  }

This seems to have taken the approach of going as close as possible to
the syscall boundary and untagging the pointer there.  I guess that's
OK, but it does lead to more churn than necessary.  For instance, why
not just do the untagging in do_mprotect_pkey()?

I think that's an overall design question.  I kinda asked the same thing
about patching call sites vs. VMA lookup functions.