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Message-ID: <dd2de772-bd55-86e3-0812-2e01ae97f8fa@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:06:09 -0600
From:   Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
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        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>,
        Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        Alexander Deucher <Alexander.Deucher@....com>,
        Christian Koenig <Christian.Koenig@....com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
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        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>, enh <enh@...gle.com>,
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        Lee Smith <Lee.Smith@....com>,
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        Ruben Ayrapetyan <Ruben.Ayrapetyan@....com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>,
        Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 03/16] lib, arm64: untag user pointers in strn*_user

On 6/3/19 10:55 AM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> This patch is a part of a series that extends arm64 kernel ABI to allow to
> pass tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other
> than 0x00) as syscall arguments.
> 
> strncpy_from_user and strnlen_user accept user addresses as arguments, and
> do not go through the same path as copy_from_user and others, so here we
> need to handle the case of tagged user addresses separately.
> 
> Untag user pointers passed to these functions.
> 
> Note, that this patch only temporarily untags the pointers to perform
> validity checks, but then uses them as is to perform user memory accesses.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> ---
>  lib/strncpy_from_user.c | 3 ++-
>  lib/strnlen_user.c      | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>

> 
> diff --git a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
> index 023ba9f3b99f..dccb95af6003 100644
> --- a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
> +++ b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
>  #include <linux/errno.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/byteorder.h>
>  #include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
> @@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ long strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long count)
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	max_addr = user_addr_max();
> -	src_addr = (unsigned long)src;
> +	src_addr = (unsigned long)untagged_addr(src);
>  	if (likely(src_addr < max_addr)) {
>  		unsigned long max = max_addr - src_addr;
>  		long retval;
> diff --git a/lib/strnlen_user.c b/lib/strnlen_user.c
> index 7f2db3fe311f..28ff554a1be8 100644
> --- a/lib/strnlen_user.c
> +++ b/lib/strnlen_user.c
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
>  #include <linux/export.h>
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
>  
> @@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ long strnlen_user(const char __user *str, long count)
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	max_addr = user_addr_max();
> -	src_addr = (unsigned long)str;
> +	src_addr = (unsigned long)untagged_addr(str);
>  	if (likely(src_addr < max_addr)) {
>  		unsigned long max = max_addr - src_addr;
>  		long retval;
>