linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v17 05/15] mm, arm64: untag user pointers in mm/gup.c

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Message-ID: <dbf2dd46-0240-f8a9-203c-4f1234c16825@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:41:12 -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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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>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 05/15] mm, arm64: untag user pointers in mm/gup.c

On 6/12/19 5:43 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.
> 
> mm/gup.c provides a kernel interface that accepts user addresses and
> manipulates user pages directly (for example get_user_pages, that is used
> by the futex syscall). Since a user can provided tagged addresses, we need
> to handle this case.
> 
> Add untagging to gup.c functions that use user addresses for vma lookups.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> ---

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


>  mm/gup.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index ddde097cf9e4..c37df3d455a2 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -802,6 +802,8 @@ static long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
>  	if (!nr_pages)
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	start = untagged_addr(start);
> +
>  	VM_BUG_ON(!!pages != !!(gup_flags & FOLL_GET));
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -964,6 +966,8 @@ int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
>  	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>  	vm_fault_t ret, major = 0;
>  
> +	address = untagged_addr(address);
> +
>  	if (unlocked)
>  		fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
>  
>