linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/4] uaccess: Selectively open read or write user access

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Message-ID: <202004020047.401CEBED2@keescook>
Date:   Thu, 2 Apr 2020 00:51:26 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, airlied@...ux.ie,
        daniel@...ll.ch, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hpa@...or.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/4] uaccess: Selectively open read or write user
 access

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 07:34:17AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> [...]
> diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
> index 843dd17e6078..705ca7e418c6 100644
> --- a/kernel/compat.c
> +++ b/kernel/compat.c
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ long compat_get_bitmap(unsigned long *mask, const compat_ulong_t __user *umask,
>  	bitmap_size = ALIGN(bitmap_size, BITS_PER_COMPAT_LONG);
>  	nr_compat_longs = BITS_TO_COMPAT_LONGS(bitmap_size);
>  
> -	if (!user_access_begin(umask, bitmap_size / 8))
> +	if (!user_write_access_begin(umask, bitmap_size / 8))

This looks mismatched: should be user_read_access_begin()?

>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
>  	while (nr_compat_longs > 1) {
> @@ -211,11 +211,11 @@ long compat_get_bitmap(unsigned long *mask, const compat_ulong_t __user *umask,
>  	}
>  	if (nr_compat_longs)
>  		unsafe_get_user(*mask, umask++, Efault);
> -	user_access_end();
> +	user_read_access_end();
>  	return 0;
>  
>  Efault:
> -	user_access_end();
> +	user_read_access_end();
>  	return -EFAULT;
>  }

(These correctly end read access.)

>  
> @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ long compat_put_bitmap(compat_ulong_t __user *umask, unsigned long *mask,
>  	bitmap_size = ALIGN(bitmap_size, BITS_PER_COMPAT_LONG);
>  	nr_compat_longs = BITS_TO_COMPAT_LONGS(bitmap_size);
>  
> -	if (!user_access_begin(umask, bitmap_size / 8))
> +	if (!user_read_access_begin(umask, bitmap_size / 8))

And ..._write_... here?

>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
>  	while (nr_compat_longs > 1) {
> @@ -239,10 +239,10 @@ long compat_put_bitmap(compat_ulong_t __user *umask, unsigned long *mask,
>  	}
>  	if (nr_compat_longs)
>  		unsafe_put_user((compat_ulong_t)*mask, umask++, Efault);
> -	user_access_end();
> +	user_write_access_end();
>  	return 0;
>  Efault:
> -	user_access_end();
> +	user_write_access_end();
>  	return -EFAULT;
>  }

(These correctly end write access.)


All the others look correct. With the above fixed:

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook