netdev - Re: [PATCH 33/38] arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:24:59 +0000
From:   Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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        Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 33/38] arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for
 hardened usercopy

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 02:03:05AM +0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> This whitelists the FPU register state portion of the thread_struct for
> copying to userspace, instead of the default entire structure.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
> Cc: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@....com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                 | 1 +
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index a93339f5178f..c84477e6a884 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ config ARM64
>       select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
>       select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if COMPAT
>       select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
> +     select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
>       select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
>       select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>       select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
> index 023cacb946c3..e58a5864ec89 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
> @@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ struct thread_struct {
>       struct debug_info       debug;          /* debugging */
>  };
>
> +/* Whitelist the fpsimd_state for copying to userspace. */
> +static inline void arch_thread_struct_whitelist(unsigned long *offset,
> +                                             unsigned long *size)
> +{
> +     *offset = offsetof(struct thread_struct, fpsimd_state);
> +     *size = sizeof(struct fpsimd_state);

This should be fpsimd_state.user_fpsimd (fpsimd_state.cpu is important
for correctly context switching and not supposed to be user-accessible.
A user copy that encompasses that is definitely a bug).

Cheers
---Dave
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