Re: [PATCH] aio: Fix io_pgetevents() struct __compat_aio_sigset layout

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Oct 21 2019 - 16:15:58 EST


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 03:48:00PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 21-08-19 05:38:20, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > This type is used to pass the sigset_t from userland to the kernel,
> > but it was using the kernel native pointer type for the member
> > representing the compat userland pointer to the userland sigset_t.
> >
> > This messes up the layout, and makes the kernel eat up both the
> > userland pointer and the size members into the kernel pointer, and
> > then reads garbage into the kernel sigsetsize. Which makes the sigset_t
> > size consistency check fail, and consequently the syscall always
> > returns -EINVAL.
> >
> > This breaks both libaio and strace on 32-bit userland running on 64-bit
> > kernels. And there are apparently no users in the wild of the current
> > broken layout (at least according to codesearch.debian.org and a brief
> > check over github.com search). So it looks safe to fix this directly
> > in the kernel, instead of either letting userland deal with this
> > permanently with the additional overhead or trying to make the syscall
> > infer what layout userland used, even though this is also being worked
> > around in libaio to temporarily cope with kernels that have not yet
> > been fixed.
> >
> > We use a proper compat_uptr_t instead of a compat_sigset_t pointer.
> >
> > Fixes: 7a074e96 ("aio: implement io_pgetevents")
> > Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch seems to have fallen through the cracks. Al?

Looks like - back then I assumed that Jens would've picked it...
Applied to #fixes...