Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 1/2] rseq: validate rseq_cs fields are < TASK_SIZE

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

----- On Jun 29, 2018, at 11:54 AM, Linus Torvalds torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:27 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> You simply can't have it both ways.
> 
> Put another way.
> 
> This is ok in the native path:
> 
>        if ((unsigned long) rseq_cs->abort_ip != rseq_cs->abort_ip)
>                return -EINVAL;
> 
> because it's checking that the value fits in the native register size
> (and it also ends up being a no-op if the native size is the same size
> as abort_ip).
> 
> And this is very much ok in a compat syscall:
> 
>        if (rseq_cs->abort_ip & ~(unsigned long)-1u)
>                return -EINVAL;
> 
> because it's checking that the pointer doesn't have (invalid in
> compat) high bits set.
> 
> But it is NOT OK to say "the rseq system call doesn't have any compat
> syscall, but we'll do that compat check in the native case, because we
> worry about compat issues".
> 
> See what I'm saying? Either you worry about compat issues (and have a
> compat syscall), or you don't.
> 
> The whole "let's not do a compat syscall, but then check compat issues
> at run-time in the native system call because compat processes will
> use it" is braindamage.

This code is not invoked from syscalls, but rather on return from
interrupt/trap after a preemption.

So a compat system call does not solve it. Unless we grab the "compat"
state on rseq registration, save it in a rseq_compat flag within the
task struct, and then use it on return from interrupt/trap/syscall.
Otherwise we need to figure out whether we are dealing with a compat
task when interrupt and trap context return to userspace. We had
is_compat_task() for that before, but now it has vanished from x86.
We could use user_64bit_mode(struct pt_regs *) on x86, but it does not
exist on other architectures.

One possibility is to introduce a new API that calls user_64bit_mode()
on x86, and is_compat_task() on other archs.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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