Re: [PATCH v16 02/16] arm64: untag user pointers in access_ok and __uaccess_mask_ptr

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 06:55:04PM +0200, 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.
> 
> copy_from_user (and a few other similar functions) are used to copy data
> from user memory into the kernel memory or vice versa. Since a user can
> provided a tagged pointer to one of the syscalls that use copy_from_user,
> we need to correctly handle such pointers.
> 
> Do this by untagging user pointers in access_ok and in __uaccess_mask_ptr,
> before performing access validity checks.
> 
> Note, that this patch only temporarily untags the pointers to perform the
> checks, but then passes them as is into the kernel internals.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> index e5d5f31c6d36..9164ecb5feca 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __range_ok(const void __user *addr, unsigned long si
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -#define access_ok(addr, size)	__range_ok(addr, size)
> +#define access_ok(addr, size)	__range_ok(untagged_addr(addr), size)
>  #define user_addr_max			get_fs
>  
>  #define _ASM_EXTABLE(from, to)						\
> @@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ static inline void uaccess_enable_not_uao(void)
>  
>  /*
>   * Sanitise a uaccess pointer such that it becomes NULL if above the
> - * current addr_limit.
> + * current addr_limit. In case the pointer is tagged (has the top byte set),
> + * untag the pointer before checking.
>   */
>  #define uaccess_mask_ptr(ptr) (__typeof__(ptr))__uaccess_mask_ptr(ptr)
>  static inline void __user *__uaccess_mask_ptr(const void __user *ptr)
> @@ -234,10 +235,11 @@ static inline void __user *__uaccess_mask_ptr(const void __user *ptr)
>  	void __user *safe_ptr;
>  
>  	asm volatile(
> -	"	bics	xzr, %1, %2\n"
> +	"	bics	xzr, %3, %2\n"
>  	"	csel	%0, %1, xzr, eq\n"
>  	: "=&r" (safe_ptr)
> -	: "r" (ptr), "r" (current_thread_info()->addr_limit)
> +	: "r" (ptr), "r" (current_thread_info()->addr_limit),
> +	  "r" (untagged_addr(ptr))
>  	: "cc");
>  
>  	csdb();
> -- 
> 2.22.0.rc1.311.g5d7573a151-goog
> 

-- 
Kees Cook