Re: [PATCH v17 14/15] vfio/type1, arm64: untag user pointers in vaddr_get_pfn

[Auger Eric]

Hi Andrey,

On 6/12/19 1:43 PM, 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.
> 
> vaddr_get_pfn() uses provided user pointers for vma lookups, which can
> only by done with untagged pointers.
> 
> Untag user pointers in this function.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

Eric
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> index 3ddc375e7063..528e39a1c2dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> @@ -384,6 +384,8 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
>  
>  	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>  
> +	vaddr = untagged_addr(vaddr);
> +
>  	vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, vaddr, vaddr + 1);
>  
>  	if (vma && vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) {
>