Re: [PATCH v17 04/15] mm, arm64: untag user pointers passed to memory syscalls

From: Khalid Aziz
Date: Wed Jun 19 2019 - 12:02:00 EST


On 6/12/19 5:43 AM, 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.
>
> This patch allows tagged pointers to be passed to the following memory
> syscalls: get_mempolicy, madvise, mbind, mincore, mlock, mlock2, mprotect,
> mremap, msync, munlock, move_pages.
>
> The mmap and mremap syscalls do not currently accept tagged addresses.
> Architectures may interpret the tag as a background colour for the
> corresponding vma.
>
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx>


> mm/madvise.c | 2 ++
> mm/mempolicy.c | 3 +++
> mm/migrate.c | 2 +-
> mm/mincore.c | 2 ++
> mm/mlock.c | 4 ++++
> mm/mprotect.c | 2 ++
> mm/mremap.c | 7 +++++++
> mm/msync.c | 2 ++
> 8 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
> index 628022e674a7..39b82f8a698f 100644
> --- a/mm/madvise.c
> +++ b/mm/madvise.c
> @@ -810,6 +810,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(madvise, unsigned long, start, size_t, len_in, int, behavior)
> size_t len;
> struct blk_plug plug;
>
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> +
> if (!madvise_behavior_valid(behavior))
> return error;
>
> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
> index 01600d80ae01..78e0a88b2680 100644
> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -1360,6 +1360,7 @@ static long kernel_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
> int err;
> unsigned short mode_flags;
>
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> mode_flags = mode & MPOL_MODE_FLAGS;
> mode &= ~MPOL_MODE_FLAGS;
> if (mode >= MPOL_MAX)
> @@ -1517,6 +1518,8 @@ static int kernel_get_mempolicy(int __user *policy,
> int uninitialized_var(pval);
> nodemask_t nodes;
>
> + addr = untagged_addr(addr);
> +
> if (nmask != NULL && maxnode < nr_node_ids)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index f2ecc2855a12..d22c45cf36b2 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1616,7 +1616,7 @@ static int do_pages_move(struct mm_struct *mm, nodemask_t task_nodes,
> goto out_flush;
> if (get_user(node, nodes + i))
> goto out_flush;
> - addr = (unsigned long)p;
> + addr = (unsigned long)untagged_addr(p);
>
> err = -ENODEV;
> if (node < 0 || node >= MAX_NUMNODES)
> diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
> index c3f058bd0faf..64c322ed845c 100644
> --- a/mm/mincore.c
> +++ b/mm/mincore.c
> @@ -249,6 +249,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mincore, unsigned long, start, size_t, len,
> unsigned long pages;
> unsigned char *tmp;
>
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> +
> /* Check the start address: needs to be page-aligned.. */
> if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
> return -EINVAL;
> diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
> index 080f3b36415b..e82609eaa428 100644
> --- a/mm/mlock.c
> +++ b/mm/mlock.c
> @@ -674,6 +674,8 @@ static __must_check int do_mlock(unsigned long start, size_t len, vm_flags_t fla
> unsigned long lock_limit;
> int error = -ENOMEM;
>
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> +
> if (!can_do_mlock())
> return -EPERM;
>
> @@ -735,6 +737,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
> {
> int ret;
>
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> +
> len = PAGE_ALIGN(len + (offset_in_page(start)));
> start &= PAGE_MASK;
>
> diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
> index bf38dfbbb4b4..19f981b733bc 100644
> --- a/mm/mprotect.c
> +++ b/mm/mprotect.c
> @@ -465,6 +465,8 @@ static int do_mprotect_pkey(unsigned long start, size_t len,
> const bool rier = (current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC) &&
> (prot & PROT_READ);
>
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> +
> prot &= ~(PROT_GROWSDOWN|PROT_GROWSUP);
> if (grows == (PROT_GROWSDOWN|PROT_GROWSUP)) /* can't be both */
> return -EINVAL;
> diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
> index fc241d23cd97..64c9a3b8be0a 100644
> --- a/mm/mremap.c
> +++ b/mm/mremap.c
> @@ -606,6 +606,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(mremap, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, old_len,
> LIST_HEAD(uf_unmap_early);
> LIST_HEAD(uf_unmap);
>
> + /*
> + * Architectures may interpret the tag passed to mmap as a background
> + * colour for the corresponding vma. For mremap we don't allow tagged
> + * new_addr to preserve similar behaviour to mmap.
> + */
> + addr = untagged_addr(addr);
> +
> if (flags & ~(MREMAP_FIXED | MREMAP_MAYMOVE))
> return ret;
>
> diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c
> index ef30a429623a..c3bd3e75f687 100644
> --- a/mm/msync.c
> +++ b/mm/msync.c
> @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(msync, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)
> int unmapped_error = 0;
> int error = -EINVAL;
>
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> +
> if (flags & ~(MS_ASYNC | MS_INVALIDATE | MS_SYNC))
> goto out;
> if (offset_in_page(start))
>