Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Fix strnlen_user access check

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 09:15:48AM +0800, Jinyang He wrote:
> On 04/12/2021 10:27 PM, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > index 91bc7fb..eafc99b 100644
> > > --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > @@ -630,8 +630,8 @@ static inline long strnlen_user(const char __user *s, long n)
> > >   {
> > >          long res;
> > > -       if (!access_ok(s, n))
> > > -               return -0;
> > > +       if (!access_ok(s, 1))
> > > +               return 0;
> > >          might_fault();
> > >          __asm__ __volatile__(
> > that's the fix I'd like to apply. Could someone send it as a formal
> > patch ? Thanks.
> > 
> > Thomas.
> > 
> Hi, Thomas,
> 
> I always think it is better to use access_ok(s, 0) on MIPS. I have been
> curious about the difference between access_ok(s, 0) and access_ok(s, 1)
> until I saw __access_ok() on RISCV at arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h
> 
> The __access_ok() is noted with `Ensure that the range [addr, addr+size)
> is within the process's address space`. Does the range checked by
> __access_ok() on MIPS is [addr, addr+size]. So if we want to use
> access_ok(s, 1), should we modify __access_ok()? Or my misunderstanding?

you are right, I'm going to apply

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mips/patch/20190209194718.1294-1-paul.burton@xxxxxxxx/

to fix that.

> More importantly, the implementation of strnlen_user in lib/strnlen_user.c
> is noted `we hit the address space limit, and we still had more characters
> the caller would have wanted. That's 0.` Does it make sense? It is not
> achieved on MIPS when hit __ua_limit, if only access_ok(s, 1) is used.

see the comment in arch/mips/lib/strnlen_user.S

 * Note: for performance reasons we deliberately accept that a user may
 *       make strlen_user and strnlen_user access the first few KSEG0
 *       bytes.  There's nothing secret there.  On 64-bit accessing beyond
 *       the maximum is a tad hairier ...

for 32bit kernels strnlen_user could possibly access KSEG0 and will find
a 0 sooner or later. I don't see much problems there. For 64bit kernels
strnlen_user will stop inside user space as there will be nothing
mapped after __UA_LIMIT.

Thomas.

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