Re: [PATCH v2 18/18] uaccess: drop maining CONFIG_SET_FS users

[Eric W. Biederman]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> There are no remaining callers of set_fs(), so CONFIG_SET_FS
> can be removed globally, along with the thread_info field and
> any references to it.
>
> This turns access_ok() into a cheaper check against TASK_SIZE_MAX.
>
> With CONFIG_SET_FS gone, so drop all remaining references to
> set_fs()/get_fs(), mm_segment_t and uaccess_kernel().

For the bits I have looked at recently, and think I understand.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/exec.c                                 |  6 --
>  kernel/exit.c                             | 14 -----
>  kernel/kthread.c                          |  5 --
>
> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> index 79f2c9483302..bc68a0c089ac 100644
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1303,12 +1303,6 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
>  	if (retval)
>  		goto out_unlock;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Ensure that the uaccess routines can actually operate on userspace
> -	 * pointers:
> -	 */
> -	force_uaccess_begin();
> -
>  	if (me->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
>  		free_kthread_struct(me);
>  	me->flags &= ~(PF_RANDOMIZE | PF_FORKNOEXEC | PF_KTHREAD |
> diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
> index b00a25bb4ab9..0884a75bc2f8 100644
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -737,20 +737,6 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
>  
>  	WARN_ON(blk_needs_flush_plug(tsk));
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * If do_dead is called because this processes oopsed, it's possible
> -	 * that get_fs() was left as KERNEL_DS, so reset it to USER_DS before
> -	 * continuing. Amongst other possible reasons, this is to prevent
> -	 * mm_release()->clear_child_tid() from writing to a user-controlled
> -	 * kernel address.
> -	 *
> -	 * On uptodate architectures force_uaccess_begin is a noop.  On
> -	 * architectures that still have set_fs/get_fs in addition to handling
> -	 * oopses handles kernel threads that run as set_fs(KERNEL_DS) by
> -	 * default.
> -	 */
> -	force_uaccess_begin();
> -
>  	kcov_task_exit(tsk);
>  
>  	coredump_task_exit(tsk);
> diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
> index 38c6dd822da8..16c2275d4b50 100644
> --- a/kernel/kthread.c
> +++ b/kernel/kthread.c
> @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ struct kthread {
>  	int result;
>  	int (*threadfn)(void *);
>  	void *data;
> -	mm_segment_t oldfs;
>  	struct completion parked;
>  	struct completion exited;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
> @@ -1441,8 +1440,6 @@ void kthread_use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  		mmdrop(active_mm);
>  	else
>  		smp_mb();
> -
> -	to_kthread(tsk)->oldfs = force_uaccess_begin();
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_use_mm);
>  
> @@ -1457,8 +1454,6 @@ void kthread_unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	WARN_ON_ONCE(!(tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD));
>  	WARN_ON_ONCE(!tsk->mm);
>  
> -	force_uaccess_end(to_kthread(tsk)->oldfs);
> -
>  	task_lock(tsk);
>  	/*
>  	 * When a kthread stops operating on an address space, the loop