arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel
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- Rebased onto 4.17-rc1.
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Cover letter [PATCH 0/6] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel
Hi!
arm64 has a feature called Top Byte Ignore, which allows to embed pointer tags into the top byte of each pointer. Userspace programs (such as HWASan, a memory debugging tool [1]) might use this feature and pass tagged user pointers to the kernel through syscalls or other interfaces.
This patch makes a few of the kernel interfaces accept tagged user pointers. The kernel is already able to handle user faults with tagged pointers and has the untagged_addr macro, which this patchset reuses.
We're not trying to cover all possible ways the kernel accepts user pointers in one patchset, so this one should be considered as a start.
Thanks!
[1] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/HardwareAssistedAddressSanitizerDesign.html
Changes in v1:
- Rebased onto 4.17-rc1.
Changes in RFC v2:
- Added "#ifndef untagged_addr..." fallback in linux/uaccess.h instead of defining it for each arch individually.
- Updated Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt.
- Dropped ?mm, arm64: untag user addresses in memory syscalls?.
- Rebased onto 3eb2ce82 (4.16-rc7).
Andrey Konovalov (6):
arm64: add type casts to untagged_addr macro
uaccess: add untagged_addr definition for other arches
arm64: untag user addresses in copy_from_user and others mm, arm64: untag user addresses in mm/gup.c
lib, arm64: untag addrs passed to strncpy_from_user and strnlen_user
arm64: update Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt | 5 +++-- arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 9 +++++++-- include/linux/uaccess.h | 4 ++++ lib/strncpy_from_user.c | 2 ++ lib/strnlen_user.c | 2 ++ mm/gup.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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