linux/arch/arm64/include
Andrey Konovalov 2b835e24b5 arm64: untag user pointers in access_ok and __uaccess_mask_ptr
This patch is a part of a series that extends kernel ABI to allow to pass
tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other than
0x00) as syscall arguments.

copy_from_user (and a few other similar functions) are used to copy data
from user memory into the kernel memory or vice versa. Since a user can
provided a tagged pointer to one of the syscalls that use copy_from_user,
we need to correctly handle such pointers.

Do this by untagging user pointers in access_ok and in __uaccess_mask_ptr,
before performing access validity checks.

Note, that this patch only temporarily untags the pointers to perform the
checks, but then passes them as is into the kernel internals.

Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
[will: Add __force to casting in untagged_addr() to kill sparse warning]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2019-08-06 18:08:25 +01:00
..
asm arm64: untag user pointers in access_ok and __uaccess_mask_ptr 2019-08-06 18:08:25 +01:00
uapi/asm treewide: add "WITH Linux-syscall-note" to SPDX tag of uapi headers 2019-07-25 11:05:10 +02:00