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Dave Martin abf73988a7 arm64: signal: Verify extra data is user-readable in sys_rt_sigreturn
Currently sys_rt_sigreturn() verifies that the base sigframe is
readable, but no similar check is performed on the extra data to
which an extra_context record points.

This matters because the extra data will be read with the
unprotected user accessors.  However, this is not a problem at
present because the extra data base address is required to be
exactly at the end of the base sigframe.  So, there would need to
be a non-user-readable kernel address within about 59K
(SIGFRAME_MAXSZ - sizeof(struct rt_sigframe)) of some address for
which access_ok(VERIFY_READ) returns true, in order for sigreturn
to be able to read kernel memory that should be inaccessible to the
user task.  This is currently impossible due to the untranslatable
address hole between the TTBR0 and TTBR1 address ranges.

Disappearance of the hole between the TTBR0 and TTBR1 mapping
ranges would require the VA size for TTBR0 and TTBR1 to grow to at
least 55 bits, and either the disabling of tagged pointers for
userspace or enabling of tagged pointers for kernel space; none of
which is currently envisaged.

Even so, it is wrong to use the unprotected user accessors without
an accompanying access_ok() check.

To avoid the potential for future surprises, this patch does an
explicit access_ok() check on the extra data space when parsing an
extra_context record.

Fixes: 33f082614c ("arm64: signal: Allow expansion of the signal frame")
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-11-03 15:24:11 +00:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-next/perf' into aarch64/for-next/core 2017-10-24 16:06:56 +01:00
arch arm64: signal: Verify extra data is user-readable in sys_rt_sigreturn 2017-11-03 15:24:11 +00:00
block block: fix a crash caused by wrong API 2017-09-25 08:56:05 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
drivers arm-ccn: perf: Prevent module unload while PMU is in use 2017-11-03 15:24:06 +00:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs regset: Add support for dynamically sized regsets 2017-11-03 15:24:11 +00:00
include regset: Add support for dynamically sized regsets 2017-11-03 15:24:11 +00:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel perf/core: Export AUX buffer helpers to modules 2017-10-18 12:53:30 +01:00
lib Merge branch 'parisc-4.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2017-09-23 06:14:06 -10:00
mm fs: Fix page cache inconsistency when mixing buffered and AIO DIO 2017-09-25 08:56:05 -06:00
net Revert "Bluetooth: Add option for disabling legacy ioctl interfaces" 2017-09-28 13:20:32 -07:00
samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
scripts objtool: Skip unreachable warnings for GCC 4.4 and older 2017-09-28 07:23:02 +02:00
security Merge commit 'keys-fixes-20170927' into fixes-v4.14-rc3 2017-09-28 09:11:28 +10:00
sound vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path 2017-09-14 20:18:45 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-01 12:06:31 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.