[PATCH v19 00/15] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 07:17:35PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 7:13 PM Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 03:20:59PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 04:16:49PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 4:02 PM Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 08:03:29PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > > > > > Should this go through the mm or the arm tree?
> > > > >
> > > > > I would certainly prefer to take at least the arm64 bits via the arm64 tree
> > > > > (i.e. patches 1, 2 and 15). We also need a Documentation patch describing
> > > > > the new ABI.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds good! Should I post those patches together with the
> > > > Documentation patches from Vincenzo as a separate patchset?
> > >
> > > Yes, please (although as you say below, we need a new version of those
> > > patches from Vincenzo to address the feedback on v5). The other thing I
> > > should say is that I'd be happy to queue the other patches in the series
> > > too, but some of them are missing acks from the relevant maintainers (e.g.
> > > the mm/ and fs/ changes).
> >
> > Ok, I've queued patches 1, 2, and 15 on a stable branch here:
> >
> >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/log/?h=for-next/tbi
> >
> > which should find its way into -next shortly via our for-next/core branch.
> > If you want to make changes, please send additional patches on top.
> >
> > This is targetting 5.4, but I will drop it before the merge window if
> > we don't have both of the following in place:
> >
> >   * Updated ABI documentation with Acks from Catalin and Kevin
> 
> Catalin has posted a new version today.
> 
> >   * The other patches in the series either Acked (so I can pick them up)
> >     or queued via some other tree(s) for 5.4.
> 
> So we have the following patches in this series:
> 
> 1. arm64: untag user pointers in access_ok and __uaccess_mask_ptr
> 2. arm64: Introduce prctl() options to control the tagged user addresses ABI
> 3. lib: untag user pointers in strn*_user
> 4. mm: untag user pointers passed to memory syscalls
> 5. mm: untag user pointers in mm/gup.c
> 6. mm: untag user pointers in get_vaddr_frames
> 7. fs/namespace: untag user pointers in copy_mount_options
> 8. userfaultfd: untag user pointers
> 9. drm/amdgpu: untag user pointers
> 10. drm/radeon: untag user pointers in radeon_gem_userptr_ioctl
> 11. IB/mlx4: untag user pointers in mlx4_get_umem_mr
> 12. media/v4l2-core: untag user pointers in videobuf_dma_contig_user_get
> 13. tee/shm: untag user pointers in tee_shm_register
> 14. vfio/type1: untag user pointers in vaddr_get_pfn
> 15. selftests, arm64: add a selftest for passing tagged pointers to kernel
> 
> 1, 2 and 15 have been picked by Will.
> 
> 11 has been picked up by Jason.
> 
> 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14 have acks from their subsystem maintainers.
> 
> 3 touches generic lib code, I'm not sure if there's a dedicated
> maintainer for that.

Andrew tends to pick up lib/ patches.

> The ones that are left are the mm ones: 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
> 
> Andrew, could you take a look and give your Acked-by or pick them up directly?

Given the subsystem Acks, it seems like 3-10 and 12 could all just go
via Andrew? I hope he agrees. :)

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Kees Cook