[PATCH v19 03/15] lib: untag user pointers in strn*_user

Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl at google.com
Tue Jul 23 17:58:40 UTC 2019


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.

strncpy_from_user and strnlen_user accept user addresses as arguments, and
do not go through the same path as copy_from_user and others, so here we
need to handle the case of tagged user addresses separately.

Untag user pointers passed to these functions.

Note, that this patch only temporarily untags the pointers to perform
validity checks, but then uses them as is to perform user memory accesses.

Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
---
 lib/strncpy_from_user.c | 3 ++-
 lib/strnlen_user.c      | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
index 023ba9f3b99f..dccb95af6003 100644
--- a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
+++ b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
 #include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ long strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long count)
 		return 0;
 
 	max_addr = user_addr_max();
-	src_addr = (unsigned long)src;
+	src_addr = (unsigned long)untagged_addr(src);
 	if (likely(src_addr < max_addr)) {
 		unsigned long max = max_addr - src_addr;
 		long retval;
diff --git a/lib/strnlen_user.c b/lib/strnlen_user.c
index 7f2db3fe311f..28ff554a1be8 100644
--- a/lib/strnlen_user.c
+++ b/lib/strnlen_user.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 
 #include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
 
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ long strnlen_user(const char __user *str, long count)
 		return 0;
 
 	max_addr = user_addr_max();
-	src_addr = (unsigned long)str;
+	src_addr = (unsigned long)untagged_addr(str);
 	if (likely(src_addr < max_addr)) {
 		unsigned long max = max_addr - src_addr;
 		long retval;
-- 
2.22.0.709.g102302147b-goog



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