[PATCH v16 02/16] arm64: untag user pointers in access_ok and __uaccess_mask_ptr

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:07:03AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 06:53:27PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 06:55:04PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > index e5d5f31c6d36..9164ecb5feca 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static inline unsigned long __range_ok(const void __user *addr, unsigned long si
> > >  	return ret;
> > >  }
> > >  
> > > -#define access_ok(addr, size)	__range_ok(addr, size)
> > > +#define access_ok(addr, size)	__range_ok(untagged_addr(addr), size)
[...]
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> > index 3767fb21a5b8..fd191c5b92aa 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> > @@ -552,3 +552,18 @@ void arch_setup_new_exec(void)
> >  
> >  	ptrauth_thread_init_user(current);
> >  }
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Enable the relaxed ABI allowing tagged user addresses into the kernel.
> > + */
> > +int untagged_uaddr_set_mode(unsigned long arg)
> > +{
> > +	if (is_compat_task())
> > +		return -ENOTSUPP;
> > +	if (arg)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	set_thread_flag(TIF_UNTAGGED_UADDR);
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> 
> I think this should be paired with a flag clearing in copy_thread(),
> yes? (i.e. each binary needs to opt in)

It indeed needs clearing though not in copy_thread() as that's used on
clone/fork but rather in flush_thread(), called on the execve() path.

And a note to myself: I think PR_UNTAGGED_ADDR (not UADDR) looks better
in a uapi header, the user doesn't differentiate between uaddr and
kaddr.

-- 
Catalin