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dax: explain how read(2)/write(2) addresses are validated

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Add a comment explaining how the user addresses provided to read(2) and
write(2) are validated in the DAX I/O path.

We call dax_copy_from_iter() or copy_to_iter() on these without calling
access_ok() first in the DAX code, and there was a concern that the user
might be able to read/write to arbitrary kernel addresses with this
path.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816173615.10098-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ross Zwisler 2017-09-06 16:18:54 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -1004,6 +1004,11 @@ dax_iomap_actor(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, loff_t length, void *data,
if (map_len > end - pos)
map_len = end - pos;
/*
* The userspace address for the memory copy has already been
* validated via access_ok() in either vfs_read() or
* vfs_write(), depending on which operation we are doing.
*/
if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE)
map_len = dax_copy_from_iter(dax_dev, pgoff, kaddr,
map_len, iter);