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make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()'

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Originally, the rule used to be that you'd have to do access_ok()
separately, and then user_access_begin() before actually doing the
direct (optimized) user access.

But experience has shown that people then decide not to do access_ok()
at all, and instead rely on it being implied by other operations or
similar.  Which makes it very hard to verify that the access has
actually been range-checked.

If you use the unsafe direct user accesses, hardware features (either
SMAP - Supervisor Mode Access Protection - on x86, or PAN - Privileged
Access Never - on ARM) do force you to use user_access_begin().  But
nothing really forces the range check.

By putting the range check into user_access_begin(), we actually force
people to do the right thing (tm), and the range check vill be visible
near the actual accesses.  We have way too long a history of people
trying to avoid them.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds
2019-01-04 12:56:09 -08:00
parent 0b2c8f8b6b
commit 594cc251fd
7 changed files with 36 additions and 20 deletions
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@@ -354,10 +354,9 @@ long compat_get_bitmap(unsigned long *mask, const compat_ulong_t __user *umask,
bitmap_size = ALIGN(bitmap_size, BITS_PER_COMPAT_LONG);
nr_compat_longs = BITS_TO_COMPAT_LONGS(bitmap_size);
if (!access_ok(umask, bitmap_size / 8))
if (!user_access_begin(umask, bitmap_size / 8))
return -EFAULT;
user_access_begin();
while (nr_compat_longs > 1) {
compat_ulong_t l1, l2;
unsafe_get_user(l1, umask++, Efault);
@@ -384,10 +383,9 @@ long compat_put_bitmap(compat_ulong_t __user *umask, unsigned long *mask,
bitmap_size = ALIGN(bitmap_size, BITS_PER_COMPAT_LONG);
nr_compat_longs = BITS_TO_COMPAT_LONGS(bitmap_size);
if (!access_ok(umask, bitmap_size / 8))
if (!user_access_begin(umask, bitmap_size / 8))
return -EFAULT;
user_access_begin();
while (nr_compat_longs > 1) {
unsigned long m = *mask++;
unsafe_put_user((compat_ulong_t)m, umask++, Efault);