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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
commit 594cc251fd
7 changed files with 36 additions and 20 deletions
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@ -1604,10 +1604,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(waitid, int, which, pid_t, upid, struct siginfo __user *,
if (!infop)
return err;
if (!access_ok(infop, sizeof(*infop)))
if (!user_access_begin(infop, sizeof(*infop)))
return -EFAULT;
user_access_begin();
unsafe_put_user(signo, &infop->si_signo, Efault);
unsafe_put_user(0, &infop->si_errno, Efault);
unsafe_put_user(info.cause, &infop->si_code, Efault);
@ -1732,10 +1731,9 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(waitid,
if (!infop)
return err;
if (!access_ok(infop, sizeof(*infop)))
if (!user_access_begin(infop, sizeof(*infop)))
return -EFAULT;
user_access_begin();
unsafe_put_user(signo, &infop->si_signo, Efault);
unsafe_put_user(0, &infop->si_errno, Efault);
unsafe_put_user(info.cause, &infop->si_code, Efault);