Patch changelog: v4: * __always_inline copy_struct_from_user(). [Kees Cook] * Rework test_user_copy.ko changes. [Kees Cook] v3: <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190930182810.6090-1-cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx/> <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190930191526.19544-1-asarai@xxxxxxx/> v2: <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925230332.18690-1-cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx/> v1: <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925165915.8135-1-cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx/> This series was split off from the openat2(2) syscall discussion[1]. However, the copy_struct_to_user() helper has been dropped, because after some discussion it appears that there is no really obvious semantics for how copy_struct_to_user() should work on mixed-vintages (for instance, whether [2] is the correct semantics for all syscalls). A common pattern for syscall extensions is increasing the size of a struct passed from userspace, such that the zero-value of the new fields result in the old kernel behaviour (allowing for a mix of userspace and kernel vintages to operate on one another in most cases). Previously there was no common lib/ function that implemented the necessary extension-checking semantics (and different syscalls implemented them slightly differently or incompletely[3]). This series implements the helper and ports several syscalls to use it. Some in-kernel selftests are included in this patch. More complete self-tests for copy_struct_from_user() are included in the openat2() patchset. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904201933.10736-1-cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2]: commit 1251201c0d34 ("sched/core: Fix uclamp ABI bug, clean up and robustify sched_read_attr() ABI logic and code") [3]: For instance {sched_setattr,perf_event_open,clone3}(2) all do do similar checks to copy_struct_from_user() while rt_sigprocmask(2) always rejects differently-sized struct arguments. Aleksa Sarai (4): lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user() sched_setattr: switch to copy_struct_from_user() perf_event_open: switch to copy_struct_from_user() include/linux/bitops.h | 7 ++ include/linux/uaccess.h | 70 +++++++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/sched.h | 2 + kernel/events/core.c | 47 +++---------- kernel/fork.c | 34 ++-------- kernel/sched/core.c | 43 ++---------- lib/strnlen_user.c | 8 +-- lib/test_user_copy.c | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- lib/usercopy.c | 55 +++++++++++++++ 9 files changed, 288 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-) -- 2.23.0