On Tue, Mar 21 2023 at 12:55, Gregory Price wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 04:41:37PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 01 2023 at 15:58, Gregory Price wrote: >> > +static int task_set_syscall_user_dispatch(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long mode, >> > + unsigned long offset, unsigned long len, >> > + char __user *selector) >> > { >> > switch (mode) { >> > case PR_SYS_DISPATCH_OFF: >> ... >> >> case PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ON: >> if (selector && !access_ok(selector, sizeof(*selector))) >> return -EFAULT; >> >> I'm not seing how this can work on ARM64 when user pointer tagging is >> enabled in the tracee, but not in the tracer. In such a case, if the >> pointer is tagged, access_ok() will fail because access_ok() wont untag >> it. > > I see that untagged_addr(x) is available to clear tags, I don't see an > immediate issues with converting to: > > !access_ok(untagged_addr(selector), sizeof(*selector)) If this would be correct, then access_ok() on arm64 would unconditionally untag the checked address, but it does not. Simply because untagging is only valid if the task enabled pointer tagging. If it didn't a tagged pointer is obviously invalid. Why would ptrace make this suddenly valid? Just because it's in the way of what you want to achieve is not a really sufficient justification. Thanks, tglx