v14: implement task_access_ok variant for cross-task pointer checks patch 2/4 changed from access_ok to task_access_ok v13: sizeof consistency and cosmetic changes in patch 2 v12: split test into its own patch change from padding a u8 to using a u64 casting issues checkpatch.pl [truncating version history] Syscall user dispatch makes it possible to cleanly intercept system calls from user-land. However, most transparent checkpoint software presently leverages some combination of ptrace and system call injection to place software in a ready-to-checkpoint state. If Syscall User Dispatch is enabled at the time of being quiesced, injected system calls will subsequently be interposed upon and dispatched to the task's signal handler. Patch summary: - Create new task_access_ok which leverages the provided task's information when validating userland pointers. For ARM64 this means MTE tags are accounted for. For all other architectures, this simply reduces to access_ok (presently). - Refactor configuration setting interface to operate on a task rather than current, so the set and error paths can be consolidated - Implement a getter interface for Syscall User Dispatch config info. To resume successfully, the checkpoint/resume software has to save and restore this information. Presently this configuration is write-only, with no way for C/R software to save it. This was done in ptrace because syscall user dispatch is not part of uapi. The syscall_user_dispatch_config structure was added to the ptrace exports. - Selftest for the new feature Gregory Price (4): asm-generic,arm64: create task variant of access_ok syscall_user_dispatch: helper function to operate on given task ptrace,syscall_user_dispatch: checkpoint/restore support for SUD selftest,ptrace: Add selftest for syscall user dispatch config api .../admin-guide/syscall-user-dispatch.rst | 4 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 13 +++- include/asm-generic/access_ok.h | 10 +++ include/linux/syscall_user_dispatch.h | 18 +++++ include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h | 29 ++++++++ kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c | 67 ++++++++++++++--- kernel/ptrace.c | 9 +++ tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/.gitignore | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/Makefile | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/get_set_sud.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++ 10 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ptrace/get_set_sud.c -- 2.39.1