On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So the checker reports ~100 different places where a __user pointer > being casted. I've looked through them and found 3 places where we > need to add untagging. Source code lines below come from 4.18-rc2+ > (6f0d349d). > > Place 1: > > arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:302:34: warning: user pointer cast > current->thread.fault_address = (unsigned long)info->si_addr; > > Compare a pointer with TASK_SIZE (1 << 48) to check whether it lies in > the kernel or in user space. Need to untag the address before > performing a comparison. > > Place 2: > > fs/namespace.c:2736:21: warning: user pointer cast > size = TASK_SIZE - (unsigned long)data; > > A similar check performed by subtracting a pointer from TASK_SIZE. > Need to untag before subtracting. > > Place 3: > > drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1407:29: warning: user pointer cast > unsigned long uurb_start = (unsigned long)uurb->buffer; > drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1636:31: warning: user pointer cast > unsigned long uurb_start = (unsigned long)uurb->buffer; > drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1715:30: warning: user pointer cast > unsigned long uurb_start = (unsigned long)uurb->buffer; > > The device keeps list of mmapped areas and searches them for provided > __user pointer. Need to untag before searching. > > There are also a few cases of memory syscalls operating on __user > pointers instead of unsigned longs like mmap: > > ipc/shm.c:1355:23: warning: user pointer cast > unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)shmaddr; > ipc/shm.c:1566:23: warning: user pointer cast > unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)shmaddr; > mm/migrate.c:1586:10: warning: user pointer cast > addr = (unsigned long)p; > mm/migrate.c:1660:24: warning: user pointer cast > unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)(*pages); > > If we don't add untagging to mmap, we probably don't need it here. > > The rest of reported places look fine as is. Full annotated results of > running the checker are here [2]. > > I'll add the 3 patches with fixes to v5 of this patchset. > > Catalin, WDYT? ping -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
