iov_iter/uaccess/hardening pile. For one thing, it trims the inline part of copy_to_user/copy_from_user to the minimum that *does* need to be inlined - object size checks, basically. For another, it sanitizes the checks for iov_iter primitives. There are 4 groups of checks: access_ok(), might_fault(), object size and KASAN. * access_ok() had been verified by whoever had set the iov_iter up. However, that has happened in a function far away, so proving that there's no path to actual copying bypassing those checks is hard and proving that iov_iter has not been buggered in the meanwhile is also not pleasant. So we want those redone in actual copyin/copyout. * might_fault() is better off consolidated - we know whether it needs to be checked as soon as we enter iov_iter primitive and observe the iov_iter flavour. No need to wait until the copyin/copyout. The call chains are short enough to make sure we won't miss anything - in fact, it's more robust that way, since there are cases where we do e.g. forced fault-in before getting to copyin/copyout. It's not quite what we need to check (in particular, combination of iovec-backed and set_fs(KERNEL_DS) is almost certainly a bug, not a cause to skip checks), but that's for later series. For now let's keep might_fault(). * KASAN checks belong in copyin/copyout - at the same level where other iov_iter flavours would've hit them in memcpy(). * object size checks should apply to *all* iov_iter flavours, not just iovec-backed ones. There are two groups of primitives - one gets the kernel object described as pointer + size (copy_to_iter(), etc.) while another gets it as page + offset + size (copy_page_to_iter(), etc.) For the first group the checks are best done where we actually have a chance to find the object size. In other words, those belong in inline wrappers in uio.h, before calling into iov_iter.c. Same kind as we have for inlined part of copy_to_user(). For the second group there is no object to look at - offset in page is just a number, it bears no type information. So we do them in the common helper called by iov_iter.c primitives of that kind. All it currently does is checking that we are not trying to access outside of the compound page; eventually we might want to add some sanity checks on the page involved. So the things we need in copyin/copyout part of iov_iter.c do not quite match anything in uaccess.h (we want no zeroing, we *do* want access_ok() and KASAN and we want no might_fault() or object size checks done on that level). OTOH, these needs are simple enough to provide a couple of helpers (static in iov_iter.c) doing just what we need... Trivial conflicts with libnvdimm; this stuff will get some followups, but again, that's for another series. The following changes since commit 2ea659a9ef488125eb46da6eb571de5eae5c43f6: Linux 4.12-rc1 (2017-05-13 13:19:49 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git uaccess-work.iov_iter for you to fetch changes up to 09fc68dc66f7597bdc8898c991609a48f061bed5: iov_iter: saner checks on copyin/copyout (2017-07-07 05:18:09 -0400) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Al Viro (5): copy_{from,to}_user(): move kasan checks and might_fault() out-of-line copy_{to,from}_user(): consolidate object size checks iov_iter/hardening: move object size checks to inlined part iov_iter: sanity checks for copy to/from page primitives iov_iter: saner checks on copyin/copyout include/linux/thread_info.h | 27 +++++++++++++ include/linux/uaccess.h | 44 +++++---------------- include/linux/uio.h | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--- lib/iov_iter.c | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- lib/usercopy.c | 10 ++++- 5 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)