This whitelists the FPU register state portion of the thread_struct for
copying to userspace, instead of the default entire struct.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 971feac13506..6642e8eaff45 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if MMU && COMPAT
select HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES if MMU && COMPAT
select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
+ select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD if X86_64
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 3fa26a61eabc..868235b967ed 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -488,6 +488,14 @@ struct thread_struct {
*/
};
+/* Whitelist the FPU state from the task_struct for hardened usercopy. */
+static inline void arch_thread_struct_whitelist(unsigned long *offset,
+ unsigned long *size)
+{
+ *offset = offsetof(struct thread_struct, fpu.state);
+ *size = fpu_kernel_xstate_size;
+}
+
/*
* Thread-synchronous status.
*
--
2.7.4
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