RE: Re: [PATCH] RDMA/siw: Fix missing permission check in user buffer registration

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, 16 December 2022 21:13
> To: Bernard Metzler <BMT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; leonro@xxxxxxxxxx;
> David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] RDMA/siw: Fix missing permission check
> in user buffer registration
> 
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 08:11:32PM +0000, Bernard Metzler wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Friday, 16 December 2022 19:35
> > > To: Bernard Metzler <BMT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; leonro@xxxxxxxxxx;
> David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] RDMA/siw: Fix missing permission
> check in
> > > user buffer registration
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 07:32:09PM +0100, Bernard Metzler wrote:
> > > > User communication buffer registration lacks check of access
> > > > rights for provided address range. Using pin_user_pages_fast()
> > > > instead of pin_user_pages() during user page pinning implicitely
> > > > introduces the necessary check. It furthermore tries to avoid
> > > > grabbing the mmap_read_lock.
> > >
> > > Huh? What access check?
> > >
> >
> >         if (unlikely(!access_ok((void __user *)start, len)))
> >                 return -EFAULT;
> >
> > siw needs to call access_ok() during user buffer registration.
> 
> No, it doesn't
> 
> Either pin_user_pages or pin_user_pages_fast() are equivalent.
> 
> You do have a bad bug here if this isn't holding the mmap lock though
> 

No, that lock is held. I was triggered by David's arguing about
protection. I went down the path of pin_user_pages() and did
not find a singe point where access rights to the buffer being
registered are enforced. pin_user_pages_fast() do have it though.
So I proposed a change in siw to use that function.

Best,
Bernard.





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