The patch titled Subject: mm-untag-user-pointers-passed-to-memory-syscalls-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-untag-user-pointers-passed-to-memory-syscalls-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-untag-user-pointers-passed-to-memory-syscalls-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-untag-user-pointers-passed-to-memory-syscalls-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm-untag-user-pointers-passed-to-memory-syscalls-fix mmap, mremap, munmap, brk added to the list of syscalls that accept tagged pointers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190809160301.GB23083@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 5 +++++ mm/mremap.c | 6 +----- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-untag-user-pointers-passed-to-memory-syscalls-fix +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(brk, unsigned long, brk) bool downgraded = false; LIST_HEAD(uf); + brk = untagged_addr(brk); + if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem)) return -EINTR; @@ -1587,6 +1589,8 @@ unsigned long ksys_mmap_pgoff(unsigned l struct file *file = NULL; unsigned long retval; + addr = untagged_addr(addr); + if (!(flags & MAP_ANONYMOUS)) { audit_mmap_fd(fd, flags); file = fget(fd); @@ -2885,6 +2889,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_munmap); SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munmap, unsigned long, addr, size_t, len) { + addr = untagged_addr(addr); profile_munmap(addr); return __vm_munmap(addr, len, true); } --- a/mm/mremap.c~mm-untag-user-pointers-passed-to-memory-syscalls-fix +++ a/mm/mremap.c @@ -606,12 +606,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(mremap, unsigned long, a LIST_HEAD(uf_unmap_early); LIST_HEAD(uf_unmap); - /* - * Architectures may interpret the tag passed to mmap as a background - * colour for the corresponding vma. For mremap we don't allow tagged - * new_addr to preserve similar behaviour to mmap. - */ addr = untagged_addr(addr); + new_addr = untagged_addr(new_addr); if (flags & ~(MREMAP_FIXED | MREMAP_MAYMOVE)) return ret; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx are mm-untag-user-pointers-passed-to-memory-syscalls-fix.patch mm-untag-user-pointers-in-mmap-munmap-mremap-brk.patch