The quilt patch titled Subject: x86/uaccess: avoid check_object_size() in copy_from_user_nmi() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was x86-uaccess-avoid-check_object_size-in-copy_from_user_nmi.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: x86/uaccess: avoid check_object_size() in copy_from_user_nmi() Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:16:48 -0700 The check_object_size() helper under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is designed to skip any checks where the length is known at compile time as a reasonable heuristic to avoid "likely known-good" cases. However, it can only do this when the copy_*_user() helpers are, themselves, inline too. Using find_vmap_area() requires taking a spinlock. The check_object_size() helper can call find_vmap_area() when the destination is in vmap memory. If show_regs() is called in interrupt context, it will attempt a call to copy_from_user_nmi(), which may call check_object_size() and then find_vmap_area(). If something in normal context happens to be in the middle of calling find_vmap_area() (with the spinlock held), the interrupt handler will hang forever. The copy_from_user_nmi() call is actually being called with a fixed-size length, so check_object_size() should never have been called in the first place. Given the narrow constraints, just replace the __copy_from_user_inatomic() call with an open-coded version that calls only into the sanitizers and not check_object_size(), followed by a call to raw_copy_from_user(). [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: no instrument_copy_from_user() in my tree...] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220919201648.2250764-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOUHufaPshtKrTWOz7T7QFYUNVGFm0JBjvM700Nhf9qEL9b3EQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 0aef499f3172 ("mm/usercopy: Detect vmalloc overruns") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Florian Lehner <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Florian Lehner <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c~x86-uaccess-avoid-check_object_size-in-copy_from_user_nmi +++ a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void * called from other contexts. */ pagefault_disable(); - ret = __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, from, n); + ret = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n); pagefault_enable(); return ret; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are