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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2018-01-29 17:02:49 -0800 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-01-30 21:54:31 +0100 |
| commit | 304ec1b050310548db33063e567123fae8fd0301 (patch) | |
| tree | 453a5094b3bdcf3a9cb331850d93d112a04f7d5f /arch/x86/lib | |
| parent | b5c4ae4f35325d520b230bab6eb3310613b72ac1 (diff) | |
x86/uaccess: Use __uaccess_begin_nospec() and uaccess_try_nospec
Quoting Linus:
I do think that it would be a good idea to very expressly document
the fact that it's not that the user access itself is unsafe. I do
agree that things like "get_user()" want to be protected, but not
because of any direct bugs or problems with get_user() and friends,
but simply because get_user() is an excellent source of a pointer
that is obviously controlled from a potentially attacking user
space. So it's a prime candidate for then finding _subsequent_
accesses that can then be used to perturb the cache.
__uaccess_begin_nospec() covers __get_user() and copy_from_iter() where the
limit check is far away from the user pointer de-reference. In those cases
a barrier_nospec() prevents speculation with a potential pointer to
privileged memory. uaccess_try_nospec covers get_user_try.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727416953.33451.10508284228526170604.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c index de3436719e26..7add8ba06887 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ do { \ unsigned long __copy_user_ll(void *to, const void *from, unsigned long n) { - __uaccess_begin(); + __uaccess_begin_nospec(); if (movsl_is_ok(to, from, n)) __copy_user(to, from, n); else @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_user_ll); unsigned long __copy_from_user_ll_nocache_nozero(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) { - __uaccess_begin(); + __uaccess_begin_nospec(); #ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY if (n > 64 && static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XMM2)) n = __copy_user_intel_nocache(to, from, n); |