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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 08:31:37 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] mm: Hardened usercopy
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:52 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> From: Kees Cook
>> Sent: 15 July 2016 22:44
>> This is a start of the mainline port of PAX_USERCOPY[1].
> ...
>> - if address range is in the current process stack, it must be within the
>> current stack frame (if such checking is possible) or at least entirely
>> within the current process's stack.
> ...
>
> That description doesn't seem quite right to me.
> I presume the check is:
> Within the current process's stack and not crossing the ends of the
> current stack frame.
Actually, it's a bad description all around. :) The check is that the
range is within a valid stack frame (current or any prior caller's
frame). i.e. it does not cross a frame or touch the saved frame
pointer nor instruction pointer.
> The 'current' stack frame is likely to be that of copy_to/from_user().
> Even if you use the stack of the caller, any problematic buffers
> are likely to have been passed in from a calling function.
> So unless you are going to walk the stack (good luck on that)
> I'm not sure checking the stack frames is worth it.
Yup: that's exactly what it's doing: walking up the stack. :)
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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