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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:16:01 +0100
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 3/3] arm64/syscalls: Check address limit on user-mode
return
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 06:12:03PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Ensure the address limit is a user-mode segment before returning to
> user-mode. Otherwise a process can corrupt kernel-mode memory and
> elevate privileges [1].
>
> The set_fs function sets the TIF_SETFS flag to force a slow path on
> return. In the slow path, the address limit is checked to be USER_DS if
> needed.
>
> [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=990
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
> ---
> v10 redesigns the change to use work flags on set_fs as recommended by
> Linus and agreed by others.
>
> Based on next-20170609
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 +++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 3 +++
> arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 5 +++++
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
For arm64:
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
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