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Revision 285a76bb2cf51b0c74c634f2aaccdb93e1f2a359 authored by Ben Dooks on 29 March 2021, 09:57:49 UTC, committed by Palmer Dabbelt on 02 April 2021, 04:37:04 UTC
The <asm/uaccess.h> header has a problem with put_user(a, ptr) if
the 'a' is not a simple variable, such as a function. This can lead
to the compiler producing code as so:

1:	enable_user_access()
2:	evaluate 'a' into register 'r'
3:	put 'r' to 'ptr'
4:	disable_user_acess()

The issue is that 'a' is now being evaluated with the user memory
protections disabled. So we try and force the evaulation by assigning
'x' to __val at the start, and hoping the compiler barriers in
 enable_user_access() do the job of ordering step 2 before step 1.

This has shown up in a bug where 'a' sleeps and thus schedules out
and loses the SR_SUM flag. This isn't sufficient to fully fix, but
should reduce the window of opportunity. The first instance of this
we found is in scheudle_tail() where the code does:

$ less -N kernel/sched/core.c

4263  if (current->set_child_tid)
4264         put_user(task_pid_vnr(current), current->set_child_tid);

Here, the task_pid_vnr(current) is called within the block that has
enabled the user memory access. This can be made worse with KASAN
which makes task_pid_vnr() a rather large call with plenty of
opportunity to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Reported-by: syzbot+e74b94fe601ab9552d69@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergman <arnd@arndb.de>

--
Changes since v1:
- fixed formatting and updated the patch description with more info

Changes since v2:
- fixed commenting on __put_user() (schwab@linux-m68k.org)

Change since v3:
- fixed RFC in patch title. Should be ready to merge.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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Tip revision: 285a76bb2cf51b0c74c634f2aaccdb93e1f2a359 authored by Ben Dooks on 29 March 2021, 09:57:49 UTC
riscv: evaluate put_user() arg before enabling user access
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