[kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 04:12:54AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

Broken commit: "net: don't play with address limits in kernel_recvmsg".
It would be OK if it was only about data.  Unfortunately, that's not
true in one case: svc_udp_recvfrom() wants ->msg_control.

Another delicate place: you can't assume that write() always advances
file position by its (positive) return value.  btrfs stuff is sensitive
to that.

ashmem probably _is_ OK with demanding ->read_iter(), but I'm not sure
about blind asma->file->f_pos += ret.  That's?begging for races.  Actually,
scratch that - it *is* racy.

kvec_length(): please, don't.  I would rather have the last remaining
iov_length() gone...   What do you need it for, anyway?  You have only
two users and both have the count passed to them (as *count and *cnt resp.)