Thread (89 messages) 89 messages, 18 authors, 2017-05-13

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

From: linux@armlinux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
Date: 2017-05-12 19:10:27
Also in: linux-api, linux-s390, lkml

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:01:59PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
Yeah, the risk for "corrupted addr_limit" is mainly a concern for
archs with addr_limit on the kernel stack. If I'm reading things
correctly, that means, from the archs I've been paying closer
attention to, it's an issue for arm, mips, and powerpc:
I'd first want to uninline everything in uaccess.h first that makes
use of access_ok() - which I think is something that needs to happen
anyway.

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