# \[PATCH 31/36\] arm: Implement thread\_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy

- From: Kees Cook \<hidden\>
- Date: 2018-01-09 20:56:00 
- List: linux-arm-kernel
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arm-kernel/2018/01/131508
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arm-kernel/2018/01/131508/t.md

```text
ARM does not carry FPU state in the thread structure, so it can declare
no usercopy whitelist at all.

Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <redacted>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig                 | 1 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 51c8df561077..3ea00d65f35d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ config ARM
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU
 	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU
 	select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER if (AEABI && !OABI_COMPAT)
+	select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
 	select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
 	select HAVE_ARM_SMCCC if CPU_V7
 	select HAVE_EBPF_JIT if !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
index 338cbe0a18ef..01a41be58d43 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ struct thread_struct {
 	struct debug_info	debug;
 };
 
+/* Nothing needs to be usercopy-whitelisted from thread_struct. */
+static inline void arch_thread_struct_whitelist(unsigned long *offset,
+						unsigned long *size)
+{
+	*offset = *size = 0;
+}
+
 #define INIT_THREAD  {	}
 
 #define start_thread(regs,pc,sp)					\
-- 
2.7.4
```
