On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Andrey Konovalov [off-list ref] wrote:

So the checker reports ~100 different places where a __user pointer
being casted. I've looked through them and found 3 places where we
need to add untagging. Source code lines below come from 4.18-rc2+
(6f0d349d).

Place 1:

arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:302:34: warning: user pointer cast
current->thread.fault_address = (unsigned long)info->si_addr;

Compare a pointer with TASK_SIZE (1 << 48) to check whether it lies in
the kernel or in user space. Need to untag the address before
performing a comparison.

Place 2:

fs/namespace.c:2736:21: warning: user pointer cast
size = TASK_SIZE - (unsigned long)data;

A similar check performed by subtracting a pointer from TASK_SIZE.
Need to untag before subtracting.

Place 3:

drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1407:29: warning: user pointer cast
unsigned long uurb_start = (unsigned long)uurb->buffer;
drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1636:31: warning: user pointer cast
unsigned long uurb_start = (unsigned long)uurb->buffer;
drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1715:30: warning: user pointer cast
unsigned long uurb_start = (unsigned long)uurb->buffer;

The device keeps list of mmapped areas and searches them for provided
__user pointer. Need to untag before searching.

There are also a few cases of memory syscalls operating on __user
pointers instead of unsigned longs like mmap:

ipc/shm.c:1355:23: warning: user pointer cast
unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)shmaddr;
ipc/shm.c:1566:23: warning: user pointer cast
unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)shmaddr;
mm/migrate.c:1586:10: warning: user pointer cast
addr = (unsigned long)p;
mm/migrate.c:1660:24: warning: user pointer cast
unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)(*pages);

If we don't add untagging to mmap, we probably don't need it here.

The rest of reported places look fine as is. Full annotated results of
running the checker are here [2].

I'll add the 3 patches with fixes to v5 of this patchset.

Catalin, WDYT?

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