RE: [PATCH v4 0/7] kernel: introduce uaccess logging

From: Peter Collingbourne

Sent: 09 December 2021 22:16

This patch series introduces a kernel feature known as uaccess
logging, which allows userspace programs to be made aware of the
address and size of uaccesses performed by the kernel during
the servicing of a syscall. More details on the motivation
for and interface to this feature are available in the file
Documentation/admin-guide/uaccess-logging.rst added by the final
patch in the series.

How does this work when get_user() and put_user() are used to
do optimised copies?

While adding checks to copy_to/from_user() is going to have
a measurable performance impact - even if nothing is done,
adding them to get/put_user() (and friends) is going to
make some hot paths really slow.

So maybe you could add it so KASAN test kernels, but you can't
sensibly enable it on a production kernel.

Now, it might be that you could semi-sensibly log 'data' transfers.
But have you actually looked at all the transfers that happen
for something like sendmsg().
The 'user copy hardening' code already has a significant impact
on that code (in many places).


	David

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