Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] arm64/syscalls: Specific usage of verify_pre_usermode_state

From: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] arm64/syscalls: Specific usage of verify_pre_usermode_state
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:35:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcbSZEBu1KnXc-aROvp+EbLpDSAcJV8PUCmNj05OCOtCfSqfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170309162613.GN21222@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 07:56:49AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 4:23 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
>> > We generally stick to lower case for the arm64 assembly macros. If we
>> > need this, we should stick to the existing convention.
>> >
>> >> +/* Similar to set_fs(USER_DS) in verify_pre_usermode_state without a warning. */
>> >> +.macro VERIFY_PRE_USERMODE_STATE
>> >> +     mov     x1, #TASK_SIZE_64
>> >> +     str     x1, [tsk, #TSK_TI_ADDR_LIMIT]
>> >> +.endm
>> >
>> > We need arm64's set_fs() to configure UAO, too, so this is much weaker
>> > than set_fs(), and will leave __{get,put}_user and
>> > __copy_{to,from}_user() able to access kernel memory.
>> >
>> > We don't currently have an asm helper to clear UAO, and unconditionally
>> > poking that on exception return is liable to be somewhat expensive.
>> >
>> > Also, given we're only trying to catch this in syscalls, I'm afraid I
>> > don't see what we gain by doing this in the entry assembly.
>> >
>>
>> I optimized all architectures from the arm (32-bit) discussion. I will
>> come back to a simple bl to the verify function. Thanks!
>
> I wouldn't call what you've done on ARM an "optimisation", because my
> comment about making the fast path worthless still stands.

Why does it still stands on the latest proposal?

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