From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964769AbcE2Qws (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2016 12:52:48 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f42.google.com ([209.85.218.42]:33674 "EHLO mail-oi0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752856AbcE2Qwq (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2016 12:52:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160525153301.GE4420@pd.tnic> References: <20160525153301.GE4420@pd.tnic> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 09:52:26 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86/uaccess: OOPS or warn on a fault with KERNEL_DS and !pagefault_disabled() To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski , X86 ML , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Kees Cook , Brian Gerst Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 03:48:44PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> + if (unlikely(!is_user_ds && !pagefault_disabled())) { >> + if (extra < TASK_SIZE_MAX) { >> + /* >> + * Accessing user address under KERNEL_DS. This is a >> + * bug and should be fixed, but OOPSing is not helpful >> + * for exploit mitigation. >> + */ >> + WARN_ONCE(1, "BUG: uaccess fault at 0x%lx with KERNEL_DS\n", > > WARN and BUG? > > Also, let's have this string and the one below differ for finding out > where we are during debugging. Done.