From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 03/15] arm64: Introduce prctl() options to control the tagged user addresses ABI
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:18:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190618091811.GC2790@e103592.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201906132209.FC65A3C771@keescook>
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:13:54PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 04:26:32PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:02:35PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 01:43:20PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > > > +static int zero;
> > > > +static int one = 1;
> > >
> > > !!!
> > >
> > > And these can't even be const without a cast. Yuk.
> > >
> > > (Not your fault though, but it would be nice to have a proc_dobool() to
> > > avoid this.)
> >
> > I had the same reaction. Maybe for another patch sanitising this pattern
> > across the kernel.
>
> That's actually already happening (via -mm tree last I looked). tl;dr:
> it ends up using a cast hidden in a macro. It's in linux-next already
> along with a checkpatch.pl addition to yell about doing what's being
> done here. ;)
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190430180111.10688-1-mcroce@redhat.com/#r
Hmmm, that is marginally less bad.
Ideally we'd have a union in there, not just a bunch of void *. I may
look at that someday...
Cheers
---Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-18 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-12 11:43 [PATCH v17 00/15] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 01/15] arm64: untag user pointers in access_ok and __uaccess_mask_ptr Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 14:26 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 02/15] lib, arm64: untag user pointers in strn*_user Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 14:28 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 03/15] arm64: Introduce prctl() options to control the tagged user addresses ABI Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 14:30 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-12 14:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-13 11:02 ` Dave Martin
2019-06-13 15:26 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-14 5:13 ` Kees Cook
2019-06-18 9:18 ` Dave Martin [this message]
2019-06-13 11:16 ` Dave Martin
2019-06-13 15:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-13 15:45 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-13 15:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-13 16:15 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-17 13:56 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-17 16:56 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-06-17 16:57 ` Evgenii Stepanov
2019-06-17 17:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-17 21:59 ` Evgenii Stepanov
2019-06-19 14:45 ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-19 15:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 04/15] mm, arm64: untag user pointers passed to memory syscalls Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 14:31 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-19 15:55 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-06-19 16:46 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-06-24 14:22 ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 05/15] mm, arm64: untag user pointers in mm/gup.c Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 14:33 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-19 16:41 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 06/15] mm, arm64: untag user pointers in get_vaddr_frames Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 14:34 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-19 16:48 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 07/15] fs, arm64: untag user pointers in copy_mount_options Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 14:35 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-19 20:01 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 08/15] userfaultfd, arm64: untag user pointers Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 14:40 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 09/15] drm/amdgpu, " Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 10/15] drm/radeon, arm64: untag user pointers in radeon_gem_userptr_ioctl Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 11/15] IB/mlx4, arm64: untag user pointers in mlx4_get_umem_mr Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 12/15] media/v4l2-core, arm64: untag user pointers in videobuf_dma_contig_user_get Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-19 20:05 ` Khalid Aziz
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 13/15] tee/shm, arm64: untag user pointers in tee_shm_register Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 14/15] vfio/type1, arm64: untag user pointers in vaddr_get_pfn Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 14:41 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-12 15:58 ` Auger Eric
2019-06-12 11:43 ` [PATCH v17 15/15] selftests, arm64: add a selftest for passing tagged pointers to kernel Andrey Konovalov
2019-06-12 12:30 ` Szabolcs Nagy
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