From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: "Thomas Garnier" <thgarnie@google.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
"Al Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
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"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
"John Stultz" <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
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"Stanislav Kinsburskiy" <skinsbursky@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] syscalls: Restore address limit after a syscall
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 14:20:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrX1RpjZxdo1aauQa8hGQPO1Dzn5gU6NoT1CvSKo8ea1uQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170308215814.GG21222@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:38:41PM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
>> This patch prevents a syscall to modify the address limit of the
>> caller. The address limit is kept by the syscall wrapper and restored
>> just after the syscall ends.
>
> I would much rather architectures were given the opportunity to code up
> checks like this efficiently (iow, inline in the exit path assembly),
> rather than having to unconditionally call an additional function on
> every syscall, with its register saving overheads.
>
Me too. I think the two config choices should be:
(a) BUG_ON(!segment_eq(...));
(b) No generic check at all -- arch code will handle it
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-08 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-08 21:38 [PATCH v1 1/4] syscalls: Restore address limit after a syscall Thomas Garnier
2017-03-08 21:38 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] x86/syscalls: Specific usage of verify_pre_usermode_state Thomas Garnier
2017-03-08 21:38 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] arm/syscalls: " Thomas Garnier
2017-03-08 21:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-03-08 22:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2017-03-08 22:33 ` Thomas Garnier
2017-03-08 21:38 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] arm64/syscalls: " Thomas Garnier
2017-03-08 21:57 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] syscalls: Restore address limit after a syscall Kees Cook
2017-03-09 1:13 ` Thomas Garnier
2017-03-08 21:58 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-03-08 22:20 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2017-03-08 22:27 ` Thomas Garnier
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