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* [PATCH v4 0/4] lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper
@ 2019-10-01  1:11 Aleksa Sarai
  2019-10-01  1:12 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] " Aleksa Sarai
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From: Aleksa Sarai @ 2019-10-01  1:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa,
	Namhyung Kim, Christian Brauner, Kees Cook
  Cc: Aleksa Sarai, Rasmus Villemoes, Al Viro, Linus Torvalds,
	libc-alpha, linux-api, linux-kernel

Patch changelog:
 v4:
  * __always_inline copy_struct_from_user(). [Kees Cook]
  * Rework test_user_copy.ko changes. [Kees Cook]
 v3: <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190930182810.6090-1-cyphar@cyphar.com/>
     <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190930191526.19544-1-asarai@suse.de/>
 v2: <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925230332.18690-1-cyphar@cyphar.com/>
 v1: <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925165915.8135-1-cyphar@cyphar.com/>

This series was split off from the openat2(2) syscall discussion[1].
However, the copy_struct_to_user() helper has been dropped, because
after some discussion it appears that there is no really obvious
semantics for how copy_struct_to_user() should work on mixed-vintages
(for instance, whether [2] is the correct semantics for all syscalls).

A common pattern for syscall extensions is increasing the size of a
struct passed from userspace, such that the zero-value of the new fields
result in the old kernel behaviour (allowing for a mix of userspace and
kernel vintages to operate on one another in most cases).

Previously there was no common lib/ function that implemented
the necessary extension-checking semantics (and different syscalls
implemented them slightly differently or incompletely[3]). This series
implements the helper and ports several syscalls to use it.

Some in-kernel selftests are included in this patch. More complete
self-tests for copy_struct_from_user() are included in the openat2()
patchset.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904201933.10736-1-cyphar@cyphar.com/

[2]: commit 1251201c0d34 ("sched/core: Fix uclamp ABI bug, clean up and
     robustify sched_read_attr() ABI logic and code")

[3]: For instance {sched_setattr,perf_event_open,clone3}(2) all do do
     similar checks to copy_struct_from_user() while rt_sigprocmask(2)
     always rejects differently-sized struct arguments.

Aleksa Sarai (4):
  lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper
  clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user()
  sched_setattr: switch to copy_struct_from_user()
  perf_event_open: switch to copy_struct_from_user()

 include/linux/bitops.h     |   7 ++
 include/linux/uaccess.h    |  70 +++++++++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/sched.h |   2 +
 kernel/events/core.c       |  47 +++----------
 kernel/fork.c              |  34 ++--------
 kernel/sched/core.c        |  43 ++----------
 lib/strnlen_user.c         |   8 +--
 lib/test_user_copy.c       | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 lib/usercopy.c             |  55 +++++++++++++++
 9 files changed, 288 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)

-- 
2.23.0

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2019-10-01  1:11 [PATCH v4 0/4] lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-01  1:12 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] " Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-01  1:58   ` Kees Cook
2019-10-01  2:31     ` Christian Brauner
2019-10-01 16:28       ` Kees Cook
2019-10-10 11:20   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-10-10 11:40     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-10 16:43       ` Kees Cook
2019-10-11  2:24       ` [PATCH] usercopy: Avoid soft lockups in test_check_nonzero_user() Michael Ellerman
2019-10-11  3:48         ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-11  9:43           ` Christian Brauner
2019-10-16 12:28             ` Michael Ellerman
2019-10-16 12:45               ` Christian Brauner
2019-10-01  1:12 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user() Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-01  2:32   ` Christian Brauner
2019-10-01  1:12 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] sched_setattr: " Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-01  2:33   ` Christian Brauner
2019-10-01  1:12 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] perf_event_open: " Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-01  2:36   ` Christian Brauner
2019-10-01 16:02 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper Christian Brauner

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