This is a preparatory patch for enabling checkpoint/restart of tasks
utilizing syscall user dispatch via ptrace.
To support checkpoint/restart, ptrace must be able to set the selector
of the tracee. The selector is a user pointer that may be subject to
memory tagging extensions on some architectures (namely ARM MTE).
access_ok will clear memory tags for tagged addresses on tasks where
memory tagging is enabled. However, to allow ptrace to set a task's
selector when tracer and tracee are not both tagged or untagged,
the selector address must be untagged when calling access_ok.
Since access_ok utilizes current to determine whether or not to untag
an address, an untagged tracer will always fail to restore a tagged
address in a tagged tracee. This patch will resolve this issue.
The result of this is that a tagged tracer may be capable of setting
an invalid address, which will cause the tracee to SIGSEGV on next
syscall. This is equivalent to the tracee setting a bad selector
address (such as selector=0x1). This is preferable to the alternative
of creating a task_access_ok variant, and is consistent with other
operations which change tracee pointers via ptrace.
For more information, see:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZCWXE04nLZ4pXEtM@arm.com/
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
index 22396b234854..424f24350f8b 100644
--- a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
+++ b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
@@ -87,7 +87,14 @@ static int task_set_syscall_user_dispatch(struct task_struct *task, unsigned lon
if (offset && offset + len <= offset)
return -EINVAL;
- if (selector && !access_ok(selector, sizeof(*selector)))
+ /*
+ * access_ok will clear memory tags for tagged addresses on tasks where
+ * memory tagging is enabled. To enable a tracer to set a tracee's
+ * selector not in the same tagging state, the selector address must be
+ * untagged for access_ok, otherwise an untagged tracer will always fail
+ * to set a tagged tracee's selector.
+ */
+ if (selector && !access_ok(untagged_addr(selector), sizeof(*selector)))
return -EFAULT;
break;
--
2.39.1
The following commit has been merged into the core/entry branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 463b7715e7ce367fce89769c5d85e31595715ee1
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/463b7715e7ce367fce89769c5d85e31595715ee1
Author: Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 13:18:32 -04:00
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitterDate: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:23:07 +02:00
syscall_user_dispatch: Untag selector address before access_ok()
To support checkpoint/restart, ptrace must be able to set the selector
of the tracee. The selector is a user pointer that may be subject to
memory tagging extensions on some architectures (namely ARM MTE).
access_ok() clears memory tags for tagged addresses if the current task has
memory tagging enabled.
This obviously fails when ptrace modifies the selector of a tracee when
tracer and tracee do not have the same memory tagging enabled state.
Solve this by untagging the selector address before handing it to
access_ok(), like other ptrace functions which modify tracee pointers do.
Obviously a tracer can set an invalid selector address for the tracee, but
that's independent of tagging and a general capability of the tracer.
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZCWXE04nLZ4pXEtM@arm.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230407171834.3558-3-gregory.price@memverge.com
---
kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
index 22396b2..7f2add4 100644
--- a/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
+++ b/kernel/entry/syscall_user_dispatch.c
@@ -87,7 +87,16 @@ static int task_set_syscall_user_dispatch(struct task_struct *task, unsigned lon
if (offset && offset + len <= offset)
return -EINVAL;
- if (selector && !access_ok(selector, sizeof(*selector)))
+ /*
+ * access_ok() will clear memory tags for tagged addresses
+ * if current has memory tagging enabled.
+
+ * To enable a tracer to set a tracees selector the
+ * selector address must be untagged for access_ok(),
+ * otherwise an untagged tracer will always fail to set a
+ * tagged tracees selector.
+ */
+ if (selector && !access_ok(untagged_addr(selector), sizeof(*selector)))
return -EFAULT;
break;
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