Patch changelog:
v2:
* Switch to less buggy handling of alignment. [Linus Torvalds, Al Viro]
* Move is_zeroed_user() to lib/usercopy.c. [kbuild test robot]
* Move copy_struct_to_user() to lib/usercopy.c. [Christian Brauner]
* Add self-tests for is_zeroed_user() to lib/test_user_copy.c.
[Christian Brauner]
v1: <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/>
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.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
[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 | 4 ++
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 | 59 +++++++++++++++++--
lib/usercopy.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
9 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)
--
2.23.0
The change is very straightforward, and helps unify the syscall
interface for struct-from-userspace syscalls. Ideally we could also
unify sched_getattr(2)-style syscalls as well, but unfortunately the
correct semantics for such syscalls are much less clear (see [1] for
more detail). In future we could come up with a more sane idea for how
the syscall interface should look.
[1]: commit 1251201c0d34 ("sched/core: Fix uclamp ABI bug, clean up and
robustify sched_read_attr() ABI logic and code")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <[email protected]>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 43 +++++++------------------------------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index df9f1fe5689b..cdb2f5e29b88 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4900,9 +4900,6 @@ static int sched_copy_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr, struct sched_attr *a
u32 size;
int ret;
- if (!access_ok(uattr, SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0))
- return -EFAULT;
-
/* Zero the full structure, so that a short copy will be nice: */
memset(attr, 0, sizeof(*attr));
@@ -4910,45 +4907,19 @@ static int sched_copy_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr, struct sched_attr *a
if (ret)
return ret;
- /* Bail out on silly large: */
- if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
- goto err_size;
-
/* ABI compatibility quirk: */
if (!size)
size = SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0;
-
- if (size < SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0)
+ if (size < SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 || size > PAGE_SIZE)
goto err_size;
- /*
- * If we're handed a bigger struct than we know of,
- * ensure all the unknown bits are 0 - i.e. new
- * user-space does not rely on any kernel feature
- * extensions we dont know about yet.
- */
- if (size > sizeof(*attr)) {
- unsigned char __user *addr;
- unsigned char __user *end;
- unsigned char val;
-
- addr = (void __user *)uattr + sizeof(*attr);
- end = (void __user *)uattr + size;
-
- for (; addr < end; addr++) {
- ret = get_user(val, addr);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- if (val)
- goto err_size;
- }
- size = sizeof(*attr);
+ ret = copy_struct_from_user(attr, sizeof(*attr), uattr, size);
+ if (ret) {
+ if (ret == -E2BIG)
+ goto err_size;
+ return ret;
}
- ret = copy_from_user(attr, uattr, size);
- if (ret)
- return -EFAULT;
-
if ((attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP) &&
size < SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER1)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -5148,7 +5119,7 @@ sched_attr_copy_to_user(struct sched_attr __user *uattr,
* sys_sched_getattr - similar to sched_getparam, but with sched_attr
* @pid: the pid in question.
* @uattr: structure containing the extended parameters.
- * @usize: sizeof(attr) that user-space knows about, for forwards and backwards compatibility.
+ * @usize: sizeof(attr) for fwd/bwd comp.
* @flags: for future extension.
*/
SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
--
2.23.0