Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 14:17:54 +0100
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module check
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 02:09:00PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> virt_addr_valid was previously insufficient to validate if virt_to_page
> could be called on an address on arm64. This has since been fixed up
> so there is no need for the extra check. Drop it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
> ---
> I've given this some testing on my machine and haven't seen any problems
> (e.g. random crashes without the check) and the fix has been in for long
> enough now. I'm in no rush to have this merged so I'm okay if this sits in
> a tree somewhere to get more testing.

This looks good to me, given your fix for virt_add_valid() in mainline.
FWIW:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Mark.

> ---
>  mm/usercopy.c | 11 -----------
>  1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
> index d155e12563b1..4d23a0e0e232 100644
> --- a/mm/usercopy.c
> +++ b/mm/usercopy.c
> @@ -206,17 +206,6 @@ static inline const char *check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
>  {
>  	struct page *page;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Some architectures (arm64) return true for virt_addr_valid() on
> -	 * vmalloced addresses. Work around this by checking for vmalloc
> -	 * first.
> -	 *
> -	 * We also need to check for module addresses explicitly since we
> -	 * may copy static data from modules to userspace
> -	 */
> -	if (is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(ptr))
> -		return NULL;
> -
>  	if (!virt_addr_valid(ptr))
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -- 
> 2.12.1
>