Hi,
This is a small update to the series, for more info see the original cover letter [1].
Following various discussions, the interface remains broadly unchanged, with a separate function for each permission set (read/write/RW). Luca's work on explicit checking however exposed that check_user_ptr_read() should clearly take a pointer to const. The write/RW variants still take a non-const pointer; accordingly fault_in_safe_writeable() will be changed to take a non-const pointer too [2], which feels more logical.
For symmetry, make_user_ptr_for_read_uaccess() now returns a pointer to const. A few patches are modified accordingly; the additional changes are minimal. A nice side-effect is that this reduces the risks of misuse at compile time, since copy_to_user(uptr, ...) will trigger a warning if uptr is a pointer to const.
v1..v2: - Patch 1: made check_user_ptr_read() and make_user_ptr_for_read_uaccess() take/return a pointer to const. - Patch 3, 4, 9: made variables pointers to const when using make_user_ptr_for_read_uaccess().
Review branch:
https://git.morello-project.org/kbrodsky-arm/linux/-/commits/morello/user_pt...
Thanks, Kevin
[1] https://op-lists.linaro.org/archives/list/linux-morello@op-lists.linaro.org/... [2] https://op-lists.linaro.org/archives/list/linux-morello@op-lists.linaro.org/...
Kevin Brodsky (9): linux/user_ptr.h: Introduce uaccess-related helpers fs/binfmt_elf: Create appropriate user pointer for uaccess coredump: Create appropriate user pointer for uaccess mm/memory: Create appropriate user pointer for uaccess Revert "mm/hugetlb: Use appropriate user pointer conversions" Revert "mm/shmem: Use appropriate user pointer conversions" audit: Create appropriate user pointer for uaccess perf: Avoid uaddr_to_user_ptr_safe() for arbitrary user address arm64: Create appropriate user pointer for uaccess
Documentation/core-api/user_ptr.rst | 100 ++++++++++++++++++---------- arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 3 +- arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 3 +- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 14 ++-- fs/coredump.c | 4 +- include/linux/user_ptr.h | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- kernel/auditsc.c | 3 +- kernel/events/internal.h | 2 +- lib/user_ptr.c | 46 +++++++++++++ mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- mm/memory.c | 4 +- mm/shmem.c | 2 +- 12 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)