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* [PATCH 0/3] Fix uaccess kernel protection on ARMv5 and earlier
@ 2020-05-04 13:34 Russell King - ARM Linux admin
  2020-05-04 13:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: uaccess: consolidate uaccess asm to asm/uaccess-asm.h Russell King
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From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin @ 2020-05-04 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel, Tomas Paukrt; +Cc: Will Deacon, Alexander Viro

Hi,

This series fixes a problem with the ability for the user accessors to
access kernel space in a very specific circumstance.  I'm greatful to
Tomas Paukrt for having the patience to track down the problem.

This only happens when the following conditions are met:

- ARMv5 or earlier CPU
- Software PAN is disabled
- Nested exceptions that want to use user accessors to touch kernel
  space (implying use of the set_fs() function.)

The result is that the domain register is not preserved across the
nested exception, but instead is reset to prevent kernel accesses
while we are inside a region that should be permitting them.

Further technical details can be found in patch 3.

Patch 1 consolidates the uaccess macros into a new include file.
Patch 2 integrates the address limit save/reset/restore into this
 file, moving it from entry-armv.S, since we need to integrate this
 with the domain register manipulations.
Patch 3 ensures that the domain register is always saved and restored
 not only if we are using software PAN, but if we're using CPU domains
 for kernel memory protection.

 arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h   |  75 +-----------------------
 arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess-asm.h | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S       |  11 +---
 arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S     |   9 +--
 4 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess-asm.h

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2020-05-04 13:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: uaccess: integrate uaccess_save and uaccess_restore Russell King
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