Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 09/38] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches

Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-03T17:37:26Z

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> There is not necessarily a device for that. It is a hypervisor interface (an
> instruction that is interpreted by z/VM). We do have the netiucv driver that
> creates a virtual nic, but there is also AF_IUCV which works without a device.
>
> But back to the original question: If we mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches,
> we should do the same for DMA kmalloc caches. As outlined by Christoph, this has
> nothing to do with device DMA.

Oh well, s/390 with its weird mix of cpu and I/O again. Everywhere else
where we have addressing limits we do treat that as a DMA address.

We've also had a bit of a lose plan to force ZONE_DMA as a public
interface out, as it is generally the wrong thing to do for drivers.
A ZONE_32 and/or ZONE_31 makes some sense as the backing for the
dma allocator, but it mostly shouldn't be exposed, especially not to
the slab allocator.