[RFC6 PATCH v6 00/21] ILP32 for ARM64

Yury Norov
2016-05-12T00:20:00Z

Hi,

I debugged preadv02 and pwritev02 failures and found very weird bug.
Test passes {iovec_base = 0xffffffff, iovec_len = 64} as one element
of vector, and kernel reports successful read/write.

There are 2 problems:
1. How kernel allows such address to be passed to fs subsystem;
2. How fs successes to read/write at non-mapped, and in fact non-user
address.

I don't know the answer on 2'nd question, and it might be something
generic. But I investigated first problem.

The problem is that compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() uses access_ok() to
validate user address, and on arm64 it ends up with checking buffer
end against current_thread_info()->addr_limit.

current_thread_info()->addr_limit for ilp32, and most probably for
aarch32 is equal to aarch64 one, and so adress_ok() doesn't fail.
It happens because on thread creation we call flush_old_exec() to set
addr_limit, and completely ignore compat mode there.

This patch fixes it. It also fixes USER_DS macro to return different
values depending on compat.

This patch is enough to handle preadv02 and pwritev02, but problem #2
is still there.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_ilp32.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
index 7a39683..6ba4952 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ typedef struct user_fpsimd_state elf_fpregset_t;
do { \
clear_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT_AARCH64); \
clear_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT); \
+ set_fs(TASK_SIZE_64); \
} while (0)

#define ARCH_DLINFO \
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 19cfdc5..3b0dd8d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
#define KERNEL_DS (-1UL)
#define get_ds() (KERNEL_DS)

-#define USER_DS TASK_SIZE_64
+#define USER_DS TASK_SIZE
#define get_fs() (current_thread_info()->addr_limit)

static inline void set_fs(mm_segment_t fs)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c
index 5487872..2e8d9f3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
do { \
clear_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT_AARCH64); \
set_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT); \
+ set_fs(TASK_SIZE_32); \
} while (0)

#define COMPAT_ARCH_DLINFO
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_ilp32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_ilp32.c
index a934fd4..a8599c6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_ilp32.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/binfmt_ilp32.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ static void cputime_to_compat_timeval(const cputime_t cputime,
do { \
set_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT_AARCH64); \
clear_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT); \
+ set_fs(TASK_SIZE_32); \
} while (0)

#undef ARCH_DLINFO
--
2.5.0