Re: [PATCH v15 05/17] arms64: untag user pointers passed to memory syscalls

Catalin Marinas
2019-05-22T11:49:23Z

On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 06:30:51PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> This patch is a part of a series that extends arm64 kernel ABI to allow to
> pass tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other
> than 0x00) as syscall arguments.
>
> This patch allows tagged pointers to be passed to the following memory
> syscalls: brk, get_mempolicy, madvise, mbind, mincore, mlock, mlock2,
> mmap, mmap_pgoff, mprotect, mremap, msync, munlock, munmap,
> remap_file_pages, shmat and shmdt.
>
> This is done by untagging pointers passed to these syscalls in the
> prologues of their handlers.

I'll go through them one by one to see if we can tighten the expected
ABI while having the MTE in mind.

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c
> index b44065fb1616..933bb9f3d6ec 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c
> @@ -35,10 +35,33 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len,
> {
> if (offset_in_page(off) != 0)
> return -EINVAL;
> -
> + addr = untagged_addr(addr);
> return ksys_mmap_pgoff(addr, len, prot, flags, fd, off >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> }

If user passes a tagged pointer to mmap() and the address is honoured
(or MAP_FIXED is given), what is the expected return pointer? Does it
need to be tagged with the value from the hint?

With MTE, we may want to use this as a request for the default colour of
the mapped pages (still under discussion).

> +SYSCALL_DEFINE6(arm64_mmap_pgoff, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len,
> + unsigned long, prot, unsigned long, flags,
> + unsigned long, fd, unsigned long, pgoff)
> +{
> + addr = untagged_addr(addr);
> + return ksys_mmap_pgoff(addr, len, prot, flags, fd, pgoff);
> +}

We don't have __NR_mmap_pgoff on arm64.

> +SYSCALL_DEFINE5(arm64_mremap, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, old_len,
> + unsigned long, new_len, unsigned long, flags,
> + unsigned long, new_addr)
> +{
> + addr = untagged_addr(addr);
> + new_addr = untagged_addr(new_addr);
> + return ksys_mremap(addr, old_len, new_len, flags, new_addr);
> +}

Similar comment as for mmap(), do we want the tag from new_addr to be
preserved? In addition, should we check that the two tags are identical
or mremap() should become a way to repaint a memory region?

> +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(arm64_munmap, unsigned long, addr, size_t, len)
> +{
> + addr = untagged_addr(addr);
> + return ksys_munmap(addr, len);
> +}

This looks fine.

> +SYSCALL_DEFINE1(arm64_brk, unsigned long, brk)
> +{
> + brk = untagged_addr(brk);
> + return ksys_brk(brk);
> +}

I wonder whether brk() should simply not accept tags, and should not
return them (similar to the prctl(PR_SET_MM) discussion). We could
document this in the ABI requirements.

> +SYSCALL_DEFINE5(arm64_get_mempolicy, int __user *, policy,
> + unsigned long __user *, nmask, unsigned long, maxnode,
> + unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, flags)
> +{
> + addr = untagged_addr(addr);
> + return ksys_get_mempolicy(policy, nmask, maxnode, addr, flags);
> +}
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(arm64_madvise, unsigned long, start,
> + size_t, len_in, int, behavior)
> +{
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> + return ksys_madvise(start, len_in, behavior);
> +}
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE6(arm64_mbind, unsigned long, start, unsigned long, len,
> + unsigned long, mode, const unsigned long __user *, nmask,
> + unsigned long, maxnode, unsigned int, flags)
> +{
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> + return ksys_mbind(start, len, mode, nmask, maxnode, flags);
> +}
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(arm64_mlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
> +{
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> + return ksys_mlock(start, len, VM_LOCKED);
> +}
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(arm64_mlock2, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
> +{
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> + return ksys_mlock(start, len, VM_LOCKED);
> +}
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(arm64_munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
> +{
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> + return ksys_munlock(start, len);
> +}
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(arm64_mprotect, unsigned long, start, size_t, len,
> + unsigned long, prot)
> +{
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> + return ksys_mprotect_pkey(start, len, prot, -1);
> +}
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(arm64_msync, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)
> +{
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> + return ksys_msync(start, len, flags);
> +}
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(arm64_mincore, unsigned long, start, size_t, len,
> + unsigned char __user *, vec)
> +{
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> + return ksys_mincore(start, len, vec);
> +}

These look fine.

> +SYSCALL_DEFINE5(arm64_remap_file_pages, unsigned long, start,
> + unsigned long, size, unsigned long, prot,
> + unsigned long, pgoff, unsigned long, flags)
> +{
> + start = untagged_addr(start);
> + return ksys_remap_file_pages(start, size, prot, pgoff, flags);
> +}

While this has been deprecated for some time, I presume user space still
invokes it?

> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(arm64_shmat, int, shmid, char __user *, shmaddr, int, shmflg)
> +{
> + shmaddr = untagged_addr(shmaddr);
> + return ksys_shmat(shmid, shmaddr, shmflg);
> +}
> +
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE1(arm64_shmdt, char __user *, shmaddr)
> +{
> + shmaddr = untagged_addr(shmaddr);
> + return ksys_shmdt(shmaddr);
> +}

Do we actually want to allow shared tagged memory? Who's going to tag
it? If not, we can document it as not supported.

--
Catalin