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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm/usercopy: Check kmap addresses properly
Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 20:37:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220509203742.0f4adfa4004e51e66c1c9a20@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220110231530.665970-2-willy@infradead.org>

On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 23:15:27 +0000 "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> If you are copying to an address in the kmap region, you may not copy
> across a page boundary,

In the source, the destination or in both, and why may we not?

> no matter what the size of the underlying
> allocation.  You can't kmap() a slab page because slab pages always
> come from low memory.

Why not?  kmap() does

	if (!PageHighMem(page))
		addr = page_address(page);
	else
		addr = kmap_high(page);




  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-10  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-10 23:15 [PATCH 0/4] Assorted improvements to usercopy Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-01-10 23:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm/usercopy: Check kmap addresses properly Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-05-10  3:37   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-05-10 22:01     ` Kees Cook
2022-01-10 23:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/usercopy: Detect vmalloc overruns Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-01-10 23:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm/usercopy: Detect large folio overruns Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-01-31 14:28   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-10 23:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] usercopy: Remove HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2022-01-12 23:08   ` Kees Cook
2022-01-31 14:27   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-31 19:27     ` Matthew Wilcox

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