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From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "James Houghton" <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 09/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on more user accesses without an mm
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:00:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-185774@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261026215226.3713941-10-jthoughton@google.com>

> Several generic user access paths don't go through the copy helpers
> that check for a NULL current->mm. Add the uaccess_without_mm() check to
> them as well, so that they warn and fail without attempting the access:
> 
>  - __scoped_user_access_begin(), covering scoped_user_*_access() and
>    get_user_inline()/put_user_inline() on all architectures, including
>    when masked user access is used.
>  - strnlen_user().
>  - check_zeroed_user().
>  - The iov_iter user copy routines that call into architecture-specific
>    helpers: copy_to_user_iter_mc() (copy_mc_to_user()),
>    copy_from_user_iter_nocache() (copy_from_user_inatomic_nontemporal()),
>    copy_from_user_iter_flushcache() (copy_from_user_flushcache()) and
>    zero_to_user_iter() (clear_user()).
> 
> Only check for a NULL mm here rather than using uaccess_should_fail(),
> so as not to start injecting failures in these paths.
> 
> Paths implemented entirely by architectures, e.g. get_user(),
> put_user(), clear_user(), and direct users of user_access_begin() or
> masked_user_access_begin(), are still not covered.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues.

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  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-26 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-26 21:52 [RFC PATCH 00/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on user accesses when current->mm is NULL James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 01/10] scsi: bsg: Don't copy sense data to user memory when canceled James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:17   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-27  2:41   ` Jens Axboe
2026-10-27 17:52     ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 02/10] btrfs: Don't copy encoded read " James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:06   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-27  2:42   ` Jens Axboe
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 03/10] bpf: Fail sleepable user copy helpers when current->mm is NULL James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:59   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 22:30   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-27 18:50     ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 04/10] stacktrace: Don't unwind the user stack without an mm James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:59   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 22:30   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-26 22:55     ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 05/10] perf/core: " James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:58   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-27 11:09   ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-10-27 17:45     ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 06/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on user copies when current->mm is NULL James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:08   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 22:42   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-26 23:41     ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 07/10] uaccess: Fail user nofault helpers quietly " James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:11   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 08/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on __copy_from_user_inatomic() without an mm James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:05   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 22:30   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-26 22:41     ` James Houghton
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 09/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on more user accesses " James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:00   ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-10-26 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] uaccess: Move the NULL mm warning out of line James Houghton
2026-10-26 22:02   ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-26 23:02   ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-26 23:51     ` James Houghton
2026-10-27  0:12 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] uaccess: Refuse and warn on user accesses when current->mm is NULL Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-27 10:33   ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-27 17:29   ` James Houghton
2026-10-27 18:32     ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-10-27 21:18       ` Sean Christopherson
2026-10-27 23:17       ` James Houghton
2026-10-28 23:13         ` Arnd Bergmann

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