Re: [git pull] uaccess-related bits of vfs.git

Al Viro
2017-05-13T18:04:19Z

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:18:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > x86 actually tends to use get_user_ex/put_user_ex instead.
>
> Yes. Because anybody who *really* cared about performance will have
> converted already. The real cost has been stac/clac for a few years
> now.

On x86. Which has (not counting arch/x86/um, which definitely needs
a careful look - there __..._user() is the same as ..._user() and costly
as hell) all of 12 callers of __get_user() and 31 callers of __put_user().
More than a half of the latter - in cp_stat64() and I would at least try
and see if "convert on stack, then copy_to_user" is better for that one.
Other than that, all we have is:

arch/x86/entry/common.c:372: __get_user(*(u32 *)&regs->bp,
arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c:124: if (__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask)
arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c:275: if (__put_user(sig, &frame->sig))
arch/x86/include/asm/xen/page.h:86: return __put_user(val, (unsigned long __user *)addr);
arch/x86/include/asm/xen/page.h:91: return __get_user(*val, (unsigned long __user *)addr);
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:100: err |= __get_user(xfeatures, (__u32 *)&x->header.xfeatures);
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:115: err |= __put_user(xfeatures, (__u32 *)&x->header.xfeatures);
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:46: if (__get_user(magic2, (__u32 __user *)(fpstate + fx_sw->xstate_size))
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:66: __put_user(xsave->i387.swd, &fp->status) ||
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:67: __put_user(X86_FXSR_MAGIC, &fp->magic))
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:72: if (__get_user(swd, &fp->swd) || __put_user(swd, &fp->status))
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:72: if (__get_user(swd, &fp->swd) || __put_user(swd, &fp->status))
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:93: err |= __put_user(FP_XSTATE_MAGIC2,
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1043: if (__put_user(word, u++))
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1070: ret = __get_user(word, u++);
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:472: if (__put_user(getreg(target, pos), u++))
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:499: ret = __get_user(word, u++);
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:326: if (__put_user(sig, &frame->sig))
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:347: err |= __put_user(restorer, &frame->pretcode);
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:356: err |= __put_user(*((u64 *)&retcode), (u64 *)frame->retcode);
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:613: if (__get_user(set.sig[0], &frame->sc.oldmask) || (_NSIG_WORDS > 1
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:647: if (__get_user(uc_flags, &frame->uc.uc_flags))
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:870: if (__get_user(uc_flags, &frame->uc.uc_flags))
arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c:103: *errp = __put_user(val16, (__u16 __user *)dst);
arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c:45: if (__get_user(val16, (const __u16 __user *)src))

A bunch of strays in signal.c (extending ..._ex use might be a good idea)
xen_safe_{write,read}_ulong() (might very well break from adding access_ok() -
or be security holes; I'm not familiar enough with that code to tell) and
csum_partial_copy_{to,from}_user() - those would need to extend stac/clac
pairs already there and switch to unsafe_...

Plus several loops in ptrace - might or might not be sensitive, no idea.

Plus do_fast_syscall_32(). Might be sensitive, Andy would be the guy to
talk to, AFAICS.

> And some of the existing cases are just disgusting. There's no excuse
> for compat code or for ioctl to use the "__" versions. That seems to
> be the bulk of those uses too.

Sure.

My point is, this stuff needs looking at. Even this quick look in arch/x86
has shown several fairly different classes of that stuff, probably needing
different approaches. And that - on an architecture that had tons of TLC
around signal delivery; I'm not saying that result is optimal (asm-goto sounds
potentially useful there), but it had a lot of attention given to it...