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Jann Horn
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There have been multiple kernel vulnerabilities that permitted userspace to
pass completely unchecked pointers through to userspace accessors:
- the waitid() bug - commit 96ca579a1e ("waitid(): Add missing
access_ok() checks")
- the sg/bsg read/write APIs
- the infiniband read/write APIs
These don't happen all that often, but when they do happen, it is hard to
test for them properly; and it is probably also hard to discover them with
fuzzing. Even when an unmapped kernel address is supplied to such buggy
code, it just returns -EFAULT instead of doing a proper BUG() or at least
WARN().
Try to make such misbehaving code a bit more visible by refusing to do a
fixup in the pagefault handler code when a userspace accessor causes a #PF
on a kernel address and the current context isn't whitelisted.
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <[email protected]>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]