[kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:02:50AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:00:01AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> > fs/splice.c has some, ahem, interesting uses that have been the source
>> > of nasty exploits in the past.  Converting them to use iov_iter
>> > properly would be really, really nice.  Christoph, I don't suppose
>> > you'd like to do that?
>>
>> I can take care of all the fs code including this one.
>
> I spent the afternoon hacking up where I'd like this to head.  It's
> completely untested as of now:
>
>         http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/setfs-elimination

My older time64_t syscall series has the side-effect of doing something
like this to the time-related compat handlers in kernel/compat.c. If nobody
else has started looking at removing set_fs from those, I can extract
the relevant parts from my series.

      Arnd