arm64 test_user_copy crash on copy_from_user(uptr, kptr, size)
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Fri May 26 08:24:47 PDT 2017
A kselftest run on arm64 on an older 4.4.y stable kernel ran into an
unexpectedly trapping user space access:
[ 1277.857738] Internal error: Accessing user space memory outside
uaccess.h routines: 96000045 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Apparently the same thing happens on x86 as well, and it still happens on
the latest kernels, see https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3011
The problem here is this test
ret |= test(!copy_from_user(bad_usermem, (char __user *)kmem,
PAGE_SIZE),
"illegal reversed copy_from_user passed");
where the destination kernel pointer intentionally points into user space
memory, while copy_from_user checks the second argument for being
a valid user space, which it also is not.:
static inline unsigned long __must_check copy_from_user(void *to,
const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
{
unsigned long res = n;
kasan_check_write(to, n);
if (access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n)) {
check_object_size(to, n, false);
res = __arch_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
}
if (unlikely(res))
memset(to + (n - res), 0, res);
return res;
}
The memset here will now try to clear user space data, and the
architecture notices that the fault did not come from a proper
uaccess function.
I think this will only happen when CONFIG_ARM64_PAN,
X86_SMAP or an equivalent feature on another architecture is
enabled, otherwise we just do the access anyway. I don't have
a good idea for avoiding the problem though, other than
removing the specific test that causes it.
Arnd
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