[PATCH 4/4] arm64/syscalls: Move address limit check in loop

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Thu Sep 7 08:30:47 PDT 2017


From: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie at google.com>

A bug was reported on ARM where set_fs might be called after it was
checked on the work pending function. ARM64 is not affected by this bug
but has a similar construct. In order to avoid any similar problems in
the future, the addr_limit_user_check function is moved at the beginning
of the loop.

Fixes: cf7de27ab351 ("arm64/syscalls: Check address limit on user-mode return")
Reported-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez at nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
index c45214f8fb54..0bdc96c61bc0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
@@ -751,10 +751,10 @@ asmlinkage void do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs,
 	 */
 	trace_hardirqs_off();
 
-	/* Check valid user FS if needed */
-	addr_limit_user_check();
-
 	do {
+		/* Check valid user FS if needed */
+		addr_limit_user_check();
+
 		if (thread_flags & _TIF_NEED_RESCHED) {
 			schedule();
 		} else {
-- 
2.7.4




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