[PATCH v21 1/2] signal: define the SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS bit in sa_flags

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Fri Nov 20 18:22:58 EST 2020


Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com> writes:

> Architectures that support address tagging, such as arm64, may want to
> expose fault address tag bits to the signal handler to help diagnose
> memory errors. However, these bits have not been previously set,
> and their presence may confuse unaware user applications. Therefore,
> introduce a SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS flag bit in sa_flags that a signal
> handler may use to explicitly request that the bits are set.
>
> The generic signal handler APIs expect to receive tagged addresses.
> Architectures may specify how to untag addresses in the case where
> SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS is clear by defining the arch_untagged_si_addr
> function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com>
> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I16dd0ed2081f091fce97be0190cb8caa874c26cb
> ---
> To be applied on top of:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git signal-for-v5.11

I have merged this first patch into signal-for-v5.11 and pushed
everything out to linux-next.

Eric


>  include/linux/signal.h                 | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/signal_types.h           |  2 +-
>  include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h |  3 +++
>  kernel/signal.c                        | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
> index b256f9c65661..205526c4003a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/signal.h
> +++ b/include/linux/signal.h
> @@ -469,4 +469,18 @@ struct seq_file;
>  extern void render_sigset_t(struct seq_file *, const char *, sigset_t *);
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifndef arch_untagged_si_addr
> +/*
> + * Given a fault address and a signal and si_code which correspond to the
> + * _sigfault union member, returns the address that must appear in si_addr if
> + * the signal handler does not have SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS enabled in sa_flags.
> + */
> +static inline void __user *arch_untagged_si_addr(void __user *addr,
> +						 unsigned long sig,
> +						 unsigned long si_code)
> +{
> +	return addr;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  #endif /* _LINUX_SIGNAL_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/signal_types.h b/include/linux/signal_types.h
> index a7887ad84d36..68e06c75c5b2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/signal_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/signal_types.h
> @@ -78,6 +78,6 @@ struct ksignal {
>  
>  #define UAPI_SA_FLAGS                                                          \
>  	(SA_NOCLDSTOP | SA_NOCLDWAIT | SA_SIGINFO | SA_ONSTACK | SA_RESTART |  \
> -	 SA_NODEFER | SA_RESETHAND | __ARCH_UAPI_SA_FLAGS)
> +	 SA_NODEFER | SA_RESETHAND | SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS | __ARCH_UAPI_SA_FLAGS)
>  
>  #endif /* _LINUX_SIGNAL_TYPES_H */
> diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h
> index c790f67304ba..fe929e7b77ca 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/signal-defs.h
> @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
>   * so this bit allows flag bit support to be detected from userspace while
>   * allowing an old kernel to be distinguished from a kernel that supports every
>   * flag bit.
> + * SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS exposes an architecture-defined set of tag bits in
> + * siginfo.si_addr.
>   *
>   * SA_ONESHOT and SA_NOMASK are the historical Linux names for the Single
>   * Unix names RESETHAND and NODEFER respectively.
> @@ -41,6 +43,7 @@
>  /* 0x00000100 used on sparc */
>  /* 0x00000200 used on sparc */
>  #define SA_UNSUPPORTED	0x00000400
> +#define SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS	0x00000800
>  /* 0x00010000 used on mips */
>  /* 0x01000000 used on x86 */
>  /* 0x02000000 used on x86 */
> diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
> index 8f34819e80de..26018c59821d 100644
> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -2524,6 +2524,26 @@ static int ptrace_signal(int signr, kernel_siginfo_t *info)
>  	return signr;
>  }
>  
> +static void hide_si_addr_tag_bits(struct ksignal *ksig)
> +{
> +	switch (siginfo_layout(ksig->sig, ksig->info.si_code)) {
> +	case SIL_FAULT:
> +	case SIL_FAULT_MCEERR:
> +	case SIL_FAULT_BNDERR:
> +	case SIL_FAULT_PKUERR:
> +		ksig->info.si_addr = arch_untagged_si_addr(
> +			ksig->info.si_addr, ksig->sig, ksig->info.si_code);
> +		break;
> +	case SIL_KILL:
> +	case SIL_TIMER:
> +	case SIL_POLL:
> +	case SIL_CHLD:
> +	case SIL_RT:
> +	case SIL_SYS:
> +		break;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig)
>  {
>  	struct sighand_struct *sighand = current->sighand;
> @@ -2761,6 +2781,10 @@ bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig)
>  	spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
>  
>  	ksig->sig = signr;
> +
> +	if (!(ksig->ka.sa.sa_flags & SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS))
> +		hide_si_addr_tag_bits(ksig);
> +
>  	return ksig->sig > 0;
>  }



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