[PATCH] arm64: fix compat syscall return truncation
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Aug 2 09:54:23 PDT 2021
On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 11:42:00AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Due to inconsistencies in the way we manipulate compat GPRs, we have a
> few issues today:
>
> * For audit and tracing, where error codes are handled as a (native)
> long, negative error codes are expected to be sign-extended to the
> native 64-bits, or they may fail to be matched correctly. Thus a
> syscall which fails with an error may erroneously be identified as
> failing.
>
> * For ptrace, *all* compat return values should be sign-extended for
> consistency with 32-bit arm, but we currently only do this for
> negative return codes.
>
> * As we may transiently set the upper 32 bits of some compat GPRs while
> in the kernel, these can be sampled by perf, which is somewhat
> confusing. This means that where a syscall returns a pointer above 2G,
> this will be sign-extended, but will not be mistaken for an error as
> error codes are constrained to the inclusive range [-4096, -1] where
> no user pointer can exists.
>
> To fix all of these, we must consistently use helpers to get/set the
> compat GPRs, ensuring that we never write the upper 32 bits of the
> return code, and always sign-extend when reading the return code. This
> patch does so, with the following changes:
>
> * We re-organise syscall_get_return_value() to always sign-extend for
> compat tasks, and reimplement syscall_get_error() atop. We update
> syscall_trace_exit() to use syscall_get_return_value().
>
> * We consistently use syscall_set_return_value() to set the return
> value, ensureing the upper 32 bits are never set unexpectedly.
>
> * As the core audit code currently uses regs_return_value() rather than
> syscall_get_return_value(), we special-case this for
> compat_user_mode(regs) such that this will do the right thing. Going
> forward, we should try to move the core audit code over to
> syscall_get_return_value().
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Reported-by: He Zhe <zhe.he at windriver.com>
> Reported-by: weiyuchen <weiyuchen3 at huawei.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
(to the best of my knowledge, I can't guarantee all cases have been
covered)
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