[PATCH] ARM: uaccess: avoid alignment faults in copy_[from|to]_kernel_nofault

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Tue Jan 18 00:28:08 PST 2022


The helpers that are used to implement copy_from_kernel_nofault() and
copy_to_kernel_nofault() cast a void* to a pointer to a wider type,
which may result in alignment faults on ARM if the compiler decides to
use double-word or multiple-word load/store instructions.

So use the unaligned accessors where needed: when the type's size > 1
and the input was not aligned already by the caller.

Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 2df4c9a741a0 ("ARM: 9112/1: uaccess: add __{get,put}_kernel_nofault")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 36fbc3329252..32dbfd81f42a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <asm/memory.h>
 #include <asm/domain.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
 #include <asm/unified.h>
 #include <asm/compiler.h>
 
@@ -497,7 +498,10 @@ do {									\
 	}								\
 	default: __err = __get_user_bad(); break;			\
 	}								\
-	*(type *)(dst) = __val;						\
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS))		\
+		put_unaligned(__val, (type *)(dst));			\
+	else								\
+		*(type *)(dst) = __val; /* aligned by caller */		\
 	if (__err)							\
 		goto err_label;						\
 } while (0)
@@ -507,7 +511,9 @@ do {									\
 	const type *__pk_ptr = (dst);					\
 	unsigned long __dst = (unsigned long)__pk_ptr;			\
 	int __err = 0;							\
-	type __val = *(type *)src;					\
+	type __val = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)	\
+		     ? get_unaligned((type *)(src))			\
+		     : *(type *)(src);	/* aligned by caller */		\
 	switch (sizeof(type)) {						\
 	case 1: __put_user_asm_byte(__val, __dst, __err, ""); break;	\
 	case 2:	__put_user_asm_half(__val, __dst, __err, ""); break;	\
-- 
2.30.2




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