Patch "ARM: 9350/1: fault: Implement copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed()" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Apr 1 02:19:51 PDT 2025


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ARM: 9350/1: fault: Implement copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed()

to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm-9350-1-fault-implement-copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 169f9102f9198b04afffa6164372a4ba4070f412 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 18:32:58 +0100
Subject: ARM: 9350/1: fault: Implement copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed()

From: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

commit 169f9102f9198b04afffa6164372a4ba4070f412 upstream.

Under PAN emulation when dumping backtraces from things like the
LKDTM EXEC_USERSPACE test[1], a double fault (which would hang a CPU)
would happen because of dump_instr() attempting to read a userspace
address. Make sure copy_from_kernel_nofault() does not attempt this
any more.

Closes: https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/497571
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202401181125.D48DCB4C@keescook/ [1]

Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Kefeng <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm/mm/fault.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@
 
 #include "fault.h"
 
+bool copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed(const void *unsafe_src, size_t size)
+{
+	unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)unsafe_src;
+
+	return addr >= TASK_SIZE && ULONG_MAX - addr >= size;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 
 /*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook at chromium.org are

queue-6.6/arm-9350-1-fault-implement-copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed.patch
queue-6.6/arm-9351-1-fault-add-cut-here-line-for-prefetch-aborts.patch



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