[PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: Allow usercopy to vcpu->arch.ctxt and arm64 debug

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Mon Oct 23 12:40:58 PDT 2017


On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 7:14 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 22/10/2017 09:44, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> However, I think it's much clearer if I
>> rewrite these to use get_user() and put_user().  v2 incoming.
>
> I'd actually prefer if you all do a trivial conversion to
> kvm_init_usercopy to begin with.  In fact, we could just change the
> default from "0, 0" to "0, sizeof (kvm_arch_vcpu)" in kvm_init.  Any
> other change can be applied after the patches are merged to Linus's
> tree, especially with KVM Forum and the merge window both coming soon.
>
> I'll send a v2 myself later this week.

Okay, which patches would you like me to carry in the usercopy
whitelisting tree for the coming merge window?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security



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