[PATCH] riscv: futex: untag the user pointer before the atomic access
Ziyi Guo
guoziyi114 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 11:43:55 PDT 2026
access_ok() checks untagged_addr(uaddr), but arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()
and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() hand the raw uaddr to the inline asm
amoswap/amoadd/.../lr.w+sc.w through the "+m" (*uaddr) operand. When the
tagged address ABI is enabled (CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_SUPM, prctl
PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL with PMLEN != 0), those two addresses differ: a
user pointer whose top PMLEN bits hold a tag passes access_ok() after
untagging, but the atomic is then performed on the still-tagged raw
address.
Supervisor-mode data accesses are not subject to the U-mode pointer
masking (that is governed by menvcfg.PMM, which the kernel does not set),
so hardware does not strip the tag for the kernel's own access. With
Sv57 and PMLEN=16 the tag bits overlap the canonical-address bits, so a
tagged pointer can name a canonical kernel virtual address (e.g. in the
linear map) whose untagged form is a valid user address. An unprivileged
process can thus make FUTEX_WAKE_OP perform an atomic read-modify-write on
an arbitrary kernel address, with the matching FUTEX_OP_CMP_* result
serving as a read oracle.
get_user()/put_user()/raw_copy_{to,from}_user() already untag the pointer
after the access_ok() check; do the same in the futex helpers so the
atomic operates on the address that was actually validated.
Fixes: 2e1743085887 ("riscv: Add support for the tagged address ABI")
Signed-off-by: Ziyi Guo <guoziyi114 at gmail.com>
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/futex.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/futex.h
index 90c86b115e00..8d80e580eec5 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser(int op, int oparg, int *oval, u32 __user *uaddr)
if (!access_ok(uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
return -EFAULT;
+ uaddr = untagged_addr(uaddr); /* FIX: operate on the checked address */
switch (op) {
case FUTEX_OP_SET:
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
if (!access_ok(uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
return -EFAULT;
+ uaddr = untagged_addr(uaddr); /* FIX: operate on the checked address */
__enable_user_access();
__asm__ __volatile__ (
--
2.34.1
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