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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 00/12] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:35:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6abc8c6a-c7aa-72ec-8a4e-7dcfeb9ea09b@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeHK+xCi2MxaykYWCz9mwbOzNpjrFcHex7B-VXektNNWBT+Hw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2/26/19 9:18 AM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>> This seems like something
>> where we would ideally add an __tagged annotation (or something) to the
>> source tree and then have sparse rules that can look for missed untags.
> This has been suggested before, search for __untagged here [1].
> However there are many places in the kernel where a __user pointer is
> casted into unsigned long and passed further. I'm not sure if it's
> possible apply a __tagged/__untagged kind of attribute to non-pointer
> types, is it?
> 
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10581535/

I believe we have sparse checking __GFP_* flags.  We also have a gfp_t
for them and I'm unsure whether the sparse support is tied to _that_ or
whether it's just by tagging the type itself as being part of a discrete
address space.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-26 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-22 12:53 Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 01/12] uaccess: add untagged_addr definition for other arches Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 02/12] arm64: untag user pointers in access_ok and __uaccess_mask_ptr Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 03/12] lib, arm64: untag user pointers in strn*_user Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 04/12] mm, arm64: untag user pointers passed to memory syscalls Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 23:07   ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-26 14:41     ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 05/12] mm, arm64: untag user pointers in mm/gup.c Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 06/12] fs, arm64: untag user pointers in copy_mount_options Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 23:03   ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-26 14:35     ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 07/12] fs, arm64: untag user pointers in fs/userfaultfd.c Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 23:05   ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-26 14:39     ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-03-01 16:59       ` Catalin Marinas
2019-03-01 18:37         ` Dave Hansen
2019-03-05 17:47           ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 08/12] net, arm64: untag user pointers in tcp_zerocopy_receive Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 09/12] kernel, arm64: untag user pointers in prctl_set_mm* Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 10/12] tracing, arm64: untag user pointers in seq_print_user_ip Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 11/12] arm64: update Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 12:53 ` [PATCH v10 12/12] selftests, arm64: add a selftest for passing tagged pointers to kernel Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 15:35 ` [PATCH v10 00/12] arm64: untag user pointers passed to the kernel Szabolcs Nagy
2019-02-22 15:40   ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 16:10     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-02-26 17:00       ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-22 22:54 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-26 17:18   ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-26 17:35     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2019-02-26 23:17     ` Luc Van Oostenryck

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