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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>,
	"Liguori, Anthony" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 05/16] mm: Allow special mappings with user access cleared
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:23:21 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ind9di66.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFw0JTRDXked3_OJ+cFx59BE18yDWOt7-ZRTzFS10zYnrg@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>> Which is why get_user_pages() _should_ enforce this.
>>
>> What use are protection keys if you can trivially circumvent them?
>
> No, we will *not* worry about protection keys in get_user_pages().
>
> They are not "security". They are a debug aid and safety against random mis-use.
>
> In particular, they are very much *NOT* about "trivially circumvent
> them". The user could just change their mapping thing, for chrissake!
>
> We already allow access to PROT_NONE for gdb and friends, very much on purpose.
>

Can you clarify this? We recently did fix read access on PROT_NONE via
gup here for ppc64 https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204021912.25974-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com

What is the expected behaviour against gup and get_user_pages for
PROT_NONE. 

Another issue is we end up behaving differently with PROT_NONE mapping
based on whether autonuma is enabled or not. For a PROT_NONE mapping we
return true with pte_protnone().

-aneesh

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-14  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-12 17:32 [patch 00/16] x86/ldt: Use a VMA based read only mapping Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 01/16] arch: Allow arch_dup_mmap() to fail Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 02/16] x86/ldt: Rework locking Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 03/16] x86/ldt: Prevent ldt inheritance on exec Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 04/16] mm/softdirty: Move VM_SOFTDIRTY into high bits Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 05/16] mm: Allow special mappings with user access cleared Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 18:00   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-12 18:05     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-12 18:06       ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-12 18:25         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-13 12:22     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-13 12:57       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-12-13 14:34         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-13 14:43           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-12-13 15:00             ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-13 15:04               ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-13 15:14         ` Dave Hansen
2017-12-13 15:32           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-13 15:47             ` Dave Hansen
2017-12-13 15:54               ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-13 18:08                 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-13 18:21                   ` Dave Hansen
2017-12-13 18:23                     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-13 18:31                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-13 18:32                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-13 18:35                     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-14  4:53                   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2017-12-13 21:50   ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-13 22:12     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-14  0:10       ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-14  0:16         ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 06/16] mm: Provide vm_special_mapping::close Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 07/16] selftest/x86: Implement additional LDT selftests Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 08/16] selftests/x86/ldt_gdt: Prepare for access bit forced Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 09/16] mm: Make populate_vma_page_range() available Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 10/16] x86/ldt: Do not install LDT for kernel threads Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:57   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 11/16] x86/ldt: Force access bit for CS/SS Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 18:03   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-12 18:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-12 18:10       ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-12 18:22         ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-12 18:29           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-12 18:41             ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 19:04               ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-12 19:05   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-12 19:26     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-19 12:10       ` David Laight
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 12/16] x86/ldt: Reshuffle code Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 13/16] x86/ldt: Introduce LDT write fault handler Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:58   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-12 18:19     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-12 18:43       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 19:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-12 19:21     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 19:51       ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-12 20:21       ` Dave Hansen
2017-12-12 20:37         ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 21:35           ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-12 21:42             ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 21:41           ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 21:46             ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 22:25             ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 14/16] x86/ldt: Prepare for VMA mapping Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 15/16] x86/ldt: Add VMA management code Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 17:32 ` [patch 16/16] x86/ldt: Make it read only VMA mapped Thomas Gleixner
2017-12-12 18:03 ` [patch 00/16] x86/ldt: Use a VMA based read only mapping Andy Lutomirski

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