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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/uaccess: instrument copy_from_user_nmi()
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:26:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1rbanstUTfq3tb4@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202210271155.33956B1@keescook>

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 11:58:35AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:

> I wandered around attempting to deal with in_nmi(), etc. And in
> the end just drop the attempt to cover it. It's worth noting that
> copy_from_user_nmi() exists on 1 architecture and has exactly 1
> call-site...

Yeah, back when I wrote it, it was a lot more complicated because we
could not reliably take #PF from NMI context; it did manual page-walks,
kmap_atomic()s and mempcy(). That's all fixed now and it's really mostly
a rudiment -- except for these instrumentation issues it seems.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-27 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-25 22:17 Alexander Potapenko
2022-10-26  9:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-26 18:38   ` Alexander Potapenko
2022-10-27  8:05     ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-27 18:26       ` Alexander Potapenko
2022-10-27 18:58         ` Kees Cook
2022-10-27 19:26           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2022-10-27 23:24           ` Alexander Potapenko

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