On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 04:03:38PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 4:02 PM Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com wrote:
The summary of our internal discussions (mostly between kernel developers) is that we can't properly describe a user ABI that covers future syscalls or syscall extensions while not all syscalls accept tagged pointers. So we tweaked the requirements slightly to only allow tagged pointers back into the kernel *if* the originating address is from an anonymous mmap() or below sbrk(0). This should cover some of the ioctls or getsockopt(TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE) where the user passes a pointer to a buffer obtained via mmap() on the device operations.
(sorry for not being clear on what Vincenzo's proposal implies)
OK, I see. So I need to make the following changes to my patchset AFAIU.
- Make sure that we only allow tagged user addresses that originate
from an anonymous mmap() or below sbrk(0). How exactly should this check be performed?
I don't think we should perform such checks. That's rather stating that the kernel only guarantees that the tagged pointers work if they originated from these memory ranges.
- Allow tagged addressed passed to memory syscalls (as long as (1) is
satisfied). Do I understand correctly that this means that I need to locate all find_vma() callers outside of mm/ and fix them up as well?
Yes (unless anyone as a better idea or objections to this approach).
BTW, I'll be off until the new year, so won't be able to follow up.