linux-toradex.git/mm/process_vm_access.c, branch v4.20-rc6

mm: docs: add blank lines to silence sphinx "Unexpected indentation" errors

2018-02-07T02:32:48+00:00

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516700871-22279-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: docs: fix parameter names mismatch

2018-02-07T02:32:48+00:00

There are several places where parameter descriptions do no match the
actual code.  Fix it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516700871-22279-3-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper

2018-02-07T02:32:46+00:00

There are several functions that do find_task_by_vpid() followed by
get_task_struct().  We can use a helper function instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509602027-11337-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:28+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

The APIs that are going to be moved first are:

   mm_alloc()
   __mmdrop()
   mmdrop()
   mmdrop_async_fn()
   mmdrop_async()
   mmget_not_zero()
   mmput()
   mmput_async()
   get_task_mm()
   mm_access()
   mm_release()

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: unexport __get_user_pages_unlocked()

2016-12-15T00:04:09+00:00

Unexport the low-level __get_user_pages_unlocked() function and replaces
invocations with calls to more appropriate higher-level functions.

In hva_to_pfn_slow() we are able to replace __get_user_pages_unlocked()
with get_user_pages_unlocked() since we can now pass gup_flags.

In async_pf_execute() and process_vm_rw_single_vec() we need to pass
different tsk, mm arguments so get_user_pages_remote() is the sane
replacement in these cases (having added manual acquisition and release
of mmap_sem.)

Additionally get_user_pages_remote() reintroduces use of the FOLL_TOUCH
flag.  However, this flag was originally silently dropped by commit
1e9877902dc7 ("mm/gup: Introduce get_user_pages_remote()"), so this
appears to have been unintentional and reintroducing it is therefore not
an issue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161027095141.2569-3-lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Radim Krcmar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()

2016-10-18T21:13:37+00:00

This removes the redundant 'write' and 'force' parameters from
__get_user_pages_unlocked() to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in
callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and
hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/gup: Introduce get_user_pages_remote()

2016-02-16T09:04:09+00:00

For protection keys, we need to understand whether protections
should be enforced in software or not.  In general, we enforce
protections when working on our own task, but not when on others.
We call these "current" and "remote" operations.

This patch introduces a new get_user_pages() variant:

        get_user_pages_remote()

Which is a replacement for when get_user_pages() is called on
non-current tsk/mm.

We also introduce a new gup flag: FOLL_REMOTE which can be used
for the "__" gup variants to get this new behavior.

The uprobes is_trap_at_addr() location holds mmap_sem and
calls get_user_pages(current->mm) on an instruction address.  This
makes it a pretty unique gup caller.  Being an instruction access
and also really originating from the kernel (vs. the app), I opted
to consider this a 'remote' access where protection keys will not
be enforced.

Without protection keys, this patch should not change any behavior.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: jack@suse.cz
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210154.3F0E51EA@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks

2016-01-21T01:09:18+00:00

By checking the effective credentials instead of the real UID / permitted
capabilities, ensure that the calling process actually intended to use its
credentials.

To ensure that all ptrace checks use the correct caller credentials (e.g.
in case out-of-tree code or newly added code omits the PTRACE_MODE_*CREDS
flag), use two new flags and require one of them to be set.

The problem was that when a privileged task had temporarily dropped its
privileges, e.g.  by calling setreuid(0, user_uid), with the intent to
perform following syscalls with the credentials of a user, it still passed
ptrace access checks that the user would not be able to pass.

While an attacker should not be able to convince the privileged task to
perform a ptrace() syscall, this is a problem because the ptrace access
check is reused for things in procfs.

In particular, the following somewhat interesting procfs entries only rely
on ptrace access checks:

 /proc/$pid/stat - uses the check for determining whether pointers
     should be visible, useful for bypassing ASLR
 /proc/$pid/maps - also useful for bypassing ASLR
 /proc/$pid/cwd - useful for gaining access to restricted
     directories that contain files with lax permissions, e.g. in
     this scenario:
     lrwxrwxrwx root root /proc/13020/cwd -> /root/foobar
     drwx------ root root /root
     drwxr-xr-x root root /root/foobar
     -rw-r--r-- root root /root/foobar/secret

Therefore, on a system where a root-owned mode 6755 binary changes its
effective credentials as described and then dumps a user-specified file,
this could be used by an attacker to reveal the memory layout of root's
processes or reveal the contents of files he is not allowed to access
(through /proc/$pid/cwd).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" 
Cc: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Willy Tarreau 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

process_vm_access: switch to {compat_,}import_iovec()

2015-04-12T02:27:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: gup: use get_user_pages_unlocked

2015-02-12T01:06:05+00:00

This allows those get_user_pages calls to pass FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to
the page fault in order to release the mmap_sem during the I/O.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla 
Cc: Peter Feiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds