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2020-02-20mm: Avoid creating virtual address aliases in brk()/mmap()/mremap()Catalin Marinas1-2/+9
Currently the arm64 kernel ignores the top address byte passed to brk(), mmap() and mremap(). When the user is not aware of the 56-bit address limit or relies on the kernel to return an error, untagging such pointers has the potential to create address aliases in user-space. Passing a tagged address to munmap(), madvise() is permitted since the tagged pointer is expected to be inside an existing mapping. The current behaviour breaks the existing glibc malloc() implementation which relies on brk() with an address beyond 56-bit to be rejected by the kernel. Remove untagging in the above functions by partially reverting commit ce18d171cb73 ("mm: untag user pointers in mmap/munmap/mremap/brk"). In addition, update the arm64 tagged-address-abi.rst document accordingly. Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1797052 Fixes: ce18d171cb73 ("mm: untag user pointers in mmap/munmap/mremap/brk") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.4.x- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2019-08-22arm64: Define Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rstVincenzo Frascino1-0/+156
On AArch64 the TCR_EL1.TBI0 bit is set by default, allowing userspace (EL0) to perform memory accesses through 64-bit pointers with a non-zero top byte. Introduce the document describing the relaxation of the syscall ABI that allows userspace to pass certain tagged pointers to kernel syscalls. Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> Acked-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>