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    Subject[032/146] x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the
    2.6.38-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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    userspace address limit

    From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

    commit 26afb7c661080ae3f1f13ddf7f0c58c4f931c22b upstream.

    As reported in BZ #30352:

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30352

    there's a kernel bug related to reading the last allowed page on x86_64.

    The _copy_to_user() and _copy_from_user() functions use the following
    check for address limit:

    if (buf + size >= limit)
    fail();

    while it should be more permissive:

    if (buf + size > limit)
    fail();

    That's because the size represents the number of bytes being
    read/write from/to buf address AND including the buf address.
    So the copy function will actually never touch the limit
    address even if "buf + size == limit".

    Following program fails to use the last page as buffer
    due to the wrong limit check:

    #include <sys/mman.h>
    #include <sys/socket.h>
    #include <assert.h>

    #define PAGE_SIZE (4096)
    #define LAST_PAGE ((void*)(0x7fffffffe000))

    int main()
    {
    int fds[2], err;
    void * ptr = mmap(LAST_PAGE, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
    MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
    assert(ptr == LAST_PAGE);
    err = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds);
    assert(err == 0);
    err = send(fds[0], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
    perror("send");
    assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
    err = recv(fds[1], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, MSG_WAITALL);
    perror("recv");
    assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
    return 0;
    }

    The other place checking the addr limit is the access_ok() function,
    which is working properly. There's just a misleading comment
    for the __range_not_ok() macro - which this patch fixes as well.

    The last page of the user-space address range is a guard page and
    Brian Gerst observed that the guard page itself due to an erratum on K8 cpus
    (#121 Sequential Execution Across Non-Canonical Boundary Causes Processor
    Hang).

    However, the test code is using the last valid page before the guard page.
    The bug is that the last byte before the guard page can't be read
    because of the off-by-one error. The guard page is left in place.

    This bug would normally not show up because the last page is
    part of the process stack and never accessed via syscalls.

    Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305210630-7136-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

    ---
    arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +-
    arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S | 4 ++--
    2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

    --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
    +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
    @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
    * Returns 0 if the range is valid, nonzero otherwise.
    *
    * This is equivalent to the following test:
    - * (u33)addr + (u33)size >= (u33)current->addr_limit.seg (u65 for x86_64)
    + * (u33)addr + (u33)size > (u33)current->addr_limit.seg (u65 for x86_64)
    *
    * This needs 33-bit (65-bit for x86_64) arithmetic. We have a carry...
    */
    --- a/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
    +++ b/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
    @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ ENTRY(_copy_to_user)
    addq %rdx,%rcx
    jc bad_to_user
    cmpq TI_addr_limit(%rax),%rcx
    - jae bad_to_user
    + ja bad_to_user
    ALTERNATIVE_JUMP X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD,copy_user_generic_unrolled,copy_user_generic_string
    CFI_ENDPROC
    ENDPROC(_copy_to_user)
    @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ ENTRY(_copy_from_user)
    addq %rdx,%rcx
    jc bad_from_user
    cmpq TI_addr_limit(%rax),%rcx
    - jae bad_from_user
    + ja bad_from_user
    ALTERNATIVE_JUMP X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD,copy_user_generic_unrolled,copy_user_generic_string
    CFI_ENDPROC
    ENDPROC(_copy_from_user)



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