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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:21:47 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Andy
Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, Ingo
Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>, Oleg Nesterov
<oleg@...hat.com>, Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>, Yu-cheng Yu
<yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>, Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...gle.com>, Eric
Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] x86/fpu: tighten validation
of user-supplied xstate_header
On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 11:52 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
>
> Move validation of user-supplied xstate_headers into a helper
> function
> and call it from both the ptrace and sigreturn syscall paths. The
> new
> function also considers it to be an error if *any* reserved bits are
> set, whereas before we were just clearing most of them.
>
> This should reduce the chance of bugs that fail to correctly validate
> user-supplied XSAVE areas. It also will expose any broken userspace
> programs that set the other reserved bits; this is desirable because
> such programs will lose compatibility with future CPUs and kernels if
> those bits are ever used for anything. (There shouldn't be any such
> programs, and in fact in the case where the compacted format is in
> use
> we were already validating xfeatures. But you never know...)
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> Cc: Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>
> Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
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