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    usercopy: Check valid lifetime via stack depth · 2792d84e
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    One of the things that CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY sanity-checks is whether
    an object that is about to be copied to/from userspace is overlapping
    the stack at all. If it is, it performs a number of inexpensive
    bounds checks. One of the finer-grained checks is whether an object
    crosses stack frames within the stack region. Doing this on x86 with
    CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER was cheap/easy. Doing it with ORC was deemed too
    heavy, and was left out (a while ago), leaving the courser whole-stack
    check.
    
    The LKDTM tests USERCOPY_STACK_FRAME_TO and USERCOPY_STACK_FRAME_FROM
    try to exercise these cross-frame cases to validate the defense is
    working. They have been failing ever since ORC was added (which was
    expected). While Muhammad was investigating various LKDTM failures[1],
    he asked me for additional details on them, and I realized that when
    exact stack frame boundary checking is not available (i.e. everything
    except x86 with FRAME_POINTER), it could check if a stack object is at
    least "current depth valid", in the sense that any object within the
    stack region but not between start-of-stack and current_stack_pointer
    should be considered unavailable (i.e. its lifetime is from a call no
    longer present on the stack).
    
    Introduce ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER to track which architectures
    have actually implemented the common global register alias.
    
    Additionally report usercopy bounds checking failures with an offset
    from current_stack_pointer, which may assist with diagnosing failures.
    
    The LKDTM USERCOPY_STACK_FRAME_TO and USERCOPY_STACK_FRAME_FROM tests
    (once slightly adjusted in a separate patch) pass again with this fixed.
    
    [1] https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-project/issues/84
    
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Reported-by: default avatarMuhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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    v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220216201449.2087956-1-keescook@chromium.org
    v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220224060342.1855457-1-keescook@chromium.org
    v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220225173345.3358109-1-keescook@chromium.org
    v4: - improve commit log (akpm)
    2792d84e
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