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Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region in dentry_cache slab cache

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 09:44:13AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 04:36:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> From: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>
> >>
> >> When a dentry name is short enough, it can be stored directly in
> >> the dentry itself.  These dentry short names, stored in struct
> >> dentry.d_iname and therefore contained in the dentry_cache slab cache,
> >> need to be coped to/from userspace.
> >>
> >> In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in
> >> the dentry_cache slab cache in which userspace copy operations
> >> are allowed.
> >>
> >> This region is known as the slab cache's usercopy region.  Slab
> >> caches can now check that each copy operation involving cache-managed
> >> memory falls entirely within the slab's usercopy region.
> >>
> >> This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
> >> whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
> >> understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
> >> mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.
> >>
> >
> > For all these patches please mention *where* the data is being copied to/from
> > userspace.
> 
> Can you explain what you mean here? The field being copied is already
> mentioned in the commit log; do you mean where in the kernel source
> does the copy happen?
> 

Yes, for the ones where it isn't obvious, mentioning a syscall or ioctl might be
sufficient.  Others may need more explanation.

Eric

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[PATCH 00/23] Hardened usercopy whitelisting Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 13/23] ufs: define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled  slabs to separate caches Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:30 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled  slabs to separate caches Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:50 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled  slabs to separate caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 00:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate  caches Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2017-06-20 22:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 00:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate  caches Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-27 09:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-28 00:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate  caches Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-28 11:00 +0200
  [PATCH 08/23] ext2: define usercopy region in ext2_inode_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 15/23] net: define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 14/23] fork: define usercopy region in thread_stack, task_struct, mm_struct slab caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 11/23] jfs: define usercopy region in jfs_ip slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 20/23] usercopy: convert kmalloc caches to usercopy caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 05/23] befs: define usercopy region in befs_inode_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be  set at build time Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:10 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be set  at build time Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 01:00 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be  set at build time Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:30 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be set  at build time Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 01:20 +0200
  [PATCH 19/23] xfs: define usercopy region in xfs_inode slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 01/23] usercopy: Prepare for usercopy whitelisting Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 03/23] vfs: define usercopy region in names_cache slab caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region in dentry_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region  in dentry_cache slab cache Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:10 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region  in dentry_cache slab cache Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-28 20:00 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region  in dentry_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-28 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH 04/23] vfs: copy struct mount.mnt_id to userspace using put_user() Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 06/23] cifs: define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 21/23] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 21/23] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy  caches to size 0 Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:10 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 21/23] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy  caches to size 0 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-28 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH 18/23] scsi: define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 02/23] usercopy: Enforce slab cache usercopy region boundaries Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 00/23] Hardened usercopy whitelisting Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2017-06-20 21:50 +0200

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