arm64: Introduce prctl() options to control the tagged user addresses ABI

It is not desirable to relax the ABI to allow tagged user addresses into
the kernel indiscriminately. This patch introduces a prctl() interface
for enabling or disabling the tagged ABI with a global sysctl control
for preventing applications from enabling the relaxed ABI (meant for
testing user-space prctl() return error checking without reconfiguring
the kernel). The ABI properties are inherited by threads of the same
application and fork()'ed children but cleared on execve(). A Kconfig
option allows the overall disabling of the relaxed ABI.

The PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL will be expanded in the future to handle
MTE-specific settings like imprecise vs precise exceptions.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Catalin Marinas
2019-07-23 19:58:39 +02:00
committed by Will Deacon
parent 2b835e24b5
commit 63f0c60379
7 changed files with 111 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -124,6 +124,12 @@
#ifndef PAC_RESET_KEYS
# define PAC_RESET_KEYS(a, b) (-EINVAL)
#endif
#ifndef SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL
# define SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL(a) (-EINVAL)
#endif
#ifndef GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL
# define GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL() (-EINVAL)
#endif
/*
* this is where the system-wide overflow UID and GID are defined, for
@@ -2492,6 +2498,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
return -EINVAL;
error = PAC_RESET_KEYS(me, arg2);
break;
case PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL:
error = SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL(arg2);
break;
case PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL:
error = GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL();
break;
default:
error = -EINVAL;
break;