Re: [PATCH 0/7] test_user_copy improvements

[James Hogan]

Hi Andrew,

On 05/08/15 16:48, James Hogan wrote:
> These patches extend the test_user_copy test module to handle lots more
> cases of user accessors which architectures can override separately, and
> in particular those which are important for checking the MIPS Enhanced
> Virtual Addressing (EVA) implementations, which need to handle
> overlapping user and kernel address spaces, with special instructions
> for accessing user address space from kernel mode.
> 
> - Checking that kernel pointers are accepted when user address limit is
>   set to KERNEL_DS, as done by the kernel when it internally invokes
>   system calls with kernel pointers.
> - Checking of the unchecked accessors (which don't call access_ok()).
>   Some of the tests are special cased for EVA at the moment which has
>   stricter hardware guarantees for bad user accesses than other
>   configurations.
> - Checking of other sets of user accessors, including the inatomic user
>   copies, copy_in_user, clear_user, the user string accessors, and the
>   user checksum functions, all of which need special handling in arch
>   code with EVA.
> 
> Tested on MIPS with and without EVA, and on x86_64.

Could you drop these patches for -mm for the moment please. I'll get a
v2 to fix the build problems out tomorrow now.

Cheers
James

> 
> James Hogan (7):
>   test_user_copy: Check legit kernel accesses
>   test_user_copy: Check unchecked accessors
>   test_user_copy: Check __clear_user()/clear_user()
>   test_user_copy: Check __copy_in_user()/copy_in_user()
>   test_user_copy: Check __copy_{to,from}_user_inatomic()
>   test_user_copy: Check user string accessors
>   test_user_copy: Check user checksum functions
> 
>  lib/test_user_copy.c | 221 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 221 insertions(+)
> 
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

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