Re: [PATCH v18 15/15] selftests, arm64: add a selftest for passing tagged pointers to kernel

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Jun 24 2019 - 11:02:24 EST


On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:33:00PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> This patch is a part of a series that extends kernel ABI to allow to pass
> tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other than
> 0x00) as syscall arguments.
>
> This patch adds a simple test, that calls the uname syscall with a
> tagged user pointer as an argument. Without the kernel accepting tagged
> user pointers the test fails with EFAULT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore | 1 +
> tools/testing/selftests/arm64/Makefile | 11 +++++++
> .../testing/selftests/arm64/run_tags_test.sh | 12 ++++++++
> tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags_test.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 53 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/Makefile
> create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/run_tags_test.sh
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags_test.c
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..e8fae8d61ed6
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +tags_test
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/Makefile
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a61b2e743e99
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +# ARCH can be overridden by the user for cross compiling
> +ARCH ?= $(shell uname -m 2>/dev/null || echo not)
> +
> +ifneq (,$(filter $(ARCH),aarch64 arm64))
> +TEST_GEN_PROGS := tags_test
> +TEST_PROGS := run_tags_test.sh
> +endif
> +
> +include ../lib.mk
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/run_tags_test.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/run_tags_test.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..745f11379930
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/run_tags_test.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +echo "--------------------"
> +echo "running tags test"
> +echo "--------------------"
> +./tags_test
> +if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
> + echo "[FAIL]"
> +else
> + echo "[PASS]"
> +fi
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags_test.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..22a1b266e373
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags_test.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +#include <stdio.h>
> +#include <stdlib.h>
> +#include <unistd.h>
> +#include <stdint.h>
> +#include <sys/prctl.h>
> +#include <sys/utsname.h>
> +
> +#define SHIFT_TAG(tag) ((uint64_t)(tag) << 56)
> +#define SET_TAG(ptr, tag) (((uint64_t)(ptr) & ~SHIFT_TAG(0xff)) | \
> + SHIFT_TAG(tag))
> +
> +int main(void)
> +{
> + static int tbi_enabled = 0;
> + struct utsname *ptr, *tagged_ptr;
> + int err;
> +
> + if (prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE, 0, 0, 0) == 0)
> + tbi_enabled = 1;
> + ptr = (struct utsname *)malloc(sizeof(*ptr));
> + if (tbi_enabled)
> + tagged_ptr = (struct utsname *)SET_TAG(ptr, 0x42);
> + err = uname(tagged_ptr);
> + free(ptr);
> +
> + return err;
> +}
> --
> 2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog
>

--
Kees Cook