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Commit 2a418cf3 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/uaccess: Don't leak the AC flag into __put_user() value evaluation



When calling __put_user(foo(), ptr), the __put_user() macro would call
foo() in between __uaccess_begin() and __uaccess_end().  If that code
were buggy, then those bugs would be run without SMAP protection.

Fortunately, there seem to be few instances of the problem in the
kernel. Nevertheless, __put_user() should be fixed to avoid doing this.
Therefore, evaluate __put_user()'s argument before setting AC.

This issue was noticed when an objtool hack by Peter Zijlstra complained
about genregs_get() and I compared the assembly output to the C source.

 [ bp: Massage commit message and fixed up whitespace. ]

Fixes: 11f1a4b9 ("x86: reorganize SMAP handling in user space accesses")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190225125231.845656645@infradead.org
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