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Linus Torvalds 9d4583a57f x86: uaccess: don't use runtime-const rewriting in modules 
[ Upstream commit 284922f4c5 ]

The runtime-const infrastructure was never designed to handle the
modular case, because the constant fixup is only done at boot time for
core kernel code.

But by the time I used it for the x86-64 user space limit handling in
commit 86e6b1547b ("x86: fix user address masking non-canonical
speculation issue"), I had completely repressed that fact.

And it all happens to work because the only code that currently actually
gets inlined by modules is for the access_ok() limit check, where the
default constant value works even when not fixed up.  Because at least I
had intentionally made it be something that is in the non-canonical
address space region.

But it's technically very wrong, and it does mean that at least in
theory, the use of 'access_ok()' + '__get_user()' can trigger the same
speculation issue with non-canonical addresses that the original commit
was all about.

The pattern is unusual enough that this probably doesn't matter in
practice, but very wrong is still very wrong.  Also, let's fix it before
the nice optimized scoped user accessor helpers that Thomas Gleixner is
working on cause this pseudo-constant to then be more widely used.

This all came up due to an unrelated discussion with Mateusz Guzik about
using the runtime const infrastructure for names_cachep accesses too.
There the modular case was much more obviously broken, and Mateusz noted
it in his 'v2' of the patch series.

That then made me notice how broken 'access_ok()' had been in modules
all along.  Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Fix it by simply not using the runtime-const code in modules, and just
using the USER_PTR_MAX variable value instead.  This is not
performance-critical like the core user accessor functions (get_user()
and friends) are.

Also make sure this doesn't get forgotten the next time somebody wants
to do runtime constant optimizations by having the x86 runtime-const.h
header file error out if included by modules.

Fixes: 86e6b1547b ("x86: fix user address masking non-canonical speculation issue")
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Triggered-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251030105242.801528-1-mjguzik@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-11-13 15:34:36 -05:00
arch x86: uaccess: don't use runtime-const rewriting in modules 2025-11-13 15:34:36 -05:00
block blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy 2025-11-13 15:34:07 -05:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:33:42 +02:00
Documentation dpll: spec: add missing module-name and clock-id to pin-get reply 2025-11-13 15:33:59 -05:00
drivers drm/amdkfd: Fix mmap write lock not release 2025-11-13 15:34:35 -05:00
fs ceph: fix multifs mds auth caps issue 2025-11-13 15:34:35 -05:00
include scsi: ufs: core: Include UTP error in INT_FATAL_ERRORS 2025-11-13 15:34:34 -05:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:33:50 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/zctx: check chained notif contexts 2025-11-13 15:34:03 -05:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel ftrace: Fix softlockup in ftrace_module_enable 2025-11-13 15:34:32 -05:00
lib kunit: test_dev_action: Correctly cast 'priv' pointer to long* 2025-11-13 15:33:57 -05:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm: prevent poison consumption when splitting THP 2025-10-29 14:08:57 +01:00
net 9p/trans_fd: p9_fd_request: kick rx thread if EPOLLIN 2025-11-13 15:34:34 -05:00
rust mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise 2025-10-23 16:20:47 +02:00
samples ftrace/samples: Fix function size computation 2025-09-19 16:35:44 +02:00
scripts gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 2025-10-06 11:17:52 +02:00
security ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr 2025-11-13 15:34:32 -05:00
sound ASoC: meson: aiu-encoder-i2s: fix bit clock polarity 2025-11-13 15:34:35 -05:00
tools tools: lib: thermal: use pkg-config to locate libnl3 2025-11-13 15:34:35 -05:00
usr kbuild: uapi: Strip comments before size type check 2025-11-13 15:34:35 -05:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-07-17 18:37:08 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address 2025-05-22 14:29:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.57 2025-11-02 22:15:23 +09:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.