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commit f232326f6966cf2a1d1db7bc917a4ce5f9f55f76 upstream. The purpose of this patch is to streamline error propagation and in particular to propagate retrieve_ptr_limit() errors for pointer types that are not defining a ptr_limit such that register-based alu ops against these types can be rejected. The main rationale is that a gap has been identified by Piotr in the existing protection against speculatively out-of-bounds loads, for example, in case of ctx pointers, unprivileged programs can still perform pointer arithmetic. This can be abused to execute speculatively out-of-bounds loads without restrictions and thus extract contents of kernel memory. Fix this by rejecting unprivileged programs that attempt any pointer arithmetic on unprotected pointer types. The two affected ones are pointer to ctx as well as pointer to map. Field access to a modified ctx' pointer is rejected at a later point in time in the verifier, and |
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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 Restructured Text 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.