RE: [PATCH 2/2] time/namespace: Forbid timens page faults under kthread_use_mm()

[David Laight]

From: Thomas Gleixner
> Sent: 30 November 2022 00:08
....
> >> None of those VDSO (user space) addresses are subject to be faulted in
> >> by anything else than the associated user space task(s).
> >
> > Are you saying that it's not possible or that it doesn't happen when
> > userspace is well-behaved?
> 
> My subconcious self told me that a kthread won't do that unless it's
> buggered which makes the vdso fault path the least of our problems, but
> thinking more about it: You are right, that there are ways that the
> kthread ends up with a vdso page address.... Bah!
> 
> Still my point stands that this is not a timens VDSO issue, but an issue
> of: kthread tries to fault in a VDSO page of whatever nature.

Isn't there also the kernel code path where one user thread
reads data from another processes address space.
(It does some unusual calls to the iov_import() functions.)
I can't remember whether it is used by strace or gdb.
But there is certainly the option of getting to access
an 'invalid' address in the other process and then faulting.

ISTR not being convinced that there was a correct check
for user/kernel addresses in it either.

	David

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